Central category: 1451 books
by Bruce King
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
V. S. Naipaul is a reader-friendly introduction to the writing of one of the most influential contemporary authors and the 2001 Nobel laureate in Literature. Bruce King provides a novel by novel analysis of the fiction with attention to structure, significance, and Naipaul's development as a writer,...
by William Childers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda. William Childers sets out to free Cervantes' work from its context within the histories of the European national literatures. Instead,...
by Claudette M. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
The Devil in the Details engages respectfully with previous interpretations of 19th century Cuban antislavery narratives, and suggests other ways of thinking about and understanding them in the light of contemporary ideas.
Crossing the Line
Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Crossing the Line examines a group of early nineteenth-century novels by white creoles, writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their experiences in Britain’s Caribbean colonies. Colonial subjects residing in the West Indian colonies "beyond the line," these writers were perceived...
Blood on the Border
A Memoir of the Contra War
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as “a force of nature on the page and off.” That force is fully present in Blood on the Border, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Blood on the Border is Dunbar-Ortiz’s...
Borges's Poe
The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Edgar Allan Poe’s image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the Río de la Plata region of South America—Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. In Borges’s Poe, Emron Esplin...
by Lauren Rule Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Why are twentieth-century novelists from former British colonies in the Americas preoccupied with British Romantic poetry? In Romantic Revisions, Lauren Rule Maxwell examines five novels-Kincaid's Lucy, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Harris's...
Auto/Biography across the Americas
Transnational Themes in Life Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas—whether chosen or forced—motivates the ways in which identities...
by Steven Boldy
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Juan Rulfo, 1917-1986, is one of the three greatest writers of twentieth-century Mexico together with Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz. A Companion to Juan Rulfo is the most comprehensive modern study of Rulfo. The first sections situate his life and work in the historical and political context of the...
by Pedro Henríquez Ureña
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Miguel D. Mena, editor de las "Obras completas de Pedro Henríquez Ureña" nos comenta: «"En la orilla: gustos y colores" No es seguramente una obra mayor. Buena parte ya había sido publicada [...] en revistas de España, México, Argentina, Cuba, Costa Rica y la República Dominicana. Son textos...
by Pedro Henríquez Ureña
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2012
El presente volumen recoge los estudios que escribió Henríquez Ureña sobre temas mexicanos: letras coloniales, literatura de la época de la independencia, crónicas de la empresa ateneísta, notas sobre escritores, artistas e instituciones y estudios sobre el español y el folclore de México....
Reimagining the Caribbean
Conversations among the Creole, English, French, and Spanish Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This volume brings together scholars working in different languages—Creole, French, English, Spanish—and modes of cultural production—literature, art, film, music—to suggest how best to model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent aspects of the Caribbean in the classroom....
The Last Barbarians
The Discovery Of The Source Of The Mekong In Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
More than thirty years ago, Michael Peisel's classic, Mustang: A Lost Tibetan Kingdom, introduced the world to a region more isolated than the deepest Amazon. Against the odds--and in the tradition of the nineteenth-century explorers of whom he is a direct descendant--Peissel has combed Tibet for...
Rascally Signs in Sacred Places
The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
David Whisnant provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic relationship between culture, power, and policy in Nicaragua over the last 450 years. Spanning a broad spectrum of popular and traditional expressive forms--including literature, music, film, and broadcast media--the book explores the...