Central South American category: 593 books
Sounding the Break
African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The idea of "world literature" has served as a crucial though underappreciated interlocutor for African diasporic writers, informing their involvement in processes of circulation, translation, and revision that have been identified as the hallmarks of the contemporary era of world literature. Yet...
Public Pages
Reading Along the Latin American Streetscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Public reading programs are flourishing in many Latin American cities in the new millennium. They defy the conception of reading as solitary and private by literally taking literature to the streets to create new communities of readers. From institutional and official to informal and spontaneous,...
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...
Beyond Civilization and Barbarism
Culture and Politics in Postrevolutionary Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines how various cultural forms promoted competing political projects in Argentina during the decades following independence from Spain. This turbulent period has long been characterized as a struggle between two irreconcilable forces: the dictatorship of Juan...
Theorizing a Colonial Caribbean-Atlantic Imaginary
Sugar and Obeah
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points marking respectively the origins and demise of slavocratic systems in the West Indies. Focusing on Richard...
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...
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...
Mobility and Modernity
Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination rewrites the history of the Panama Canal, assessing for the first time the literary culture of the preceding decades. In this period, U.S. and British writers and visual artists developed sophisticated languages...
Spaces of Madness
Insane Asylums in Argentine Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. From a place of existential exile at the turn of the twentieth century to a symbolic representation of Argentine society during and immediately subsequent to the Dirty War, the figure...
by Seymour Menton
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Recipient of the Hubert Herring Memorial Award from the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies for the best unpublished manuscript of 1973, Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution is an in-depth study of works by Cubans, Cuban exiles, and other Latin American writers. Combining historical and...
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,...
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...