Central South American category: 593 books
Machado de Assis
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil’s greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive English-language examination of Machado since Helen Caldwell’s...
Lima Barreto
New Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis...
Postcolonial Ecologies
Literatures of the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific...
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...
José Carlos Mariátegui’s Unfinished Revolution
Politics, Poetics, and Change in 1920s Peru
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Comprising six full-length chapters, a comprehensive Introduction and Conclusion, this monograph is extensive in scale and scope. It provides fresh readings of key writings of Mariátegui, one of Latin America’s most important and revolutionary political, cultural and aesthetic theorists, through...
The Things That Fly in the Night
Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the soucouyant, or Old Hag—an aged woman by day who sheds her skin during night’s darkest hours in order...
Bolivia en el siglo XXI
Trayectorias históricas y proyecciones políticas, económicas y socioculturales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 28, 2019
En un intento por comprender la compleja realidad sociopolítica y económica que ha experimentado Bolivia en el último siglo de su historia, este volumen de estudios interdisciplinarios analiza, desde diferentes perspectivas científicas y culturales, las diversas trayectorias de personas y grupos...
Homenaje a Jaime Concha
Releyendo a contraluz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Este libro es el primero en rendirle un homenaje al gran critico chileno, Jaime Concha. Reune reflexiones personales de unos amigos academicos; ensayos sobre su docencia en Concepcion y su obra en general; estudios inspirados en los libros de Concha sobre Huidobro, Mistral y Neruda; capitulos dedicados...
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis;Gregory Rabassa;Enylton de Sa Rego;Gilberto Pinheiro Passos
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 1997
Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man" writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. But while he may be dead he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature Brazil's greatest...
by Alberto Ríos
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
“In this rhapsodic series of poems, Ríos presents the story of Ventura and Clemente Ríos, a married couple living near the United States-Mexico border. . . . Ríos’s project [is] indebted to magic realism but rooted in naturalism.”—The New Yorker“Ríos creates the feeling of enchanted...
Unbecoming Female Monsters
Witches, Vampires, and Virgins
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires, and Virgins is a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary work that traces the construct of female monsters as an embodiment of socio-cultural fears of female sexuality and reproductive powers. This book examines the female sexual maturation cycle and the...
Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview
And Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
With the release of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in 1998, journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer “capable of befriending his readers.” After exchanging several letters with Bolaño, Maristain formed a friendship of her own, culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist...
by Gerald Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1927), wrote two of the great novels of the twentieth century, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. As novelist, short story writer and journalist, García Márquez has one of literature's most instantly recognizable...
Roberto Bolaño's Fiction
An Expanding Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging...