Central South American category: 593 books
Textual Exposures
Photography in Twentieth Century Latin American Narrative Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations, and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated in fictional...
American Imperialism's Undead
The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
As modern Caribbean politics and literature emerged in the first half of the twentieth century, Haiti, as the region's first independent state, stood as a source of inspiration for imagining decolonization and rooting regional identity in Africanness. Yet at precisely the same moment that anticolonialism...
The Specter of Races
Latin American Anthropology and Literature between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the early twentieth century thanks to the work of European and Latin American anthropologists.
Broken Souths
Latina/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Broken Souths offers the first in-depth study of the diverse field of contemporary Latina/o poetry. Its innovative angle of approach puts Latina/o and Latin American poets into sustained conversation in original and rewarding ways. In addition, author Michael Dowdy presents ecocritical readings that...
Postmodern Parody in Latin American Literature
The Paradox of Ideological Construction and Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book examines postmodern parody in Latin American literature as the intersection between ideology construction and deconstruction. Parody’s chief task is to deconstruct and criticize the ideologies behind previous texts. During this process, new ideologies are inevitably constructed. However,...
Quince Duncan's Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors
Two Novels of Afro-Costa Rican Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Quince Duncan is one of the most significant yet understudied Black writers in the Americas. A third-generation Afro-Costa Rican of West Indian heritage, he is the first novelist of African descent to tell the story of Jamaican migration to Costa Rica. Duncan’s work has been growing in popularity...
by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Ernesto Guevara Che
Revolución cubana
Raúl Castro Tercer mundo Movimiento 26 de Julio Guerra de guerrillas Ernesto Guevara Lynch José de la Serna
España
Cantabria
Virreinato del Río de la Plata
Provincia de Misiones Montecarlo (Misiones)...
by Fernando Sorrentino, Clark M. Zlotchew
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
These wide-ranging conversations have an exceptionally open and intimate tone, giving us a personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature.
Interviewer Fernando Sorrentino, an Argentinian writer and anthologist, is endowed with literary acumen, sensitivity,...
The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas
New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic "Colombia," after Columbus,...
Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector
The Différance of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Driven by an unfulfilled desire for the unattainable, ultimately indefinable Other, the protagonists of the novels and stories of acclaimed Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector exemplify and humanize many of the issues central to poststructuralist thought, from the nature of language, truth, and meaning...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Roberto Bolaño as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of international interest, such as the rise of rightwing and neofascist movements during the...
by Gerald Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez.
Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary...
by Seymour Menton
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Beginning with the 1979 publication of Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra, the New Historical Novel has become the dominant genre within Latin American fiction. In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity...
Writing across Cultures
Narrative Transculturation in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments...