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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...

Traveling to a spanish speaking country or would you just like to learn the basics of spanish. This is a little pocket book for your basic spanish translation needs from greetings, hotel accommodations to the weather and seasons. This trusty handbook also have worksheets and lessons so that you won't...

Critical essays by the Nobel Prize winner on writers from Solzhenitsyn to Sartre.   Poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide...

Rewriting The Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Négritude male writers from the...

“I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice.” So notes Salman Rushdie in his first work of nonfiction, a book as imaginative and meaningful as his acclaimed novels. In The...

From theesteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex threads of Colombia’s cocaine wars or assess the...

From reviews of the first edition: "A compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest...writer of fantasy. With a keen appreciation of Borges himself and a pleasant disregard for the critical clichs, Bell-Villada tells us all we really want to know about the modern master-from pronouncing...

On the eastern border of Guatemala and Honduras, pilgrims and travelers flock to the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a large statue carved from wood depicting Christ on the cross. The Catholic shrine, built in the late sixteenth century, has become the focal point of admiration and adoration from New...

Redactado en 1938 y revisado en 1956, el cuerpo de estas notas se hallaba inédito. El mayor valor de este texto es que presenta una faceta poco conocida del polígrafo: su genuino interés en los avances científicos de su tiempo y su capacidad para entender y proyectar su valor y alcance. Para Alfonso...

Evodio Escalante, reconocido crítico literario e investigador de la literatura mexicana, presenta seis ensayos en los que se develan los símbolos literarios de José Revueltas y sus fuentes más trascendentes. En esta cuarta edición de José Revueltas: una literatura "del lado moridor"...

"Estamos ante un estudio riguroso y creativo de una obra mayor del siglo XX. No sólo se adentra en los entresijos de la escritura del novelista colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, sino que extrae de ella penetrantes iluminaciones para el presente. Su autora señala el hecho de que Cien años...

Estas páginas nos ofrecen un retrato nuevo de la obra de Xavier Villaurrutia, al tiempo que forman un mural grupal de los Contemporáneos.

Este libro ofrece un amplio y minucioso recorrido por las multifacéticas aproximaciones de José Carlos Mariátegui al arte y la literatura de las primeras décadas del siglo XX. Además de realizar una clara y sistemática exposición de la profusa y cosmopolita producción intelectual del autor...

El lector tiene entre manos un libro que va de lo general a lo particular; de las visiones panorámicas de la literatura venezolana del siglo XX a los análisis de obras específicas. Rafael Arráiz Lucca estudia los géneros literarios en su trayectoria cronológica y, también, aborda sus desarrollos...