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by José de Alencar
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2000
Jose de Alencar's prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a classic of Brazilian literature--perhaps the most widely-known piece of fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar;s many works. Set in the sixteenth century, it is an extremely romantic portrayal of a doomed live...
The Maya
The Story of a People
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Definitively tracing the evolution of the Maya civilization from the arrival of migrating 'first peoples' to the end of the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican World with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century AD. A span of some thousands of years are concisely covered in one volume in a thorough study...
Cinema and Inter-American Relations
Tracking Transnational Affect
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America since the onset of the Good Neighbor policy (1933). Pérez Melgosa analyzes the evolution...
Latina Performance
Traversing the Stage
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999
Latina Performance is a densely theorized treatment of rich materials." —MultiCultural Review
Arrizón's important book revolves around the complex issues of identity formation and power relations for US women performers of Latin American descent." —Choice
Latina Performance examines...
The Marrano Specter
Derrida and Hispanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
The Marrano Specter pursues the reciprocal influence between Jacques Derrida and Hispanism. On the one hand, Derrida’s work has engendered a robust conversation among philosophers and critics in Spain and Latin America, where his work circulates in excellent translation, and where many of the terms...
Beyond Windrush
Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of émigré novelists based in postwar London, a group often referred to as "the Windrush writers" in tribute to the SS Empire Windrush,...
by Danny Méndez
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and...
by Guillermina De Ferrari
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intellectual engagement. However, no significant change took place at the political level. In Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba, De Ferrari...
Writing to Cuba
Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and books. Collaborating with military movements known as filibusters, this generation of exiled writers created a body of literature demanding Cuban independence...
by Erica Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos Islands are a small archipelago of islands belonging to Ecuador in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The islands are quite remote and isolated, lying some 1000 km (620 miles) west of the South American continent. The Galapagos...
Escribir por ejemplo
De los inventores de la tradición
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Carlos Monsiváis eligió la célebre línea de Pablo Neruda, Escribir, por ejemplo, como punto de partida y premisa para reunir diez textos dedicados a algunos de los creadores con quienes se siente en deuda como lector. De esto resultaron dos crónicas, referidas a Jaime Sabines y José Revueltas,...
Las esencias viajeras
Hacia una crónica cultural del Bicentenario de la Independencia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Este gran ensayo que publican el Conaculta y el FCE es el último libro que escribió Carlos Monsiváis (1938-2010) y representa la suma de sus trabajos y reflexiones. Su tema: las semejanzas culturales que nos permiten hablar de Latinoamérica como una idea compartida. En nuestras sociedades, el...
The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination
Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Philip Kaisary shows how twentieth-century writers, artists, and intellectuals—through a range of genres and languages—understood and reinvented the birth of the world's first independent black republic: Haiti.
Clear Word and Third Sight
Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2003
Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated...