University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill Department Of Romance Studies imprint: 4 books

Mujeres en transito: viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamerica (1810-1930) parte de la incidencia que los relatos de viaje (extranjeros y locales) tuvieron en la formacion discursiva de las sociedades sudamericanas. El texto revisa la limitada consideracion que ha recibido la escritura femenina dentro...

Fashioned Texts and Painted Booksexamines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan's identity as a symbol of feminine sexuality, as a collectible art object, and, especially, as an alternative book form well suited to the...

Home Away from Home: Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture examines ideological, emotional, economic, and cultural phenomena brought about by migration through readings of works of literature and film featuring domestic workers. In the past thirty years,...

This book examines the development of Latin American science fiction from the mid-nineteenth century until the early days of Modernsmo via an in-depth discussion of the first three novels published in Spanish America: Viaje maravilloso del senor Nic-Nac al planeta Marte by Argentinian writer Eduardo...