Central South American category: 593 books
Machado de Assis and Female Characterization
The Novels
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that Machado had a particular interest in female characterization and that his fictional women became increasingly sophisticated and complex as he matured and developed...
Afro-Greeks
Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Afro-Greeks examines the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean, from about 1920 to the beginning of the 21st century. Emily Greenwood focuses on the ways in which Greco-Roman antiquity has been put to creative use in Anglophone Caribbean literature, and relates this regional classical...
by Rubén Darío, Alfonso García Morales, Alberto Paredes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Este volumen concentra los quince primeros cuentos de Rubén Darío, escritos entre 1881 y 1889 y nunca incluidos en libros sino sólo publicadas en periódicos. La edición y el estudio estuvieron a cargo de Alberto Paredes, mientras que el prólogo lo escribió Alfonso García Morales. Retrato del...
Un escritor en la tierra
Centenario de José Revueltas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Un escritor en la tierra presenta diecinueve ensayos que muestran una lectura apasionada de la obra de José Revueltas. Releer a uno de los más grandes escritores mexicanos del siglo pasado con los ojos críticos de ahora es el propósito que busca este libro y para lograrlo reúne algunas de las...
by Lynne Macedo
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
This is Dabydeen's academic works which comprises a series of interviews. In it he tackles the controversial aspects of race, ethnicity and "belonging".
Vodou in the Haitian Experience
A Black Atlantic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and...
Neoliberal Bonds
Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Fernando A. Blanco’s Neoliberal Bonds: Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature analyzes the sociocultural processes that have reshaped subjectivities in post-Pinochet Chile. By creatively exploring the intersections among memory, gender, post-trauma, sociology, psychoanalysis, and neoliberalism,...
Poetics of the Antilles
Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than...
by Gladys M. Francis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression examines the methods through which the works of French Caribbean women resist hedonistic conceptions of pleasure, “art for art’s sake” aestheticism, and commodification through representations of “uglified” spaces, transgressive...
Writing through the Visual and Virtual
Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean interrogates conventional notions of writing. The contributors—whose disciplines include anthropology, art history, education, film, history, linguistics, literature, performance...
The Caribbean Novel since 1945
Cultural Practice, Form, and the Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The Caribbean Novel Since 1945 offers a comparative analysis of fiction from across the pan-Caribbean, exploring the relationship between literary form, cultural practice, and the nation-state. Engaging with the historical and political impact of capitalist imperialism, decolonization, class struggle,...
Migrant Revolutions
Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism interprets Haitian literature in a transnational context of anti-colonial_and anti-globalization_politics. Positing a materialist and historicized account of Haitian literary modernity, it traces the themes of slavery, labor...
Mario Vargas Llosa
A Collection of Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
The Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has been acclaimed throughout the literary world as one of Latin America's finest writers, yet until recently little has been written about his work in English. While his work has the subject of an increasing flow of critical commentary in Spanish and his major novels...
by Joao Cabral De Melo Neto
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Imagine making poems the way an architect designs buildings or an engineer builds bridges. Such was the ambition of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Though a great admirer of the thing-rich poetries of Francis Ponge and of Marianne Moore, what interested him even more, as he remarked in his acceptance speech...