Central South American category: 593 books
by Scott Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Juan Luis Martínez’s Philosophical Poetics is an interdisciplinary study of collage/assemblage art and poetry by the most infamous and hermetic member of the Chilean neo-avant-garde literary scene. This comprehensive study of cult figure Juan Luis Martínez (1942–1993) takes a comparative approach...
Pariah in the Desert
The Heroic and the Monstrous in Horacio Quiroga
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This is the first book in English on Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay 1878-Argentina 1937), a canonical author whose works are read by all advanced students of Spanish in the US and many other countries. The study examines Quiroga’s work through the theoretical lens of the heroic—a lens elaborated in...
The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora
Transatlantic Musings
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia, and capturing diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at political...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
These interdisciplinary essays on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries not only highlight the early origins and transnationality of the genre but also expand it beyond the iconic and ubiquitous examples.
Culture and Revolution
Violence, Memory, and the Making of Modern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In the twenty years of postrevolutionary rule in Mexico, the war remained fresh in the minds of those who participated in it, while the enigmas of the revolution remained obscured. Demonstrating how textuality helped to define the revolution, Culture and Revolution examines dozens of seemingly ahistorical...
Dude Lit
Mexican Men Writing and Performing Competence, 1955–2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
How did men become the stars of the Mexican intellectual scene? Dude Lit examines the tricks of the trade and reveals that sometimes literary genius rests on privileges that men extend one another and that women permit.
The makings of the “best” writers have to do with superficial aspects,...
Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution
Rebels in the Literary Imagination of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The 1910 Mexican Revolution saw Francisco "Pancho" Villa grow from social bandit to famed revolutionary leader. Although his rise to national prominence was short-lived, he and his followers (the villistas) inspired deep feelings of pride and power amongst the rural poor. After the Revolution...
The Learned Ones
Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
They were the healers, teachers, and writers, the “wise ones” of Nahuatl-speaking cultures in Mexico, remembered in painted codices and early colonial manuscripts of Mesoamerica as the guardians of knowledge. Yet they very often seem bound to an unrecoverable past, as stereotypes prevent some...
Imperial Eyes
Travel Writing and Transculturation
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years. The Brazilian je ne sais quoi has captivated the French from their first encounter, and the ingenuity à francesa of French artistic and scholarly movements has intrigued Brazilians...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This volume sheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves deep into the borderlands, an uncharted in-between space located outside fixed geographic, cultural, and ideological bounds. Prevalent throughout many interviews...
Chimeras of Form
Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914–2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
In the years following World War I, the “international” emerged as a distinct scale of political and cultural focus. Internationalisms proliferated in kind as writers and thinkers sought to imagine modes of cooperation that would balance transnational solidarities with national sovereignty. While...
Bodies and Bones
Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
In Bodies and Bones, Tanya Shields argues that a repeated engagement with the Caribbean’s iconic and historic touchstones offers a new sense of (inter)national belonging that brings an alternative and dynamic vision to the gendered legacy of brutality against black bodies, flesh, and bone. Using...
by Evelyn O'Callaghan, Alison Donnell, Maria McGarrity
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
This collection explores how the complications and contradictions of Irish-Caribbean relations are much richer and deeper than previously recognized. Caribbean Irish Connections makes an important contribution to Irish studies by challenging the dominance of a US diasporic history and a disciplinary...