Central South American category: 593 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In the 1960s, there occurred amongst Latin American writers a sudden explosion of literary activity known as the ‘Boom’. It marked an increase in the production and availability of innovative and experimental novels. But the ‘Boom’ of the 1960s should not be taken as the only flowering of...
The Voice of the Masters
Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
By one of the most original and learned critical voices in Hispanic studies— a timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature.An ideology is implicit in modern Latin American literature, argues Roberto González Echevarría,...
After-Dinner Conversation
The Diary of a Decadent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, Jos Asuncin Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de sicle novels and the first one to be translated into English. Perhaps the single best work for...
Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones
Illuminating Gender and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Latino/a literature is one of the fastest developing fields in the discipline of literary studies. It represents an identity that is characterized by fluidity and diversity, often explored through divisions formed by language, race, gender, sexuality, and immigration.
The Routledge Companion...
Rubén Darío and the Romantic Search for Unity
The Modernist Recourse to Esoteric Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Modernism was the major Spanish American literary movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Leader of that influential movement was Rubén Darío, the Nicaraguan now recognized as one of the most important Hispanic poets of all time. Like the Romantics in England and the Symbolists...
The Passage of Literature
Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer are writers renowned for crafting narratives of great technical skill that resonate with potent truths on the colonial condition. Yet given the generational and geographical boundaries that separated them, they are seldom considered in conjunction...
Contracultura
Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that...
by Raymond Leslie Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century. Indeed, the desire...
Gregory Rabassa's Latin American Literature
A Translator's Visible Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
This book is a critical study of the work of Gregory Rabassa, translator of such canonical novels as Gabriel Garcìa Márquez's Cien años de soledad, José Lezama Lima's Paradiso, and Julio Cortàzar's Rayuela. During the past five decades, Rabassa has translated over fifty Latin American novels...
Ambivalent Desires
Representations of Modernity and Private Life in Colombia (1890s-1950s)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Ambivalent Desires: Representations of Modernity and Private Life in Colombia (1890s-1950s) is a literary and cultural study of the reception of modernity in Colombia. Unlike previous studies of Latin American modernization, which have usually focused on the public aspect of the process, this book...
by Isaías Peña Gutiérrez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2015
La ficción literaria y los textos elaborados a partir de hechos reales se hermanan en este libro al proponer, cada una desde su óptica y recursos particulares, una mirada sobre el mismo material: las cosas ya ocurridas, la historia, en el campo del arte literario. Fruto de la larga trayectoria de...
Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century
Textual Disruptions
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Has poetry lost its relevance in the postmodern age, unable to keep pace with other forms of cultural production such as film, mass media, and the Internet? Quite the contrary, argues Jill Kuhnheim in this pathfinding book, which explores how recent Spanish American poetry participates in the fundamental...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This volume takes an important step toward the discovery of a common critical heritage that joins the diverse literatures of North America and Latin America. Traditionally, literary criticism has treated the literature of the Americas as “New World” literature, examining it in relation to its...