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Eric Williams and the Anticolonial Tradition
The Making of a Diasporan Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
In the first full-length treatment of Eric Williams as an intellectual, Maurice St. Pierre shows how the former prime minister's experiences in Trinidad and England radicalized him, leading him both to challenge colonial exploitation of Trinbagonians and to work to educate and mobilize them in the struggle for independence.
by Richard F. Patteson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Antoni's work reflects on the nature of human consciousness and its relationship to language, culture and storytelling itself.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
In Spain, the two hundred years that elapsed between the beginning of the early modern period and the final years of the Habsburg Empire saw a profusion of works written by women. Whether secular or religious, noble or middle class, early modern Spanish women actively composed creative works such...
Edwidge Danticat
A Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
An accessible guide and primary resource for general readers, students, and critics alike, this collection of essays on Edwidge Danticat is the first book devoted to her work, and it encompasses the whole corpus, not only Danticat's novels and short fiction but also her travel writing and her writing for children.
The Storyworld Accord
Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
“Storyworlds,” mental models of context and environment within which characters function, is a concept used to describe what happens in narrative. Narratologists agree that the concept of storyworlds best captures the ecology of narrative interpretation by allowing a fuller appreciation of the...
Writing from the Hearth
Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
If space is important in the realm of imagination and a key theme in feminist theory, cross-cultural studies of social maps reveal that men and women's spatial experiences differ; women rarely control physical or social space directly. Positing the thesis that women's writing of Francophone Africa...
Receptions of the Classics in the African Diaspora of the Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds
Atlantis Otherwise
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Atlantis Otherwise expands the study of the African diaspora by focusing on postcolonial literary expressions from Latin America and Africa. The book studies the presence of classical references in texts written by writers (black and non-black) who are committed to the articulation of the fragmented...
The Generation of '72
Latin America's Forced Global Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Caught between the well-worn grooves the Boom and the Gen-X have left on the Latin American literary canon, the writing intellectuals that comprise what the Generation of '72 have not enjoyed the same editorial acclaim or philological framing as the literary cohorts that bookend them. In sociopolitical...
Multiple Modernities
Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgos’s pivotal place in Spanish feminist history by bringing together eminent international scholars who offer new readings of Burgos’s work. It includes the analyses of a number of lesser-known texts, both fictional and non-fictional, which give...
Latin American Women Dramatists
Theater, Texts, and Theories
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1999
The book highlights the many possibilities of the innovative work of these dramatists, and this will, it is to be hoped, help the editors to achieve one of their other key goals: productions of the plays in English." —Times Literary Supplement
This thoughtfully crafted book with its insightful...
by Aníbal González
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Latin American Literary Boom was marked by complex novels steeped in magical realism and questions of nationalism, often with themes of surreal violence. In recent years, however, those revolutionary projects of the sixties and seventies have given way to quite a different narrative vision and...
The Noé Jitrik Reader
Selected Essays on Latin American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2005
The Argentine scholar Noé Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarship but also for his wit. This volume is the first to make available in English a selection of his most influential writings. These sparkling translations...
Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature
Literary and Cultural Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
In their comprehensive study Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature: Literary and Cultural Essays, editors Jesús Rosales and Vanessa Fonseca provide a fresh set of perspectives on the field of Chicano literary and cultural studies. Composed of essays by scholars who live and work in the United...
Representing Queer and Transgender Identity
Fluid Bodies in the Hispanic Caribbean and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Fluid Bodies traces the intersections of global movement with transgender and queer identities from authors and artists of the Hispanic Caribbean. Utilizing the theme of fluidity and travel, Fluid Bodies analyzes novels, graphic novels, theatre, and performance art. These works demonstrate how transgender...