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by Vivien Lougheed
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
This guide tells you everything you need to know about Belize City, but the Introduction contains extensive information about the entire country when to go, the people and culture, the history, plant and animal life, people and culture, and much more. Although not the capital of the country, Belize...
by Jaime Jacques
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Moon Handbooks give you the tools to make your own choices.
Can't-miss sights, activities, restaurants, and accommodations, marked with M
Essential info on San Salvador, El Salvador's resilient urban heart
Suggestions on how to plan a trip that's perfect for you, including:
The...
Deconstructing Paradise
Inverted Religious Symbolism in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Deconstructing Paradise investigates Christian symbols that appear in Latin American Literature in an inverted way. The texts under investigation invert the Christian center to generate a social, political, cultural, or even artistic commentary. In doing so, each text underscores a search for meaning...
The Untimely Present
Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1999
The Untimely Present examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the recent Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Idelber Avelar argues that through their legacy of social trauma and obliteration of history, these military regimes gave rise to unique...
Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay
Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Latin American women have long written essays on topics ranging from gender identity and the female experience to social injustice, political oppression, lack of educational opportunities, and the need for female solidarity in a patriarchal environment. But this rich vein of writing has often been ignored...
Mujeres en tránsito
Viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamérica (1830-1910)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Mujeres en transito: viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamerica (1810-1930) parte de la incidencia que los relatos de viaje (extranjeros y locales) tuvieron en la formacion discursiva de las sociedades sudamericanas. El texto revisa la limitada consideracion que ha recibido la escritura femenina dentro...
Disturbers of the Peace
Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Kelly Josephs explores the prevalence of madness in Caribbean texts to show how it functions both as a critique of colonialism and as a literary innovation for representing national identity.
by Diana Sorensen Goodrich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Domingo F. Sarmiento's classic 1845 essay Facundo, Civilizacion y Barbarie opened an inquiry into the nature of Argentinian culture that continues to the present day. In this elegantly written study, Diana Sorensen Goodrich explores the varied, and often conflicting, readings that Facundo has received...
Tropical Apocalypse
Haiti and the Caribbean End Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Martin Munro offers both a history of apocalyptic culture in the Caribbean and an up-to-date account of the social, political, environmental, religious, and economic factors that have brought apocalypse back to prominence in the region.
Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico
Literary and Cultural Inquiries
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The rewritings of the Mexican colonia discussed in this book question a present reality of marginalities and inequality, of imposed political domination, and of hybrid subjectivities. In their examination of the novels, films, poetry, and chronicles produced in and outside of Mexico since 2000, the...
Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation
Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture, and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicolás Guillén
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity. Yet, many aspects of Guillén’s work enhance black Cuban...
A Saint Is Born in Chima
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
When the paralyzed cripple Domingo Vidal is rescued unsinged from a burning house, the people of Chima believe they have witnessed a miracle. Domingo becomes their patron "saint," and tales of his miracles multiply. Domingo makes the rains come, cures the blind and lame, and swells barren wombs with...
The Mexican Crack Writers
History and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This book provides a rich and cutting-edge analysis of one of the most prominent literary groups in Latin America: the Mexican Crack Writers. The first part explores the history of the group and its relation to the Latin American literary tradition, while the second part is devoted to the critical...
American Imperialism's Undead
The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
As modern Caribbean politics and literature emerged in the first half of the twentieth century, Haiti, as the region's first independent state, stood as a source of inspiration for imagining decolonization and rooting regional identity in Africanness. Yet at precisely the same moment that anticolonialism...