Central South American category: 593 books
Derek Walcott
Politics and Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
?An important contribution to the study of Walcott?s poetry and plays.??Modernism/modernity ?Walcott, [Burnett] says, has assimilated western tradition to his own project, using it to create a new plural world of open-ended possibilities. . . . A book that should be of interest to any student of Walcott?s...
by Louis J. Parascandola and Carl A. Wade
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The ten essays in this volume employ a variety of literary, cultural and sociological approaches to illuminate the art and imagination of a writer celebrated as one of the most complex authors of the Harlem Renaissance.
Lorca & Jimenez
Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A unique gathering of poems by two great twentieth-century poets, with the original Spanish versions and powerful English translations on facing pages. In a new preface, editor and translator Robert Bly explores what the poems reveal today about politics, the spirit, and the purpose of art.
by Rebecca E. Biron
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Blending cultural studies, literary analysis, and political and intellectual history, Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams shows how Elena Garro’s life and work expose the impasses inherent to the concept of Mexican modernity. While Garro is well known for the gossip and conflicts she created...
The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora
Seven Centuries of Literature and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Long before the concept of “globalization,” the Portuguese constructed a vast empire that extended into Africa, India, Brazil, and mid-Atlantic territories, as well as parts of China, Southeast Asia, and Japan. Using this empire as its starting point and spanning seven centuries and four continents,...
Out of Context
Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 1993
In Jorge Luis Borges's finely wrought, fantastic stories, so filigreed with strange allusions, critics have consistently found little to relate to the external world, to history--in short, to reality. Out of Context corrects this shortsighted view and reveals the very real basis of the Argentine master's...
Market Aesthetics
The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In Market Aesthetics, Elena Machado Sáez explores the popularity of Caribbean diasporic writing within an interdisciplinary, comparative, and pan-ethnic framework. She contests established readings of authors such as Junot Díaz, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Robert Antoni while showcasing...
A Cultural History of Underdevelopment
Latin America in the U.S. Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
A Cultural History of Underdevelopment explores the changing place of Latin America in U.S. culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the recent U.S.-Cuba détente. In doing so, it uncovers the complex ways in which Americans have imagined the global geography of poverty and progress, as the hemispheric...
La "nueva narrativa" en los años noventa
El Manifiesto Crack en la teoría-crítica latinoamerica
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 26, 2017
El libro se propone estudiar el entramado de diálogos entre la literatura y la praxis crítica reponiendo el peso que esta última, junto a otros factores, ejerce en la conformación del estado del campo literario y en la determinación de su canon. Particularmente, la problemática se centra en...
Race, Culture, and Identity
Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from NZgritude to CrZolitZ
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
In this groundbreaking book, Shireen Lewis gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race, culture, and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium. Examining...
Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature
Remitting the Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural study responds to the general trend in migration discourse that presents the Caribbean experience...
Violence and Naming
On Mexico and the Promise of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Reclaiming the notion of literature as an institution essential for reflecting on the violence of culture, history, and politics, Violence and Naming exposes the tension between the irreducible, constitutive violence of language and the reducible, empirical violation of others. Focusing on an array...
by Jorge Aguilar Mora
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Los ensayos aquí reunidos crean otra literatura mexicana, fundada en una lectura que no duda en dar rodeos por otras literaturas en busca de ejemplos y diferencias esenciales, de continuidades y de rupturas; una lectura donde las literaturas son la literatura y la digresión es generosidad, desvío indispensable y agradecible.
Cuba's Wild East
A Literary Geography of Oriente
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Cuba's Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente recounts a literary history of modern Cuba that has four distinctive and interrelated characteristics. Oriented to the east of the island, it looks aslant at a Cuban national literature that has sometimes been indistinguishable from a history of Havana....