Central South American category: 593 books
by Guadalupe Martí-Peña
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Entre los mltiples modos de acercarse a un autor tan polifactico y prolfico como el escritor peruano Mario Vargas Llosa, quien gan el premio Nobel de 2010, Guadalupe Mart-Pea ha elegido ver al novelista como ilusionista. Estudia ese mundo de fantasas y ensueos, ese campo de guerra aparentemente inofensivo...
La Primera Classe
Tránsitos de la Literatura Brasileña en el Extranjero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 14, 2014
¿Qué piensa y hace un profesor ?ya sea brasileño o no? al verse por primera vez delante de un grupo de estudiantes «extranjeros» para hablar sobre literatura brasileña? Aparentemente simple, la pregunta que sirve de punto de partida para los ensayos reunidos en este libro abre camino a una...
María Teresa Gramuglio. La exigencia crítica.
Quince ensayos y una entrevista
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2014
María Teresa Gramuglio es hoy una de las más destacadas críticas literarias y culturales de la Argentina. Beatriz Sarlo, Hilda Sabato, Nora Catelli, Adrián Gorelik, entre sus colegas más próximos, y parte de sus discípulos, todos profesores en distintas universidades del país y del extranjero,...
La última broma de Juan Luis Martínez
No sólo ser otro sino escribir la obra de otro
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Este libro es un breve informe tal como sería deseable que todos lo fueran sobre un hallazgo de incuestionable importancia para la poesía chilena en general y, en particular, para los estudios martinianos.
by Alberto Giordano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Cuando se piensa en la forma del ensayo, la crítica busca hacer legibles los interrogantes que plantea la existencia de lo literario (¿cómo decir lo irrepetible?, ¿cómo ponerse a salvo de los estereotipos?) y proyectarlos sobre el entramado de las prácticas y las instituciones culturales, para...
by Julio Scherer García
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Antología de tres entrevistas que hiciera el periodista Julio Scherer a Octavio Paz: "Suma y sigue", "Tela de juicios" y "El valor del tiempo", y el ensayo de Julio Scherer sobre el último encuentro que tuvo con el poeta, titulado "Un testimonio". Es un texto...
Historia de la literatura gay en la argentina
Representaciones sociales de la homosexualidad masculina en la ficción literaria
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
¿Qué es la literatura gay o literatura homosexual? ¿Es la literatura gay la escrita por escritores/as gay? ¿O es la literatura que trata el tema de la homosexualidad? ¿O se requieren ambos requisitos para pertenecer al género? ¿Es obligación ético-política de un/a escritor/a gay/lesbiana...
by Paula Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
The Terror and the Time contributes to the ongoing project of mapping the myriad ways in which contemporary individual and social scenarios and suffering are rooted in unresolved traumas bequeathed by the origins of the new World societies of the Caribbean. This study traces legacies of enforced and...
by Clarice Lispector
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1996
"Clarice Lispector was a born writer....she writes with sensuous verve, bringing her earliest passions into adult life intact, along with a child's undiminished capacity for wonder."—The New York Times Book Review
"In 1967, Brazil's leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer...
The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives
Exploring the Self and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Drawing on narratives from Martinique by Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, Ina Césaire, and Patrick Chamoiseau, among others, Christina Kullberg shows how these writers turn to ethnography—even as they critique it—as an exploration and expression of the self. They acknowledge its tradition as...
Contemporary Mexican Women Writers
Five Voices
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Mexican women writers have moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and 1980s are Maria Luisa Puga, Silvia Molina, Brianda Domecq, Carmen Boullosa, and Angeles Mastretta. Sharing a range of affinities while maintaining...
Spirit Possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou Thought
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
This book offers the expert of Haitian studies new perspectives on the imbricated relationship between Caribbean, francophone, and French studies. It also offers the reader unfamiliar with Haiti a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of twentieth and early twenty-first century Haitian thought, including...
Caribbean Critique
Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Caribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel,...
Staging Creolization
Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian argues that late-twentieth-century plays by French Caribbean women writers dramatize and enact creolization—the process of cultural transformation through mixing and conflict that occurred in the context of the legacies of slavery and colonialism.