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by Cathy L. Jrade
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Modernismo arose in Spanish American literature as a confrontation with and a response to modernizing forces that were transforming Spanish American society in the later nineteenth century. In this book, Cathy L. Jrade undertakes a full exploration of the modernista project and shows how it provided...
Essays on Hilda Hilst
Between Brazil and World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
This book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English. It brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America’s most inventive and innovative authors. Nine essays by scholars and translators reflect about various aspects of her work,...
Gabriel García Márquez
Solitude and Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1993
Much good criticism of Mrquez came in the wake of One Hundred Years of Solitude and the perception of his fiction has been dominated by that novel. It seemed the implicit goal to which the earlier fiction has been striving. By concentrating on the later novels, including The General in his Labyrinth,...
Sexual Textualities
Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Since the 1991 publication of his groundbreaking book Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing, David William Foster has proposed a series of theoretical and critical principles for the analysis of Latin American culture from the perspectives of the queer. This book continues that project...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
In recent decades, the international recognition of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez has placed Colombian writing on the global literary map. A History of Colombian Literature explores the genealogy of Colombian poetry and prose from the colonial period to the present day. Beginning with a...
Mission to Tibet
The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri S. J.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Mission to Tibet recounts the fascinating eighteenth-century journey of the Jesuit priest ippolito Desideri (1684 - 1733) to the Tibetan plateau. The italian missionary was most notably the first european to learn about Buddhism directly with Tibetan schol ars and monks - and from a profound study...
Who Counts?
The Mathematics of Death and Life After Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economic exploitation, and disenfranchisement, as well as in Mayan revitalization and grassroots environmental struggles. In the aftermath of thirty-six years of...
Counterfeit Politics
Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
In Counterfeit Politics, David Kelman reassesses the political significance of conspiracy theory. Traditionally, political theory has sought to banish the “paranoid style” from the “proper” domain of politics. But if conspiracy theory lies outside the sphere of legitimate politics, why do...
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...
Letters to My Mother
A Message of Love, A Plea for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
On December 1, 2007, during the arrest of several guerillas in Bogotá, the Colombian police confiscated a short video clip of political hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Accompanying the video was a twelve-page letter, dated October 24, 2007, written by Betancourt to her mother and family.
Kidnapped...
The Art of Political Murder
Who Killed the Bishop?
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
In this New York Times Notable Book, an award-winning writer undertakes his own investigation into the murder of a Guatemalan bishop.
Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post Book World*, the* Chicago Tribune*, the* Economist*, and the* San Francisco Chronicle
Two days after...
Cuba on the Verge
12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the Country
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Spanning politics and art, music and baseball, Cuba on the Verge is a timely look at a society’s profound transformation—from inside and out
Change looms in Cuba.
Just ninety miles from United States shores yet inaccessible to most Americans until recently, Cuba fascinates as much...
Sparrow and the Hawk
Costa Rica and the United States during the Rise of Jose Figueres
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Using Costa Rica as a example, Longley carefully examines the development of the successful relationship between a nonindustrialized country and the United States, revealing the complex forces at work in resistance and accommodation.
During World War II and the immediate postwar era, both...