Central South American category: 593 books
by Jerónimo Arellano
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America rethinks the rise and fall of magical realism in Latin America in the light of the cultural history of the emotions, and in conversation with contemporary theories of the affects. It explores how twentieth-century magical realist narrative...
The Fantasy of Globalism
The Latin American Neo-Baroque
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
For many, the advent of globalization brought with it an end to the way that the world had been viewed previous to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Among the many endings the one that most concerns my book is the perceived foreclosure of any alternatives to the capitalistic ideology that structures globalization....
Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect
A Collection
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel...
The Fragmented Novel in Mexico
The Politics of Form
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From Mariano Azuela's 1915 novel Los de abajo to Rosamaría Roffiel's Amora of 1989, fragmented narrative has been one of the defining features of innovative Mexican fiction in the twentieth century. In this innovative study, Carol Clark D'Lugo examines fragmentation as a literary strategy that reflects...
A Companion to Pablo Neruda
Evaluating Neruda's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a view that there are two Nerudas, an early Romantic visionary and a later Marxist populist, who denied his earlier poetic self. By focussing on the poet's apprenticeship, and...
Women Writers of Latin America
Intimate Histories
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
What does it take for a woman to succeed as a writer? In these revealing interviews, first published in 1988 as Historias íntimas, ten of Latin America's most important women writers explore this question with scholar Magdalena García Pinto, discussing the personal, social, and political factors...
The Lights of Home
A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Cuba and the Tempest
Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established...
Sandino's Nation
Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez Writing Nicaragua, 1940-2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez are two of the most influential Latin American intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Addressing Nicaragua's struggle for self-definition from divergent ethnic, religious, generational, political, and class backgrounds, they constructed...
From Sugar to Revolution
Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti—a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studies—the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. In From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of...
Latina Performance
Traversing the Stage
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999
Latina Performance is a densely theorized treatment of rich materials." —MultiCultural Review
Arrizón's important book revolves around the complex issues of identity formation and power relations for US women performers of Latin American descent." —Choice
Latina Performance examines...
by Danny Méndez
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and...
Writing to Cuba
Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and books. Collaborating with military movements known as filibusters, this generation of exiled writers created a body of literature demanding Cuban independence...
Pirate Novels
Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1999
In Pirate Novels Nina Gerassi-Navarro examines an overlooked genre to reveal how history and fiction blend to address important isuses of nation building in nineteenth-century Spanish America. In the figure of the pirate, bold and heroic to some, cruel and criminal to others, she reveals an almost...