Central category: 1451 books
by Gladys M. Francis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression examines the methods through which the works of French Caribbean women resist hedonistic conceptions of pleasure, “art for art’s sake” aestheticism, and commodification through representations of “uglified” spaces, transgressive...
Writing through the Visual and Virtual
Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean interrogates conventional notions of writing. The contributors—whose disciplines include anthropology, art history, education, film, history, linguistics, literature, performance...
The Caribbean Novel since 1945
Cultural Practice, Form, and the Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The Caribbean Novel Since 1945 offers a comparative analysis of fiction from across the pan-Caribbean, exploring the relationship between literary form, cultural practice, and the nation-state. Engaging with the historical and political impact of capitalist imperialism, decolonization, class struggle,...
Migrant Revolutions
Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism interprets Haitian literature in a transnational context of anti-colonial_and anti-globalization_politics. Positing a materialist and historicized account of Haitian literary modernity, it traces the themes of slavery, labor...
by Lee Jamison
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
THINK YOU KNOW SPANISH? Think again! The moment you land in Nicaragua you will be bombarded with words, phrases, and sayings typical of the country's creative-minded inhabitants. What does it all mean? Come with us on a thrilling adventure through 200 of the most common expressions. And learn some...
Mario Vargas Llosa
A Collection of Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
The Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has been acclaimed throughout the literary world as one of Latin America's finest writers, yet until recently little has been written about his work in English. While his work has the subject of an increasing flow of critical commentary in Spanish and his major novels...
The Eyes That Have Cried
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
The Eyes That Have Cried is a true, first-person account of survival in a land torn by war.
Teresa Cortez is a young girl living in El Salvador in the 1980s. The Salvadoran Civil War produces no winners and is a tragedy in which neither side can claim moral high ground. The government uses...
by Joao Cabral De Melo Neto
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Imagine making poems the way an architect designs buildings or an engineer builds bridges. Such was the ambition of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Though a great admirer of the thing-rich poetries of Francis Ponge and of Marianne Moore, what interested him even more, as he remarked in his acceptance speech...
Rootedness
The Ramifications of a Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth—and nations—from which they came. In Rootedness, Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of the root—surfacing often in an unexpected variety...
The Américas Award
Honoring Latino/a Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
First awarded in 1993, the Américas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean or the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural-international...
Xuxub Must Die
The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2004
Today, foreigners travel to the Yucatan for ruins, temples, and pyramids, white sand beaches and clear blue water. One hundred years ago, they went for cheap labor, an abundance of land, and the opportunity to make a fortune exporting cattle, henequen fiber, sugarcane, or rum. Sometimes they found...
Les seigneurs d'Aryana
Nomades contrebandiers d’Afghanistan
Language: French
Release Date: August 16, 2016
À la rencontre d’un monde millénaire décimé par les décennies de guerreAfghanistan, mai 1968. Jean et Danielle Bourgeois parviennent, après de longues semaines de recherches, à approcher une caravane de nomades pachtouns. Au péril de leur vie, car ils ont rencontré de farouches contrebandiers,...
Strength Through Peace
How Demilitarization Led to Peace and Happiness in Costa Rica, and What the Rest of the World can Learn From a Tiny, Tropical Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized. Its military was abolished in 1948, with the keys to the armory handed to the Department of Education. Socially, Costa Rica is a success story. Although 94th in the world for GDP, it is in the top 10...
Journey to Lhasa
The Diary of a Spy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In 1874, the brilliant civil engineer Sarat Chandra Das was recruited by the British as a spy in Darjeeling. The Empire wanted to train local agents to gather in-depth intelligence about Tibet—a mysterious kingdom closed off to all outsiders for years—in order to consolidate their position in...