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by Nicholas Gill
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Frommer’s books aren’t written by committee, or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done. We use seasoned journalists like Nicholas Gill has been covering Panama for over a decade and has strong opinions on what travelers should do in country
and...
Dave and Susie's Big Adventure: Part 2
Around the World by 4WD
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
Part 2 of Dave and Susie's Big Adventure tells the story of our intrepid travellers' return to New Zealand after their daring drive to England via Australia, South East Asia, China, Kazakhstan, Russia and the EU. Not content to merely ship their Toyota Surf home, they elect instead to ship it to Buenos...
Uncivil Wars
Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national...
by Alfonso Reyes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Alfonso Reyes funda su doctrina en el hombre, en la situación y en el destino de este en el universo, por ello se interesa en su pasado y en su presente, defendiendo en muchos de sus textos el papel de América en el concierto de la cultura universal. En este libro se recorren ideas, consejos, el...
Fiesta of Sunset
The Peace Corps, Guatemala and a Search for Truth
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
A recollection of memories that can only be understood through the imperfection of time ... a memoir about learning, being wrong just as many times as right, and growing as a constant process. A piece of life in words ... a revealing, honest work.
Celia Peris-Peris, PhD
Men who voted for George...
Keeper of the Mountains: The Elizabeth Hawley Story
The Elizabeth Hawley Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Beginning in 1946, Elizabeth Hawley worked for Fortune magazine as a researcher. Shortly thereafter, she left both her job and the United States itself to travel the world, and thus began her lifelong attraction to the exotic and remote sovereign state of Nepal. In the years that followed, she began...
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...
La Malinche in Mexican Literature
From History to Myth
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Of all the historical characters known from the time of the Spanish conquest of the New World, none has proved more pervasive or controversial than that of the Indian interpreter, guide, mistress, and confidante of Hernán Corts, Doa Marina—La Malinche—Malintzin. The mother of Corts's son, she...
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...
Creole Indigeneity
Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous...
Western Sahara
The Refugee Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
The Western Sahara is the last colony in Africa and the only Spanish-speaking territory in the Arab World. When in 1975 the agonising Francoist Spain abandoned hastily its colony, Morocco and Mauritania occupied the territory, despite the protest of the UN and the resistance of a nascent Saharawi...
Interiors and Narrative
The Spatial Poetics of Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, and Leopoldo Alas
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Interiors and Narrative shows how crucial interiors are for our understanding of the nature of narrative. A growing cultural fascination with interior dwelling so prevalent in the late nineteenth century parallels an intensification of the rhetorical function interior architecture plays in the development...
by Edna M. Rodríguez-Plate
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando...
Modernism and Latin America
Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century. Drawing on comparative, historical, and postcolonial reading strategies (including archival research), it seeks to reenergize the study of modernism by...