Central America category: 775 books
Travels in a Thin Country
A Journey Through Chile
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral...
The Art of Transition
Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2001
The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what...
by Oran Burke
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
“The captain had lost control of his spittle, which landed on my face as he spoke. He was also dribbling a bit. Plainclothes-man was trying to shout over the captain while the younger policeman just sat there smiling drunkenly, sporadically pointing at his lapel and saying ‘Politsia’. ...
Machado de Assis
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil’s greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive English-language examination of Machado since Helen Caldwell’s...
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...
by José Victorino Lastarria
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2000
Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--José Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of nineteenth-century Chilean and Spanish American culture,...
The Generation of '72
Latin America's Forced Global Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Caught between the well-worn grooves the Boom and the Gen-X have left on the Latin American literary canon, the writing intellectuals that comprise what the Generation of '72 have not enjoyed the same editorial acclaim or philological framing as the literary cohorts that bookend them. In sociopolitical...
José Carlos Mariátegui’s Unfinished Revolution
Politics, Poetics, and Change in 1920s Peru
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Comprising six full-length chapters, a comprehensive Introduction and Conclusion, this monograph is extensive in scale and scope. It provides fresh readings of key writings of Mariátegui, one of Latin America’s most important and revolutionary political, cultural and aesthetic theorists, through...
by João Capistrano de Abreu
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the...
Lima Barreto
New Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis...
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 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...
Masculinity after Trujillo
The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
"Provides an insightful look at the persistent power of masculinism in Dominican post-dictatorship politics and literature."--Ignacio López-Calvo, author of God and Trujillo "The ideas about masculinization of power developed by Horn are important not only to Dominican scholarship...
The Moral Electricity of Print
Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women's Circuit, 1876-1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section
Moral electricity—a term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society. This concept...