Central South American category: 593 books
The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa
Martin Luis Guzman and the Politics of Life Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Martin Luis Guzman was many things throughout his career in twentieth-century Mexico: a soldier in Pancho Villa's revolutionary army, a journalist-in-exile, one of the most esteemed novelists and scholars of the revolutionary era, and an elder statesman and politician. In The Man Who Wrote Pancho...
by Raymond Leslie Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Smitten by the modernity of Cervantes and Borges at an early age, Carlos Fuentes has written extensively on the cultures of the Americas and elsewhere. His work includes over a dozen novels, among them The Death of Artemio Cruz, Christopher Unborn, The Old Gringo, and Terra Nostra, several volumes...
The Memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture
Representing the Black Masculine Subject in Narratives of Mourning and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This book examines the memoir of Toussaint Louverture—a former slave, general in the French army, and leader of the Haitian Revolution—and the memoir of his son, Isaac.
The Revolution and its leaders have been studied and written about extensively. Until recently (2004), however, the memoir...
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Borges, Fiction and Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Best known as Jorge Luis Borges’s right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914−1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic fiction, are now ripe for reassessment. This volume looks at Bioy’s extensive oeuvre which offers...
by Jay Corwin
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of Solitude, his fiction is widely read and studied throughout the world.
This invaluable Guide gives a wide-ranging but in-depth survey of the global...
The Modernist Movement in Brazil
A Literary Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
“Ask an authority on Brazilian culture what he considers to be the most significant artistic event in Brazil during this century,” observes John Nist, “and he will quickly reply, ‘The Modern Art Week Exhibition, staged in Sao Paulo in February, 1922.’ This public demonstration and aesthetic...
by Stephanie Merrim
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture tracks the three spectacular forces of New World literary culture—cities, festivals, and wonder—from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, from the Old World to the New, and from Mexico to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. It treats...
Caribbean Literary Discourse
Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Caribbean Literary Discourseis a study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers.
Caribbean Literary Discourse opens the challenging world of language choices...
Writing in Limbo
Modernism and Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Simon Gikandi’s view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity—a relationship in which the Caribbean writer, unable to escape a history encoded by Europe, accepts the challenge of rewriting...
by Bruce King
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
V. S. Naipaul is a reader-friendly introduction to the writing of one of the most influential contemporary authors and the 2001 Nobel laureate in Literature. Bruce King provides a novel by novel analysis of the fiction with attention to structure, significance, and Naipaul's development as a writer,...
by Claudette M. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
The Devil in the Details engages respectfully with previous interpretations of 19th century Cuban antislavery narratives, and suggests other ways of thinking about and understanding them in the light of contemporary ideas.
Crossing the Line
Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Crossing the Line examines a group of early nineteenth-century novels by white creoles, writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their experiences in Britain’s Caribbean colonies. Colonial subjects residing in the West Indian colonies "beyond the line," these writers were perceived...
by Pedro Henríquez Ureña
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2012
El presente volumen recoge los estudios que escribió Henríquez Ureña sobre temas mexicanos: letras coloniales, literatura de la época de la independencia, crónicas de la empresa ateneísta, notas sobre escritores, artistas e instituciones y estudios sobre el español y el folclore de México....
Reimagining the Caribbean
Conversations among the Creole, English, French, and Spanish Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This volume brings together scholars working in different languages—Creole, French, English, Spanish—and modes of cultural production—literature, art, film, music—to suggest how best to model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent aspects of the Caribbean in the classroom....