Central South American category: 593 books
Connecting Histories
Francophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands scholarly attention. Its authors treat the traumatic legacies of shared and personal histories pervading...
How to Cook a Tapir
A Memoir of Belize
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In 1962 Joan Fry was a college sophomore recently married to a dashing anthropologist. Naively consenting to a year-long “working honeymoon” in British Honduras (now Belize), she soon found herself living in a remote Kekchi village deep in the rainforest. Because Fry had no cooking or housekeeping...
Exotic Nations
Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil assimilated and subverted European images of an "exotic" New World to create new literatures that asserted...
The Merchant of Havana
The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
LAJSA Book Award Winner, 2017, Latin American Jewish Studies Association
As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, an epochal realignment of the social order occurred. In this period of change, two seemingly disparate, yet nevertheless intertwined, ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism...
by William Childers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda. William Childers sets out to free Cervantes' work from its context within the histories of the European national literatures. Instead,...
Auto/Biography across the Americas
Transnational Themes in Life Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas—whether chosen or forced—motivates the ways in which identities...
by Steven Boldy
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Juan Rulfo, 1917-1986, is one of the three greatest writers of twentieth-century Mexico together with Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz. A Companion to Juan Rulfo is the most comprehensive modern study of Rulfo. The first sections situate his life and work in the historical and political context of the...
by Pedro Henríquez Ureña
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Miguel D. Mena, editor de las "Obras completas de Pedro Henríquez Ureña" nos comenta: «"En la orilla: gustos y colores" No es seguramente una obra mayor. Buena parte ya había sido publicada [...] en revistas de España, México, Argentina, Cuba, Costa Rica y la República Dominicana. Son textos...
by Elizabeth Hernández Alvídrez, Samuel Arriarán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2014
De acuerdo con los autores de este libro, el análisis literario se replantea en América Latina a partir de la problemática de la diversidad cultural. Estamos ante una nueva generación de escritores que pugna por expresarse y que merece ser analizada e investigada ¿será que en la narrativa mexicana...
Idiomas espectrales
Lenguas imaginarias en la literatura latinoamericana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Idiomas espectrales: Lenguas imaginarias en la literatura latinoamericana es un acercamiento original a la presencia de lenguas inventadas en la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX. Desde un enfoque que vincula exégesis literaria con crítica cultural y reflexión teórica con estudio de las...
Afro-Cuban Religious Experience
Cultural Reflections in Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands....
by Inês Amorim, Vincent Barletta, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
Portuguese Literature and the Environment explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from Medieval times to the present. From the centrality of nature in Medieval poetry, through the bucolic verse of the Renaissance, all the way to the Romantic and post-Romantic nostalgia...
Direct Democracy
Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Winner of a 2018 C. L. R. James Award for a Published Book for Academic or General Audiences from the Working-Class Studies Association
Beginning with the Haitian Revolution, Scott Henkel lays out a literary history of direct democracy in the Americas. Much research considers direct democracy...
by Diana Sorensen Goodrich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Domingo F. Sarmiento's classic 1845 essay Facundo, Civilizacion y Barbarie opened an inquiry into the nature of Argentinian culture that continues to the present day. In this elegantly written study, Diana Sorensen Goodrich explores the varied, and often conflicting, readings that Facundo has received...