Central South American category: 593 books
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.
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...
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...
Pathologies of Paradise
Caribbean Detours
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Pathologies of Paradise presents the rich complexity of anglophone Caribbean literature from pluralistic perspectives that contest the reduction of the region to Edenic or infernal stereotypes. But rather than reiterate the familiar critiques of these stereotypes, Supriya Nair draws on the trope of...
Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature
From Alexis to the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Focusing on the literary representation of performance practices in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean literature, Jeannine Murray-Román shows how a shared regional aesthetic emerges from the descriptions of music, dance, and oral storytelling events. Because the historical circumstances...
Gauchos and Foreigners
Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
In Gauchos and Foreigners: Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine Countryside Ariana Huberman discusses the relationship between the gaucho figure and the 'foreigner' in Argentine rural literature. The narratives of William Henry Hudson, Benito Lynch and Alberto Gerchunoff present English...
401 Vincy Caribbean Proverbs
Amazing Expressions to Guide You
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
VINCY CARIBBEAN PROVERBS AND IDIOMS SERIES Uncovers amazing proverbs of Vincentian Caribbean culture, charged with wisdom, philosophy and laughter.
This book, 401 Vincy Caribbean Proverbs, is as lively and witty as the English Caribbean lingo it represents. MARLON JOSEPH, EXECUTIVE OFFICER, S.V.G....
Eric Williams and the Anticolonial Tradition
The Making of a Diasporan Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
In the first full-length treatment of Eric Williams as an intellectual, Maurice St. Pierre shows how the former prime minister's experiences in Trinidad and England radicalized him, leading him both to challenge colonial exploitation of Trinbagonians and to work to educate and mobilize them in the struggle for independence.
by Richard F. Patteson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Antoni's work reflects on the nature of human consciousness and its relationship to language, culture and storytelling itself.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
In Spain, the two hundred years that elapsed between the beginning of the early modern period and the final years of the Habsburg Empire saw a profusion of works written by women. Whether secular or religious, noble or middle class, early modern Spanish women actively composed creative works such...
Edwidge Danticat
A Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
An accessible guide and primary resource for general readers, students, and critics alike, this collection of essays on Edwidge Danticat is the first book devoted to her work, and it encompasses the whole corpus, not only Danticat's novels and short fiction but also her travel writing and her writing for children.
The Storyworld Accord
Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
“Storyworlds,” mental models of context and environment within which characters function, is a concept used to describe what happens in narrative. Narratologists agree that the concept of storyworlds best captures the ecology of narrative interpretation by allowing a fuller appreciation of the...
Writing from the Hearth
Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
If space is important in the realm of imagination and a key theme in feminist theory, cross-cultural studies of social maps reveal that men and women's spatial experiences differ; women rarely control physical or social space directly. Positing the thesis that women's writing of Francophone Africa...
Representing Queer and Transgender Identity
Fluid Bodies in the Hispanic Caribbean and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Fluid Bodies traces the intersections of global movement with transgender and queer identities from authors and artists of the Hispanic Caribbean. Utilizing the theme of fluidity and travel, Fluid Bodies analyzes novels, graphic novels, theatre, and performance art. These works demonstrate how transgender...