Central South American category: 593 books
by Jack A. Draper III, Sophie Dufays, Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is the first volume to delve into the construction of children's subjectivity and agency in Latin American film, and addresses such questions as: How and to what extent do films express the point of view of the child? How do plots and film practices represent...
Sexual Textualities
Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Since the 1991 publication of his groundbreaking book Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing, David William Foster has proposed a series of theoretical and critical principles for the analysis of Latin American culture from the perspectives of the queer. This book continues that project...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García...
Conquest of the New Word
Experimental Fiction and Translation in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Latin American fiction won great acclaim in the United States during the 1960s, when many North American writers and critics felt that our national writing had reached a low ebb. In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne argues that the North American reception of the "boom"...
Hemispheric Imaginations
North American Fictions of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this...
The Vanishing Frame
Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism has been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art—expecially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the textual subject (often a victim) and the reader...
The Spanish American Novel
A Twentieth-Century Survey
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In The Spanish American Novel, John S. Brushwood analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality. In relating the generic history of the novel to extraliterary events in Spanish America, he shows how twentieth-century fiction sets forth the essence of...
The Wandering Signifier
Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2008
While Jews figure in the work of many modern Latin American writers, the questions of how and to what end they are represented have received remarkably little critical attention. Helping to correct this imbalance, Erin Graff Zivin traces the symbolic presence of Jews and Jewishness in late-nineteenth-...
The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture
Modernismo's Unstoppable Presses
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the crónica genre to advance their literary preoccupations. Through a variety of modernista writers, including José Martí, Amado Nervo, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Rubén...
by Aníbal González
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Latin American Literary Boom was marked by complex novels steeped in magical realism and questions of nationalism, often with themes of surreal violence. In recent years, however, those revolutionary projects of the sixties and seventies have given way to quite a different narrative vision and...
by Naomi Lindstrom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Literature in Latin America has long been a vehicle for debates over the interpretation of social history, cultural identity, and artistic independence. Indeed, Latin American literature has gained international respect for its ability to present social criticism through works of imaginative creation.In...
The Pan American Imagination
Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth-Century Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In the history of the early twentieth-century Americas, visions of hemispheric unity flourished, and the notion of a transnational American identity was embraced by artists, intellectuals, and government institutions. In The Pan American Imagination, Stephen Park explores the work of several Pan American...
by Richard Young, Odile Cisneros
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador,...
On the Edge of the Holocaust
The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment of the Shoah by five leading figures in Argentine,...