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Pirate Novels
Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1999
In Pirate Novels Nina Gerassi-Navarro examines an overlooked genre to reveal how history and fiction blend to address important isuses of nation building in nineteenth-century Spanish America. In the figure of the pirate, bold and heroic to some, cruel and criminal to others, she reveals an almost...
by Raymond Leslie Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude have awakened English-language readers to the existence of Colombian literature in recent years, but Colombia has a well-established literary tradition that far predates the Latin American "boom." In this pathfinding study, Raymond Leslie Williams provides...
by Silvia G. Dapía
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Making an important contribution to studies in Literature and Philosophy, this book reads Jorge Luis Borges philosophically, particularly in reference to his use of representation and reality. Rather than attempting to subordinate Borges to a set of philosophical constructs, to reduce Borges’ texts...
by Penny Raife Durant
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
1987 - An old woman finds a baby girl abandoned by the road in El Salvador. In the USA, Diane Remer-Thamert mourns the loss of a stillborn girl. Civil war is raging in El Salvador. Diane’s husband Glen wants to adopt a child from El Salvador. He meets a Salvadoran attorney whose father can help...
by Jorge Luis Borges
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 12, 2013
“Yo vivo, yo me dejo vivir, para que Borge pueda tramar su literatura y esa literatura me justifica”. —De “Borges y yo”
Considerado por el mismo Borges como su libro más personal, El hacedor explora la relación entre el mundo interior y exterior del artista, el misterioso espacio...
Calypso Magnolia
The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by national...
Thiefing Sugar
Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
In Thiefing Sugar, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley explores the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers, revealing in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women. She takes the book’s title from Dionne Brand’s novel In Another Place, Not Here, where eroticism between women...
Nihilismo y verdad
Nietzsche en América Latina
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Las relaciones entre Nietzsche y América Latina están marcadas por el desencuentro. Lo cual no implica que Nietzsche no haya sido leído en Latinoamérica; pero es diferente aludir a Nietzsche, a asumir una perspectiva nietzscheana. Por eso, en vez de usar a Nietzsche para analizar su moral, para...
Caliban's Voice
The Transformation of English in Post-Colonial Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
In Shakespeare’s Tempest, Caliban says to Miranda and Prospero:
"...you taught me language, and my profit on’t
Is, I know how to curse. "
With this statement, he gives voice to an issue that lies at the centre of post-colonial studies....
Comidas bastardas
Gastronomía, tradición e identidad en América Latina
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
En este mundo globalizado de migraciones e hibridaciones, la comida no solo es un conjunto de alimentos sino además, la propia acción de comer o la reunión de personas en torno a, implica una mezcla de culturas, sabores, pero también de rituales y costumbres.
by Guadalupe Martí-Peña
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Entre los mltiples modos de acercarse a un autor tan polifactico y prolfico como el escritor peruano Mario Vargas Llosa, quien gan el premio Nobel de 2010, Guadalupe Mart-Pea ha elegido ver al novelista como ilusionista. Estudia ese mundo de fantasas y ensueos, ese campo de guerra aparentemente inofensivo...
La Primera Classe
Tránsitos de la Literatura Brasileña en el Extranjero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 14, 2014
¿Qué piensa y hace un profesor ?ya sea brasileño o no? al verse por primera vez delante de un grupo de estudiantes «extranjeros» para hablar sobre literatura brasileña? Aparentemente simple, la pregunta que sirve de punto de partida para los ensayos reunidos en este libro abre camino a una...
María Teresa Gramuglio. La exigencia crítica.
Quince ensayos y una entrevista
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2014
María Teresa Gramuglio es hoy una de las más destacadas críticas literarias y culturales de la Argentina. Beatriz Sarlo, Hilda Sabato, Nora Catelli, Adrián Gorelik, entre sus colegas más próximos, y parte de sus discípulos, todos profesores en distintas universidades del país y del extranjero,...
La última broma de Juan Luis Martínez
No sólo ser otro sino escribir la obra de otro
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Este libro es un breve informe tal como sería deseable que todos lo fueran sobre un hallazgo de incuestionable importancia para la poesía chilena en general y, en particular, para los estudios martinianos.