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Spirit Possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou Thought
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
This book offers the expert of Haitian studies new perspectives on the imbricated relationship between Caribbean, francophone, and French studies. It also offers the reader unfamiliar with Haiti a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of twentieth and early twenty-first century Haitian thought, including...
Caribbean Critique
Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Caribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel,...
Staging Creolization
Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian argues that late-twentieth-century plays by French Caribbean women writers dramatize and enact creolization—the process of cultural transformation through mixing and conflict that occurred in the context of the legacies of slavery and colonialism.
by Andrés Bello
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1998
Andrés Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major role in shaping the national identities of...
Machado de Assis and Female Characterization
The Novels
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that Machado had a particular interest in female characterization and that his fictional women became increasingly sophisticated and complex as he matured and developed...
Unraveling the Real
The Fantastic in Spanish-American Ficciones
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
In literary and cinematic fictions, the fantastic blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. Lacking a consensus on definition, critics often describe the fantastic as supernatural, or similar to, but quite different from fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism.
In Unraveling the Real...
Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States
Interviews with Contemporary Writers
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This collection of interviews demonstrates that U.S. Latinas/os of South American background have contributed pioneering work to U.S. Latina/o literature and culture in the twenty-first century. In conversation with twelve significant authors of South American descent in the United States, Juanita...
Sites of Disquiet
The Non-Space in Spanish American Short Narratives and Their Cinematic Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Some of the most important writers of the twentieth century, including Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, and García Márquez, have explored ambiguous sites of a disquieting nature. Their characters face merging perspectives, deferral, darkness, or emptiness. Such a space is neither a site of projection (as...
by Eva Krutein
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Eva’s story continues half a world away in this vivid sequel to "Eva’s War." After World War II, Eva and her husband Manfred are preparing to leave the scars and devastation of post-war Germany behind to begin an exciting new adventure in sunny, beautiful Chile. Even as Eva steps off the plane,...
Afro-Greeks
Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Afro-Greeks examines the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean, from about 1920 to the beginning of the 21st century. Emily Greenwood focuses on the ways in which Greco-Roman antiquity has been put to creative use in Anglophone Caribbean literature, and relates this regional classical...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Kyrghyzstan Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Kazakhastan Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
by Octavio Paz
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Nobel Prize–winner Octavio Paz offers a dazzling mind journey to the sources of poetry. Poet, diplomat, writer, philosopher, hailed as an “intellectual literary one-man band” by the New York Times Book Review, Nobel Prize–winner Octavio Paz was a key figure in the Latin American Literary Renaissance...
by Maible Matrishon
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2013
Have you ever thought about escaping to your own Caribbean island? Maybe dreamt of spending your days in the delicious tropical heat, swimming with sea creatures of every sort? Perhaps imagined eating tasty Caribbean fare and indulging in thick, cold smoothies bursting with flavourful local fruit?...