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Colonial Habits
Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 1999
In Colonial Habits Kathryn Burns transforms our view of nuns as marginal recluses, making them central actors on the colonial stage. Beginning with the 1558 founding of South America’s first convent, Burns shows that nuns in Cuzco played a vital part in subjugating Incas, creating a creole elite,...
by Peter Richard Dreyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Isacq is fiction based on the early life of the author's direct ancestor Johannes Augustinus Dreyer (1689–1759). Commencing with a long flashback from the Cape of Good Hope in 1738, it novelizes his adventures in the five years from 1708, when he was a student at the University of Rostock, to 1713,...
Exploring Southern Appalachian Forests
An Ecological Guide to 30 Great Hikes in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
This unique hiking guide to the southern Appalachian mountains leads readers to explore the rich forest ecosystems and other natural communities visitors encounter along the trail. Drawing on years of experience guiding forest walks throughout the region, Steph Jeffries and Tom Wentworth invite hikers...
The Things That Fly in the Night
Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the soucouyant, or Old Hag—an aged woman by day who sheds her skin during night’s darkest hours in order...
by Alejandro Eduardo Fiadone
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
This stunning collection of 284 rare designs is a bonanza for artists and craftspeople seeking distinctive patterns with a South American Indian flavor. The carefully adapted, authentic motifs include animal and totemic designs, geometric and rectilinear figures, abstracts, grids, and many other styles in a wide range of shapes and sizes.
by Ned Brown, Gately Willams
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Inspired by the legendary work of Slim Aarons, a photographic narrative tour of a beautiful, unique, historical city and the remarkable people who live there.
Author Ned Brown kicks off the Good Life series with the story about what makes Charleston, South Carolina so desirable to its residents...
Borges's Poe
The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Edgar Allan Poe’s image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the Río de la Plata region of South America—Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. In Borges’s Poe, Emron Esplin...
Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre
Thumri Lyrics
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. This fascination with the musical genre still prevails in the twenty-first century.
Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre examines Thumri Lyrics, a...
Postcolonial Biology
Psyche and Flesh after Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Although the body has been a vast subject for postcolonial studies, few theorists have attempted to go beyond the simple mixing of races in examining the impact of colonialism on the colonized body. However, as Deepika Bahri argues, it is essential to see the postcolonial body in a variety of forms:...
The Postsecular Imagination
Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked...
by Ellen Boccuzzi
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With the acceleration of global migration, literature by migrant writers has emerged as a powerful medium for describing the ways in which global forces are experienced at the personal level. Migrant literature offers a compelling counter‐narrative to abstract visions of globalization, grounding...
The New Charleston Chef's Table
Extraordinary Recipes From the Heart of the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Immerse Yourself in the Eclectic and Growing Food Scene of Charleston!
From roadside dives to upscale eateries, Southern to Chinese, Holly Herrick leaves no stone unturned as she winnows Charleston’s restaurants down to her top picks. From fried chicken to shrimp and grits, The New Charleston...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This collection of essays brings together leading experts on the history of Black women in Brazil and newly expands what we know about the subject. The essays take us through cities, plantations, and mining areas from the north to the south and across the eighteenth, nineteenth, and first decades...
Latin America in the Post-Ch?vez Era
The Security Threat to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Hugo Ch?vez passed away in March 2013 after a two-year battle with cancer, prompting much speculation about the impact of his death. What will a post-Ch?vez future look like, not only in Venezuela but also in the region? In Latin America in the Post-Ch?vez Era, Luis Fleischman examines Ch?vezÆs highly...