Central South American category: 593 books
From Amazons to Zombies
Monsters in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America—Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean—are named for monstrous races of women warriors, big-footed giants and cannibals? Through history, monsters inhabit human imaginings of discovery and creation, and also degeneration, chaos, and death. Latin...
by Sabine Köllmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This companion to the work of Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa traces his fictional and non-fictional writing throughout the different phases of a career spanning more than fifty years. His lifelong dedication to literature goes hand in hand with his commitment as a public intellectual,...
Mexico in Its Novel
A Nation's Search for Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Mexico in Its Novel is a perceptive examination of the Mexican reality as revealed through the nation's novel. The author presents the Mexican novel as a cultural phenomenon: a manifestation of the impact of history upon the nation, an attempt by a people to come to grips with and understand what has...
by Lynne Macedo
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
This book has been divided into two sections, each of which contains articles whose focus is predominantly on one aspect of Dabydeen's writing - his poetry or his novels.
Adalberto Ortiz
From Margin to Center
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Pablo Adalberto Ortiz Quiñones (1914–2002) was one of the most gifted writers in Ecuador and all of Latin America. Yet outside of Ecuador and amongst Afro-Hispanic literature scholars in the United States, little critical attention has been given to this pioneer whose multi-genre contributions...
Race, Romance, and Rebellion
Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Colleen O'Brien shows why, in nineteenth-century literatures of the Americas, stories of racial rebellion coincided with stories of cross-racial romance and how their concern with race and gender united the United States with the Caribbean and Africa.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Rubén Darío (1867–1916), the undisputed standard-bearer of the Modernist movement in Hispanic letters, was born in Nicaragua. In 1886 he went to Chile, where he published Azul (1888), his first important book of poems and stories. Later he lived for extended periods in Argentina, Spain, and France,...
Jean Rhys at "World's End"
Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The Caribbean Islands have long been an uneasy meeting place among indigenous peoples, white European colonists, and black slave populations. Tense oppositions in Caribbean culture—colonial vs. native, white vs. black, male conqueror vs. female subject—supply powerful themes and spark complex narrative...
Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
“Believe me: the benefits of blindness have been greatly exaggerated. If I could see, I would never leave the house, I’d stay indoors reading the many books that surround me.”
—Jorge Luis Borges
Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist...
by Patricia Ismond
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
This book deals with the Caribbean phase of Walcott's poetry.
The Shattered Mirror
Representations of Women in Mexican Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Popular images of women in Mexico—conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television—were long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized fallen woman. But new representations of women and their roles in Mexican society have shattered the...
Prospero's Daughter
The Prose of Rosario Castellanos
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
A member of Mexico's privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America's most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O'Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos' prose writings, focusing specifically on...
Essays on Hilda Hilst
Between Brazil and World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
This book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English. It brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America’s most inventive and innovative authors. Nine essays by scholars and translators reflect about various aspects of her work,...
Gabriel García Márquez
Solitude and Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1993
Much good criticism of Mrquez came in the wake of One Hundred Years of Solitude and the perception of his fiction has been dominated by that novel. It seemed the implicit goal to which the earlier fiction has been striving. By concentrating on the later novels, including The General in his Labyrinth,...