Central South American category: 593 books
Anti-Literature
The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Anti-Literature articulates a rethinking of what is meant today by “literature.” Examining key Latin American forms of experimental writing from the 1920s to the present, Adam Joseph Shellhorse reveals literature’s power as a site for radical reflection and reaction to contemporary political...
Theorizing Glissant
Sites and Citations
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Édouard Glissant’s work has begun to make a significant impact on francophone studies and some corners of postcolonial theory*.* His literary works and criticism are increasingly central to the study of Caribbean literature and cultural studies.This collection focuses on the particularly philosophical...
Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways
Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
“We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America’s institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing,...
The Art of Transition
Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2001
The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what...
Modernism and Latin America
Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century. Drawing on comparative, historical, and postcolonial reading strategies (including archival research), it seeks to reenergize the study of modernism by...
by José Victorino Lastarria
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2000
Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--José Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of nineteenth-century Chilean and Spanish American culture,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The 'Global South' has largely supplanted the 'Third World' in discussions of development studies, postcolonial studies, world literature and comparative literature respectively. The concept registers a new set of relationships between nations of the once colonized world as their connections to nations...
by Rolando Pérez
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers like García Márquez and Vargas-Llosa, and his compatriot, Cabrera-Infante. On the other hand, he never lacked for excellent critical interpretations of his work from critics like Roberto González Echevarría,...
Borges's Poe
The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Edgar Allan Poe’s image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the Río de la Plata region of South America—Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. In Borges’s Poe, Emron Esplin...
Diversión
Play and Popular Culture in Cuban America
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Winner, 2018 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize, presented by the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association
Winner, 2018 Robert K. Martin Book Prize, presented by the Canadian American Studies Association
Honorable Mention, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the Latina/o Studies Section of the Latin...
The Siren and the Seashell
And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to achieve a unity of their polarities. The Siren and the Seashell is a collection of Paz’s essays, focusing...
by Ray Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Known for his superrealism and magical images born of the imagery of the Chicano/South Western culture, Ray Gonzalez gives new imagery and intensity to the mystery and common miracles of that culture, the passionate reclamation of identity.
Ray Gonzalez is a poet, essayist, and editor born...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
When Brazil was honored at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, the Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato opened the event with a provocative speech, claiming that literature, through its pervasive depiction and discussion of ‘otherness,’ has the potential to provoke ethical transformation. This book uses...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of Latin American poetry and includes...