Central South American category: 593 books
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...
Colonial Angels
Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Spain's attempt to establish a "New Spain" in Mexico never fully succeeded, for Spanish institutions and cultural practices inevitably mutated as they came in contact with indigenous American outlooks and ways of life. This original, interdisciplinary book explores how writing by and about colonial religious...
Macho Ethics
Masculinity and Self-Representation in Latino-Caribbean Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous one—a fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances. Because of its opacity and instability, masculinity, like more recognizable systems of oppression, resists discernibility. In Macho Ethics: Masculinity and...
Parallel Worlds
Genre, Discourse, and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial, and Classic Maya Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Despite recent developments in epigraphy, ethnopoetics, and the literary investigation of colonial and modern materials, few studies have compared glyphic texts and historic Maya literatures. Parallel Worlds examines Maya writing and literary traditions from the Classic period until today, revealing...
Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory
Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature’s greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist poetry, Machado creates, between 1880...
by John A. Ochoa
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
While the concept of defeat in the Mexican literary canon is frequently acknowledged, it has rarely been explored in the fullness of the psychological and religious contexts that define this aspect of "mexicanidad." Going beyond the simple narrative of self-defeat, The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature...
Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture
The Game of Slipknot
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Keith L. Walker traverses the traditionally imposed boundaries of geography and race as he examines the literary culture produced by French speakers and writers born outside France. Focusing on the commonalities revealed in their shared language and colonial history, Walker examines for the first...
The Places of History
Regionalism Revisited in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 1999
Responding to the pressures of current theoretical trends toward models of cultural globalization, the essays collected here bring a historical focus to literary studies. They suggest that only by exploring the particularities of regional historical cultures can the multiple meanings of American identities...
Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil
Memory, Politics and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil brings updated criticism in English on the work of the prominent Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892–1953), a key figure in understanding the making of modern Brazil. Building on existing literature, this book innovates through chapters that consider...
by Francesco Varanini
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 8, 2013
“El Viaje literario por América Latina, de Francesco Varanini, da su merecido a la crítica
más complaciente y a la vez apuesta por la novela ocasional, no un libro cada año con
formas como fórmulas.” [“Il Viaggio letterario in America Latina, di Francesco Varanini,
non fa sconti alla critica...
by Maqueira, Enzo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Pocos personajes generan tanta pasión como Julio Cortázar. Como escritor, supo nutrirse de la tradición fantástica del Río de la Plata y reelaborarla para inaugurar un nuevo espacio en donde luego abrevarían las futuras generaciones. Tal cual dijo alguna vez el escritor mexicano Carlos Fuentes,...
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story...
by Lucía Guerra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Varios años después de la publicación de “La narrativa de María Luisa Bombal, una visión de la existencia femenina", Lucía Guerra nos entrega ahora este volumen que se basa en su anterior estudio sobre la obra de Bombal, pero toma un vuelo propio y profundo, ya que añade y reformula...
The Empire Writes Back
Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2002
The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and...