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Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction
The Impact of Feminism and Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Current scholarship on Latin American historical fiction has failed to take feminism and postcolonialism into account. This study uses these important contemporary discourses as a starting point for a new definition of the Latin American historical novel that includes national identity, magical realism, historical intertextuality, and symbolism.
Arguedas / Vargas Llosa
Dilemmas and Assemblages
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
An English-language translation of the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and LASA Premio Iberoamericano award-winning Spanish-language book, Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa. Dilemas y ensamblajes, Mabel Moraña offers the first comparative study of two of contemporary Latin America's central literary figures: Mario Vargas Llosa and Jose Maria Arguedas.
Poetry After the Invention of América
Don’t Light the Flower
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book...
New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative
Post-National Literatures and the Canon
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe and North and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide answers to the environmental crisis. Diverse ecocritical perspectives add new meaning to the novels, short stories, drama, poetry, films, and documentaries analyzed in this timely and engaged collection.
Received Medievalisms
A Cognitive Geography of Viennese Women’s Convents
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women's role and agency.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
How can we understand consumption in a region known for its cultural richness and vast inequalities? What do Latin Americans consume, and why? Examining topics from tango and samba to sex workers in Costa Rica, from eating tamales to selling ice in the Andes, and from building and moving houses to...
Marx and Engels's "German ideology" Manuscripts
Presentation and Analysis of the "Feuerbach chapter"
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Since the 1920s, scholars have promoted a set of manuscripts, long abandoned by Marx and Engels, to canonical status in book form as The German Ideology, and in particular its 'first chapter,' known as 'I. Feuerbach.' Part one of this revolutionary study relates in detail the political history through...
Modernist Impersonalities
Affect, Authority, and the Subject
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality.
A Vision of Modern Science
John Tyndall and the Role of the Scientist in Victorian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
An examination of a pivotal moment in the history of science through the career and cultural impact of the historically neglected Victorian physicist John Tyndall, establishing him as an important figure of the period, whose scientific discoveries and philosophy of science in society are still relevant today.
by Richard Henry
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
The mutually energizing and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson - unexplored in depth by scholars until this study - was one of the last century s remarkable political alliances. Both Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt shared a view of politics as a moral enterprise,...
Popular Sovereignty and Constituent Power in Latin America
Democracy from Below
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book combines a bottom-up and top-down approach to the study of social movements in relationship to the development of constituent and constituted power in Latin America. The contributors to this volume argue that the radical transformation of liberal representative democracy into participative...
by K. Chatterjee
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
This book tells the story of how Shari'ati developed a language of political Islam, speaking in an idiom intelligible to the Iranian public and subverting the Shah's regime and its claim to legitimacy.
Peace-building in Israel and Palestine
Social Psychology and Grassroots Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
This book presents an overview of psycho-social research on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, presents and analyzes people-to-people activities in the region, and offers new conceptualizations for Israeli-Palestinian co-creation of a grassroots peace and social justice processes.