Central category: 1451 books
by Scott Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Juan Luis Martínez’s Philosophical Poetics is an interdisciplinary study of collage/assemblage art and poetry by the most infamous and hermetic member of the Chilean neo-avant-garde literary scene. This comprehensive study of cult figure Juan Luis Martínez (1942–1993) takes a comparative approach...
Darwinism in Argentina
Major Texts (1845-1909)
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Darwinism in Argentina: Major Texts (1845-1909) brings together essays, letters, short-stories, and public lectures by travelers, scientists, writers, and politicians about Darwin and the theory of evolution in nineteenth century Argentina. This selection of texts provides a thorough overview of the...
Masculinity after Trujillo
The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
"Provides an insightful look at the persistent power of masculinism in Dominican post-dictatorship politics and literature."--Ignacio López-Calvo, author of God and Trujillo "The ideas about masculinization of power developed by Horn are important not only to Dominican scholarship...
Delirious Consumption
Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass consumption on an unprecedented scale, giving rise to the consumer society that exists today. Many avant-garde artists explored the nexus between consumption...
Pariah in the Desert
The Heroic and the Monstrous in Horacio Quiroga
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This is the first book in English on Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay 1878-Argentina 1937), a canonical author whose works are read by all advanced students of Spanish in the US and many other countries. The study examines Quiroga’s work through the theoretical lens of the heroic—a lens elaborated in...
The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora
Transatlantic Musings
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia, and capturing diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at political...
The Chicken and the Quetzal
Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala's Cloud Forest
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and ecotourism. In 1990 a group of German ecologists founded an NGO...
José Carlos Mariátegui’s Unfinished Revolution
Politics, Poetics, and Change in 1920s Peru
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Comprising six full-length chapters, a comprehensive Introduction and Conclusion, this monograph is extensive in scale and scope. It provides fresh readings of key writings of Mariátegui, one of Latin America’s most important and revolutionary political, cultural and aesthetic theorists, through...
American Creoles
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relations...
Beyond the Page
Poetry and Performance in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Poetry began as a spoken art and remains one to this day, but readers tend to view the poem on the page as an impenetrable artifact. This book examines the performance of poetry to show how far beyond the page it can travel. Exploring a range of performances from early twentieth-century recitations...
Beyond Tordesillas
New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
Beyond Tordesillas: New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies is the first volume of its kind to be published in English. Bringing together young and established scholars, it seeks to consolidate the vital work being done on the connections between the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds...
Women in Contemporary Latin American Novels
Psychoanalysis and Gendered Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This book explores the relationship between psychoanalysis, literary criticism and contemporary literature. Focusing on Latin America, and using examples from Brazilian, Colombian, Chilean, Puerto Rican, and Mexican literature, it provides an important account of why gendered violence occurs and how...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
These interdisciplinary essays on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries not only highlight the early origins and transnationality of the genre but also expand it beyond the iconic and ubiquitous examples.
Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America
The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
An unstructured genre that blends high aesthetic standards with nonfiction commentary, the journalistic crnica, or chronicle, has played a vital role in Latin American urban life since the nineteenth century. Drawing on extensive archival research, Viviane Mahieux delivers new testimony on how chroniclers...