Central South American category: 593 books

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Rootedness

The Ramifications of a Metaphor

by Christy Wampole
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016

People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth—and nations—from which they came. In Rootedness, Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of the root—surfacing often in an unexpected variety...
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The Américas Award

Honoring Latino/a Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the Americas

by Candace Doerr-Stevens, Patricia Enciso, Leanne M. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

First awarded in 1993, the Américas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean or the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural-international...
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Calypso Jews

Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination

by Sarah Phillips Casteel
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016

In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these historical migrations through the lens of...
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by Carl Senna
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015

This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.
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Empire of Neglect

The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism

by Christopher Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018

Following the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling...
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by Ben Etherington
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017

This book fundamentally rethinks a pervasive and controversial concept in literary criticism and the history of ideas. Primitivism has long been accepted as a transhistorical tendency of the "civilized" to idealize that primitive condition against which they define themselves. In the modern...
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The Scroll and the Cross

1,000 Years of Jewish-Hispanic Literature

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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013

Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This groundbreaking, eclectic book of readings, edited by Ilan Stavans, whom The Washington Post described as "one of our foremost cultural critics," offers a sideboard of the ups and downs of that partnership. It includes...
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The Cross-Dressed Caribbean

Writing, Politics, Sexualities

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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014

Studies of sexuality in Caribbean culture are on the rise, focusing mainly on homosexuality and homophobia or on regional manifestations of normative and nonnormative sexualities. The Cross-Dressed Caribbean extends this exploration by using the trope of transvestism not only to analyze texts and...
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Versos Sencillos

A Dual-Language Edition

by José Martí
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015

In 1890, the great Cuban revolutionary leader José Martí wrote his most famous poetry, Versos Sencillos, in a small town called Haines Falls in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Sincere and intensely personal in tone, these verses form a unique autobiographical expression yet have world-wide appeal....
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New World Literacy

Writing and Culture Across the Atlantic, 1500-1700

by Carlos Alberto González Sánchez
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011

This book on the role of written and iconographic communication in the Atlantic World combines a broad outlook, geographically and chronologically, with the precise treatment of specific evidence extracted from the sources. The author argues that diatribes against chivalric fiction and the Index of...
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New World Postcolonial

The Political Thought of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

by James W. Fuerst
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018

New World Postcolonial presents the first full-length study to treat both parts of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's foundational text Royal Commentaries of the Incas as a seminal work of political thought in the formation of the early Americas and the early-modern period. It is also among a handful of...
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by Manuel González Prada
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2003

Manuel González Prada was a powerful Peruvian writer and political reformer whose essays and speeches influenced generations of young radicals. He founded the Party of National Unity in 1891, was linked to the anarchist movement, and served as Director of the National Library from 1912-1914. His...
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Literary Bondage

Slavery in Cuban Narrative

by William Luis
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014

In the nineteenth century, the Cuban economy rested on the twin pillars of sugar and slaves. Slavery was abolished in 1886, but, one hundred years later, Cuban authors were still writing antislavery narratives. William Luis explores this seeming paradox in his groundbreaking study Literary Bondage, asking...
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Latino/a Literature in the Classroom

Twenty-first-century approaches to teaching

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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015

In one of the most rapidly growing areas of literary study, this volume provides the first comprehensive guide to teaching Latino/a literature in all variety of learning environments. Essays by internationally renowned scholars offer an array of approaches and methods to the teaching of the novel,...
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