Central South American category: 593 books
Nuevo álbum de zoología
Dibujos de Francisco Toledo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 28, 2014
El Bestiario, es decir el libro que reúne versos o poemas en prosa sobre animales, es una de las tradiciones ancestrales de la poesía. El antecedente más remoto que conocemos es el Physiologus que data de los primeros siglos de nuestra era. Nuevo álbum de zoología continúa esta línea...
Searching for Mr. Chin
Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
What do twentieth-century fictional images of the Chinese reveal about the construction of nationhood in the former West Indian colonies? In her groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Searching for Mr. Chin, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy seeks to map and understand a cultural process of identity formation: “Chineseness”...
by José de Alencar
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2000
Jose de Alencar's prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a classic of Brazilian literature--perhaps the most widely-known piece of fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar;s many works. Set in the sixteenth century, it is an extremely romantic portrayal of a doomed live...
The Marrano Specter
Derrida and Hispanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
The Marrano Specter pursues the reciprocal influence between Jacques Derrida and Hispanism. On the one hand, Derrida’s work has engendered a robust conversation among philosophers and critics in Spain and Latin America, where his work circulates in excellent translation, and where many of the terms...
Beyond Windrush
Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of émigré novelists based in postwar London, a group often referred to as "the Windrush writers" in tribute to the SS Empire Windrush,...
by Guillermina De Ferrari
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intellectual engagement. However, no significant change took place at the political level. In Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba, De Ferrari...
Escribir por ejemplo
De los inventores de la tradición
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Carlos Monsiváis eligió la célebre línea de Pablo Neruda, Escribir, por ejemplo, como punto de partida y premisa para reunir diez textos dedicados a algunos de los creadores con quienes se siente en deuda como lector. De esto resultaron dos crónicas, referidas a Jaime Sabines y José Revueltas,...
Las esencias viajeras
Hacia una crónica cultural del Bicentenario de la Independencia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Este gran ensayo que publican el Conaculta y el FCE es el último libro que escribió Carlos Monsiváis (1938-2010) y representa la suma de sus trabajos y reflexiones. Su tema: las semejanzas culturales que nos permiten hablar de Latinoamérica como una idea compartida. En nuestras sociedades, el...
The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination
Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Philip Kaisary shows how twentieth-century writers, artists, and intellectuals—through a range of genres and languages—understood and reinvented the birth of the world's first independent black republic: Haiti.
Clear Word and Third Sight
Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2003
Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated...
by Jorge Luis Borges
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 12, 2013
“Yo vivo, yo me dejo vivir, para que Borge pueda tramar su literatura y esa literatura me justifica”. —De “Borges y yo”
Considerado por el mismo Borges como su libro más personal, El hacedor explora la relación entre el mundo interior y exterior del artista, el misterioso espacio...
Thiefing Sugar
Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
In Thiefing Sugar, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley explores the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers, revealing in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women. She takes the book’s title from Dionne Brand’s novel In Another Place, Not Here, where eroticism between women...
Caliban's Voice
The Transformation of English in Post-Colonial Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
In Shakespeare’s Tempest, Caliban says to Miranda and Prospero:
"...you taught me language, and my profit on’t
Is, I know how to curse. "
With this statement, he gives voice to an issue that lies at the centre of post-colonial studies....
Comidas bastardas
Gastronomía, tradición e identidad en América Latina
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
En este mundo globalizado de migraciones e hibridaciones, la comida no solo es un conjunto de alimentos sino además, la propia acción de comer o la reunión de personas en torno a, implica una mezcla de culturas, sabores, pero también de rituales y costumbres.