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Post-Conflict Literature
Human Rights, Peace, Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace. Essays put insights from Peace and Conflict Studies into dialog with...
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater
Upstaging Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative team, in the...
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...
Dragons in the Land of the Condor
Writing Tusán in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in the Land of the Condor Ignacio López-Calvo studies the influence of a Chinese ethnic background in the writing of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sino-Peruvian authors.
While authors like Siu Kam Wen...
Capital Fictions
The Literature of Latin America's Export Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. During this Export Age, entire regions were given over to the cultivation of export commodities such as coffee...
by Jeannette Allsopp and John R. Rickford
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This anthology offers a refreshing and novel look at the linguistic and cultural practices of Caribbean societies, from the perspective of leading Caribbean scholars.
The Limits of Identity
Politics and Poetics in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José Martí and José Enrique...
Heart of Creation
The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers.
The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or...
Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature
Between Romanticism and Formalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between literature and...
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-...
Violence and Victimhood in Hispanic Crime Fiction
Essays on Contemporary Works
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
At the heart of crime fiction is an investigation into an act of violence. Studies of the genre have generally centered on the relationship between the criminal and the investigator. Focusing on contemporary crime fiction from the Spanish-speaking world, this collection of new essays explores the...
by Raymond Leslie Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century. Indeed, the desire...
Narrative Mutations
Discourses of Heredity and Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of "race" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and even radical-narratives retain physical and behavioral heredity as a guiding trope. The persistence...
Rewriting Womanhood
Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
In Rewriting Womanhood, Nancy LaGreca explores the subversive refigurings of womanhood in three novels by women writers: La hija del bandido (1887) by Refugio Barragán de Toscano (Mexico; 1846–1916), Blanca Sol (1888) by Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Peru; 1845–1909), and Luz y sombra (1903)...