Central South American category: 593 books
Manifiestos… de manifiesto
Provocación, memoria y arte en el género-síntoma de las vanguardias literarias hispanoamericanas, 1896-1938
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 14, 2017
¿Qué se sabía en realidad de las vanguardias históricas hispanoamericanas hace apenas treinta años? Muy poco, si se exceptúa la atención aislada que habían merecido las obras poéticas de algunas de las figuras más relevantes del período, Vicente Huidobro, César Vallejo, Oliverio Girondo,...
by Augusto Roa Bastos, Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The Prosecutor is the third novel of a trilogy written by the internationally famous Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos. It was preceded by the novels Son of Man and I The Supreme. Together these three works contemplate what the author has termed “the monotheism of power.” The Prosecutor explores...
In Search of Annie Drew
Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
There is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer’s canon as Jamaica Kincaid’s mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its apparent theme, actually relates to Kincaid’s...
Realismo e violência na literatura contemporânea
os contos de Famílias terrivelmente felizes, de Marçal Aquino
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Este livro, fruto da dissertação de mestrado do autor, busca compreender a ficção brasileira contemporânea considerando a história político-social da nação, no período que vai do fim da ditadura militar à sua redemocratização. Assim, Fábio Mendes propõe uma análise crítica dos contos...
by Polyanna Ervedosa
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 14, 2011
O livro O feminino e a fragmentação amorosa de Noite na Taverna pode ser considerado uma criação sui generis de investigação literária que contempla questões sobre o imaginário afectivo em Álvares de Azevedo, evocando incisivamente a figura da fêmea humana e confirmando as paixões animalescas...
by Andrés Morales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
La justicia ha tardado, pero, al fin, se ha hecho sólida con la obra de Vicente Huidobro. Hoy en día, se presenta una revitalización de los estudios en torno a sus libros de poemas y manifiestos, esencialmente a partir de las investigaciones del profesor norteamericano René de Costa y del chileno...
Le Vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour de Luis Sepulveda
Questionnaire de lecture
Language: French
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Testez vos connaissances sur Le Vieux qui lisait des romans d’amour de Luis Sepulveda !Ce questionnaire de lecture sur Le Vieux qui lisait des romans d’amour de Luis Sepulveda vous aidera à :• vérifier votre compréhension du roman• faire des liens entre la réalité et la fiction• approfondir...
Obliteración
Dos conversaciones con George Bernard Shaw y de Rodolfo Usigli: Preparativos para un acto final.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 27, 2014
El presente volumen rescata dos obras importantes y poco conocidas de Rodolfo Usigli: "Obliteración" y "Dos conversaciones con George Bernard Shaw", que dialogan y se complementan entre sí y cuya relación hace manifiesta en su postfacio Adolfo Castañón. "Obliteración" es, además de "Ensayo...
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Desde la decada de los sesenta hasta el presente, varios estudios han analizado las formaciones discursivas que conforman la razon latinoamericana. Los ensayos del presente volumen se limitan al espacio mas estrecho––aunque igualmente desafiante––de los Andes, una categoria que, aun hoy, estamos...
Las hojas breves
Acerca de Fernando Pessoa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Este libro ofrece un acercamiento a algunas de las odas del poeta portugués Fernando Pessoa, en la figura de su heterónimo Ricardo Reis. En ellas se plasma de modo magistral su pensamiento poético así como su genio creador. Las odas de Pessoa merecen sin duda el calificativo de extraordinarias,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
The past decades have seen a growing “philosophical” interest in a number of authors, but strangely enough Saramago’s oeuvre has been left somewhat aside. This volume aims at filling this gap by providing a diverse range of philosophical perspectives and expositions on Saramago’s work. The...
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 9, 2017
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 9, 2017
De bescheiden held vertelt de parallelle geschiedenis van twee mannen: de ordelijke en vriendelijke Felícito Yanaqué, een kleine ondernemer die wordt gechanteerd; en Ismael Carrera, een succesvolle zakenman, die op een verrassende manier wraak neemt op zijn twee luie zoons die hun vader liever dood...
Glissant and the Middle Passage
Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness
While philosophy has undertaken the work of accounting for Europe’s traumatic history, the field has not shown the same attention...
Concrete and Countryside
The Urban and the Rural in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept by a wave of modernization, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society to an unquestionably urban one. A curious paradox ensued, however. While the island underwent rapid urbanization, and the rhetoric of economic development...