Central category: 1451 books
by Edgardo Álvarez, Luis Reyes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Durante el proceso de edición del presente libro el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) publica su Informe de Desarrollo Humano, dedicado este año al tema de la seguridad ciudadana. Este informe señala que el flanco débil hoy en América Latina es la violencia, el crimen...
Raíces de la memoria
Ficción y posmodernidad en Roberto Burgos Cantor
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2014
¿No era acaso la posmodernidad la vanguardia que destruía los grandes relatos? Este estudio evidencia la necesidad de entender las teorías de las corrientes artísticas como tentativas que siempre podrán ser rebasadas por los creadores, tal como lo ha hecho Roberto Burgos Cantor. Como si se tratara...
Tecnologías del cuerpo
Exhibicionismo y visualidad en América Latina
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A lo largo de cinco capítulos centrados en Reinaldo Arenas, Salvador Novo, Armando Reverón, Fernando Vallejo y Mario Bellatin, el autor propone que el cuerpo pasa por los registros visuales y ficcionales para modelarse y ser modelado en un proceso que es siempre incompleto, inestable y, por ello, admite revueltas.
by Luis Barahona
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Luis Barahona reivindica una Costa Rica con pensamiento de identidad. Nos lleva a través de su vívida prosa, a las márgenes del discurso donde convergen lo imaginario y lo real. Allí nos encontramos con el ideario de Mario Sancho, Pío Víquez, Víctor Manuel Sanabria y Manuel de Jesús Jiménez;...
La historia y el laberinto
Hacia una estética del devenir en Octavio Paz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Un recorrido a través de la relación entre la escritura de la historia, la vida de Octavio Paz y la visión de México –lúcida y poética–, que nos legó en su ensayo capital de la segunda mitad del siglo XX: "El laberinto de la soledad". Al cabo de la intuición y del saber historiográfico...
Afro-Cuban Religious Experience
Cultural Reflections in Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands....
Three Authors of Alienation
Bombal, Onetti, Carpentier
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
As a philosophical and social concept, alienation covers a broad range of mental states, both normal and abnormal. Correspondingly, a wide range of literary forms has been employed to deal with this important theme. In Three Authors of Alienation, an exploration of the literary expression of alienation,...
by Gianluca Delfino
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Gianluca Delfino's encounter with one of the Caribbean's most controversial authors illuminates Wilson Harris's imaginative approach to history and time. Delfino references several novels, with a special focus on The Infinite Rehearsal (1987), Jonestown (1996), and The Dark Jester (2001). His analysis...
Caribbean-English Passages
Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Tobias Döring uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience.
Caribbean-English Passages opens an innovative...
by Inês Amorim, Vincent Barletta, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
Portuguese Literature and the Environment explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from Medieval times to the present. From the centrality of nature in Medieval poetry, through the bucolic verse of the Renaissance, all the way to the Romantic and post-Romantic nostalgia...
Direct Democracy
Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Winner of a 2018 C. L. R. James Award for a Published Book for Academic or General Audiences from the Working-Class Studies Association
Beginning with the Haitian Revolution, Scott Henkel lays out a literary history of direct democracy in the Americas. Much research considers direct democracy...
Textual Exposures
Photography in Twentieth Century Latin American Narrative Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations, and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated in fictional...
After the Earthquake
Over the Hill Goes Back to Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
JO CARROLL hesitated before returning to Nepal after the earthquake. Arriving as a tourist when local people were in such need felt an intrusion.
Not at all, Tika told her. We want you to come. We need you to come.
Within hours of arriving she saw just how right he was. Nepal, it seems,...
by Norman Collie
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
At some future date, how many years hence who can tell? all the wild places on the earth will have been explored. The Cape to Cairo railway will have brought the various sources of the Nile within a few days' travel of England; the endless fields of barren ice that surround the poles will have yielded...