Central South American category: 593 books

In One-Way Tickets, Borinsky offers up a splendid tour across 20th-century literatures, providing a literary travelogue to writers and artists in exile. She describes their challenges in adjusting to new homelands, issues of identity and language, and the brilliant works produced under the discomforts...

One of the major novelists in world literature over the last five decades, Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936) is also one of Latin America's most engaging public intellectuals, a critic of art and culture, and a playwright of distinction. This Companion's chapters chart the development of Vargas Llosa's...

Carlos Fuentes is a master of modern world literature. With the translation of his major works into English and other languages, his reputation has surpassed the boundaries of his native Mexico and of Hispanic literature and has become international. Now each new novel stimulates popular and scholarly...

A native Cuban who has lived in London since 1966, Guillermo Cabrera Infante is, in every sense, a multilingual and multicultural author. Equally at ease in both Spanish and English, he has distinguished himself with daring and innovative novels, essays, short stories, and film scripts written in both...

The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of invention and experiment, on what constitutes...

This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide analyses of the historical and political background...

Throughout Haitian history—from 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti—arguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an “unsettling faith” and a “cultural paradox,” as expressed in various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life...

Rewriting The Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Négritude male writers from the...

From reviews of the first edition: "A compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest...writer of fantasy. With a keen appreciation of Borges himself and a pleasant disregard for the critical clichs, Bell-Villada tells us all we really want to know about the modern master-from pronouncing...

Redactado en 1938 y revisado en 1956, el cuerpo de estas notas se hallaba inédito. El mayor valor de este texto es que presenta una faceta poco conocida del polígrafo: su genuino interés en los avances científicos de su tiempo y su capacidad para entender y proyectar su valor y alcance. Para Alfonso...

Evodio Escalante, reconocido crítico literario e investigador de la literatura mexicana, presenta seis ensayos en los que se develan los símbolos literarios de José Revueltas y sus fuentes más trascendentes. En esta cuarta edición de José Revueltas: una literatura "del lado moridor"...

"Estamos ante un estudio riguroso y creativo de una obra mayor del siglo XX. No sólo se adentra en los entresijos de la escritura del novelista colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, sino que extrae de ella penetrantes iluminaciones para el presente. Su autora señala el hecho de que Cien años...

Estas páginas nos ofrecen un retrato nuevo de la obra de Xavier Villaurrutia, al tiempo que forman un mural grupal de los Contemporáneos.

El lector tiene entre manos un libro que va de lo general a lo particular; de las visiones panorámicas de la literatura venezolana del siglo XX a los análisis de obras específicas. Rafael Arráiz Lucca estudia los géneros literarios en su trayectoria cronológica y, también, aborda sus desarrollos...