Central South American category: 593 books
Rewriting Womanhood
Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
In Rewriting Womanhood, Nancy LaGreca explores the subversive refigurings of womanhood in three novels by women writers: La hija del bandido (1887) by Refugio Barragán de Toscano (Mexico; 1846–1916), Blanca Sol (1888) by Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Peru; 1845–1909), and Luz y sombra (1903)...
by Sylvia Molloy
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1993
Available for the first time in English, Signs of Borges is widely regarded as the best single book on the work of Jorge Luis Borges. With a critical sensibility informed by Barthes, Lacan, Foucault, Blanchot, and the entire body of Borges scholarship, Sylvia Molloy explores the problem of meaning...
Impossible Returns
Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by those who left Cuba as children or adolescents. Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and visual arts, many of these accounts feature a physical arrival on the island while others depict a metaphorical...
Receptions of the Classics in the African Diaspora of the Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds
Atlantis Otherwise
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Atlantis Otherwise expands the study of the African diaspora by focusing on postcolonial literary expressions from Latin America and Africa. The book studies the presence of classical references in texts written by writers (black and non-black) who are committed to the articulation of the fragmented...
Multiple Modernities
Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgos’s pivotal place in Spanish feminist history by bringing together eminent international scholars who offer new readings of Burgos’s work. It includes the analyses of a number of lesser-known texts, both fictional and non-fictional, which give...
Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature
Literary and Cultural Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
In their comprehensive study Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature: Literary and Cultural Essays, editors Jesús Rosales and Vanessa Fonseca provide a fresh set of perspectives on the field of Chicano literary and cultural studies. Composed of essays by scholars who live and work in the United...
Masculinity after Trujillo
The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
"Provides an insightful look at the persistent power of masculinism in Dominican post-dictatorship politics and literature."--Ignacio López-Calvo, author of God and Trujillo "The ideas about masculinization of power developed by Horn are important not only to Dominican scholarship...
Delirious Consumption
Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass consumption on an unprecedented scale, giving rise to the consumer society that exists today. Many avant-garde artists explored the nexus between consumption...
Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean
Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations. Focusing on the Caribbean double-diaspora, Pulitano offers a close-reading...
by Anne Fountain
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
"Essential reading for those who increasingly appreciate the enormous importance of Martí as one of the nineteenth century's most influential and most original thinkers."--John Kirk, coeditor of Redefining Cuban Foreign Policy "Fountain's wide-ranging, keen-eyed, and meticulously researched...
Black Africans in the British Imagination
English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
As Spain and England vied for dominance of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mounting political and religious tensions between the two empires raised a troubling specter for contemporary British writers attempting to justify early English imperial efforts. Specifically,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
One of the leading figures in Latin American folk music and art during her lifetime, Violeta Parra was a vital force in the artistic, musical, visual, cultural, and social cultural production of the Chilean 1960s. Fifty years after her death, she continues to deeply influence artists of the present...
Chicana/o Remix
Art and Errata Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Rewrites our understanding of the last 50 years of Chicana/o cultural production.
Chicana/o Remix casts new light not only on artists—such as Sandra de la Loza, Judy Baca, and David Botello, among others—but on the exhibitions that feature their work, and the collectors, curators, critics,...
Appropriating Theory
Angel Rama's Critical Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work. In this study, José Eduardo González focuses on Rama’s response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg...