Central South American category: 593 books
by Naomi Lindstrom
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The world discovered Latin American literature in the twentieth century, but the roots of this rich literary tradition reach back beyond Columbus's discovery of the New World. The great pre-Hispanic civilizations composed narrative accounts of the acts of gods and kings. Conquistadors and friars,...
Toma y Daca
Transculturación Y Presencia de Escritores Chino-Latinoamericanos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In the mid-1800s, tens of thousands of Chinese workers migrated to Cuba, Peru, Mexico, and Panama in search of a better life. As they and their descendants assimilated into their new host countries, they contributed significantly to the economies of these countries through their work in agriculture,...
Deconstructing Paradise
Inverted Religious Symbolism in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Deconstructing Paradise investigates Christian symbols that appear in Latin American Literature in an inverted way. The texts under investigation invert the Christian center to generate a social, political, cultural, or even artistic commentary. In doing so, each text underscores a search for meaning...
The Untimely Present
Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1999
The Untimely Present examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the recent Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Idelber Avelar argues that through their legacy of social trauma and obliteration of history, these military regimes gave rise to unique...
Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay
Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Latin American women have long written essays on topics ranging from gender identity and the female experience to social injustice, political oppression, lack of educational opportunities, and the need for female solidarity in a patriarchal environment. But this rich vein of writing has often been ignored...
Beyond Bolaño
The Global Latin American Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized...
by Naomi Lindstrom
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Spanish American fiction became a world phenomenon in the twentieth century through multilanguage translations of such novels as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman, Octavio Paz's Labyrinth of Solitude, and Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits....
Killer Books
Writing, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Writing and violence have been inextricably linked in Spanish America from the Conquest onward. Spanish authorities used written edicts, laws, permits, regulations, logbooks, and account books to control indigenous peoples whose cultures were predominantly oral, giving rise to a mingled awe and mistrust...
In Search of the Sacred Book
Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite...
by Cathy L. Jrade
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Modernismo arose in Spanish American literature as a confrontation with and a response to modernizing forces that were transforming Spanish American society in the later nineteenth century. In this book, Cathy L. Jrade undertakes a full exploration of the modernista project and shows how it provided...
An American Teacher in Argentina
Mary Gorman’s Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from New Mexico to the Pampas
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
An American Teacher in Argentina tells the story of Mary E. Gorman who in 1869 was the first North American woman to accept President Domingo F. Sarmiento’s invitation to set up normal schools in Argentina, where she eventually settled. An ordinary historical actor whose life only sometimes enters...
After Human Rights
Literature, Visual Arts, and Film in Latin America, 1990-2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
Fernando J. Rosenberg explores Latin American artistic production concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of the human rights narrative around the turn of the last century. Prior to this, key literary and artistic projects articulated Latin American modernity...
by Carlos Fuentes
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
One of the late Carlos Fuentes's final projects, this compendium of his criticism traces the evolution of the Latin American novel from the discovery of America to the present day. Combining historical perspective with personal and often opinionated interpretation, Fuentes gives us a tour from Machado...
by Anne W. Gulick
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The era of national liberation and decolonization may have come and gone, but postcolonialism remains a largely elusive ideal in the early twenty-first century. In Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic, Anne W. Gulick uncovers a dynamic literary history of African...