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American Films of the 70s
Conflicting Visions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
While the anti-establishment rebels of 1969's Easy Rider were morphing into the nostalgic yuppies of 1983's The Big Chill, Seventies movies brought us everything from killer sharks, blaxploitation, and disco musicals to a loving look at General George S. Patton. Indeed, as Peter Lev persuasively argues...
Grace Paley
Illuminating Dark Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Grace Paley is a "writer's writer," admired by both scholars and the reading public for her originality and unique voice. In this first book-length study of her work, Jacqueline Taylor explores the source of Paley's originality, locating it in the way Paley transforms language to create...
by José Enrique Rodó
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rod protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban,...
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[Un]framing the "Bad Woman"
Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels with a Cause
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
"What the women I write about have in common is that they are all rebels with a cause, and I see myself represented in their mirror," asserts Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Looking back across a career in which she has written novels, poems, and scholarly works about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, la Malinche,...
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...
From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi
Our Embassy Years during Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
In 1994, while nations everywhere stood idly by, 800,000 people were slaughtered in eight weeks in Rwanda. Arriving as U.S. Ambassador to neighboring Burundi a few weeks later, Bob Krueger began drawing international attention to the genocide also proceeding in Burundi, where he sought to minimize...
The Singing Mountaineers
Songs and Tales of the Quechua People
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
The Quechua people, the "singing mountaineers" of Peru, still sing the songs that their Inca ancestors knew before the Spaniards invaded the Andes. Some of these songs, collected and translated into Spanish by José María Arguedas and María Lourdes Valladares from the Quechua language and the Huanca...
El Lector
A History of the Cigar Factory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The practice of reading aloud has a long history, and the tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard-won right deeply embedded in cigar factory workers' culture. In El Lector, Araceli Tinajero deftly traces the evolution of the reader from nineteenth-century Cuba to the present and its eventual dissemination...
by Seymour Menton
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Beginning with the 1979 publication of Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra, the New Historical Novel has become the dominant genre within Latin American fiction. In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity...
The Dissenting Voice
The New Essay of Spanish America, 1960-1985
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Political, social, and aesthetic change marked Latin American society in the years between 1960 and 1985. In this book, Martin Stabb explores how these changes made their way into the essayistic writings of twenty-six Spanish American intellectuals. Stabb posits that dissent—against ideology, against...
by John Beverley, Marc Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
“This book began in what seemed like a counterfactual intuition . . . that what had been happening in Nicaraguan poetry was essential to the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution,” write John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman. “In our own postmodern North American culture, we are long past thinking of...
Art and Answerability
Early Philosophical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) is one of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century philosophical thought. Art and Answerability contains three of his early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution, when Bakhtin and other intellectuals eagerly participated in the debates, lectures, demonstrations,...
by Octavio Paz
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In The Bow and the Lyre Octavio Paz, one of the most important poets writing in Spanish, presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives. It is written in the same prose style that distinguishes The Labyrinth of Solitude. The...
by Gustavo Corção
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Three months to live. José Maria, a contemplative engineer in late middle age, and now a victim of leukemia, has received a death sentence from his doctor. His life has been a frustrating nonfulfillment of his early hopes, and his musings are many and varied as his life wanes. The Brazilian writer Corção's...