Central South American category: 593 books
Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America
Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Grappling with the contemporary Latin American literary climate and its relationship to the pervasive technologies that shape global society, this bookvisits Latin American literature, technology, and digital culture from the post-boom era to the present day. The volume examines literature in dialogue...
José Revueltas y Roberto Bolaño
Formas genéricas de la experiencia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Este libro busca intervenir en el debate sobre formas del pensamiento latinoamericano, mas alla de la historia de las ideas, el poscolonialismo/decolonialismo, y la filosofia de la liberacion. Utiliza la literatura de Jose Revueltas (Mexico, 1914-1976) y Roberto Bolano (Chile, 1953-2003) para pensar...
Gender and Place in Chicana/o Literature
Critical Regionalism and the Mexican American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This book is a study of gender and place in twentieth-century Chicana/o literature and culture, covering the early period of regional writing to contemporary art. Remapping Chicana/o literary and cultural history from the critical regional perspective of the Mexican American Southwest, it uncovers...
by Gustavo Bernardo
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Machado de Assis não é realista. A afirmação, que rompe com um dos maiores dogmas da Teoria da Literatura brasileira, é a ideia central do livro do escritor, ensaísta e professor Gustavo Bernardo, hoje um dos mais importantes nomes da reflexão sobre Literatura e Educação do Brasil.
Nesta...
The Monstered Self
Narratives of Death and Performance in Latin American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Viewing stories and novels from an ethnographic perspective, Eduardo González here explores the relationship between myth, ritual, and death in writings by Borges, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, and Roa Bastos. He then weaves this analysis into a larger cultural fabric composed of the works of Chaucer,...
Los espíritus de la ciencia ficción
Espiritismo, periodismo y cultura popular en las novelas de Eduardo Holmberg, Francisco Miralles y Pedro Castera
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book examines the development of Latin American science fiction from the mid-nineteenth century until the early days of Modernsmo via an in-depth discussion of the first three novels published in Spanish America: Viaje maravilloso del senor Nic-Nac al planeta Marte by Argentinian writer Eduardo...
Zuritax60
Textos críticos sobre su obra y su ensayo «Los poemas muertos»
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Celebrando los 60 años de Raúl Zurita, los siete ensayos que se reúnen en este libro representan una mirada joven, tan nueva como múltiple, en torno a la obra de este apreciado poeta de quien se incluye «Los poemas muertos», nudo central de su visión de la poesía, nunca antes publicado íntegramente en Chile.
Experiments in Exile
C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Explores political possibilities for defining the common outside the bounds of citizenship and conventional liberal identity categories.
by Julio Ortega
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Together with the late Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, the 1982 Nobel laureate, stands at the pinnacle of Latin American literature. His work, in the words of Julio Ortega, "contains its own 'deconstructive' force—a literary power capable of reshaping natural order and rhetorical tradition...
by Jaime Quezada Ruiz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Artículos escritos para revistas y periódicos, referencias críticas, textos prologales, diálogos de mesa y sobremesa, conversaciones al botón de lo cotidiano o al arte del birlibirloque, libretas de apuntes, notas en hojas al lápiz grafito, recortes de prensa y, en fin, papeles varios que conllevan,...
Travels in a Thin Country
A Journey Through Chile
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral...
by Roberto Santiago
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
MANY CULTURES * ONE WORLD
"Boricua is what Puerto Ricans call one another as a term of endearment, respect, and cultural affirmation; it is a timeless declaration that transcends gender and color. Boricua is a powerful word that tells the origin and history of the Puerto Rican people."
--From...
by Irene Marques
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity (including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic imperialism) focuses on the work of four writers: the Mozambican Mia Couto, the Portuguese José Saramago, the Brazilian Clarice Lispector, and the South African J. M. Coetzee. In...
by João Capistrano de Abreu
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the...