Central South American category: 593 books
by Gianluca Delfino
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Gianluca Delfino's encounter with one of the Caribbean's most controversial authors illuminates Wilson Harris's imaginative approach to history and time. Delfino references several novels, with a special focus on The Infinite Rehearsal (1987), Jonestown (1996), and The Dark Jester (2001). His analysis...
Caribbean-English Passages
Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Tobias Döring uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience.
Caribbean-English Passages opens an innovative...
Mujeres en tránsito
Viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamérica (1830-1910)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Mujeres en transito: viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamerica (1810-1930) parte de la incidencia que los relatos de viaje (extranjeros y locales) tuvieron en la formacion discursiva de las sociedades sudamericanas. El texto revisa la limitada consideracion que ha recibido la escritura femenina dentro...
Disturbers of the Peace
Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Kelly Josephs explores the prevalence of madness in Caribbean texts to show how it functions both as a critique of colonialism and as a literary innovation for representing national identity.
Tropical Apocalypse
Haiti and the Caribbean End Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Martin Munro offers both a history of apocalyptic culture in the Caribbean and an up-to-date account of the social, political, environmental, religious, and economic factors that have brought apocalypse back to prominence in the region.
Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico
Literary and Cultural Inquiries
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The rewritings of the Mexican colonia discussed in this book question a present reality of marginalities and inequality, of imposed political domination, and of hybrid subjectivities. In their examination of the novels, films, poetry, and chronicles produced in and outside of Mexico since 2000, the...
A Saint Is Born in Chima
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
When the paralyzed cripple Domingo Vidal is rescued unsinged from a burning house, the people of Chima believe they have witnessed a miracle. Domingo becomes their patron "saint," and tales of his miracles multiply. Domingo makes the rains come, cures the blind and lame, and swells barren wombs with...
Tensions of Modernity
Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Politics today is marked by tension between claims of universal human rights and diversity. From the war on terror to immigration, one of the major challenges facing liberalism is to understand the scope of equality in a world in which certain peoples are perceived to reject and/or violently resist...
Citizenship Under Pressure
The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
This is the first book-length study of the interaction of culture, politics and society in Jamaica's formative postcolonial moment, the years between 1972 and 1980.
Postcolonial Tourism
Literature, Culture, and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in highly exoticized island states that are still grappling with the legacies of western colonialism, Carrigan contends that postcolonial writers not only dramatize...
In the Shadows of Divine Perfection
Derek Walcott's Omeros
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
In the Shadows of Divine Perfection provides an examination of Derek Walcott's Omeros 1990)- the St. Lucian poet's longest work, and the piece that secured his Nobel Laureate-that reveals the deep-seated bond between the root narratives of ancient Greece to the cultural products and practices of the...
Postcards from Rio
Favelas and the Contested Geographies of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Through the analysis of a variety of favela-based visual cultural productions by young people and contemporary theorists, Postcards from Rio examines the complex relationship between citizenship and urban space in contemporary Rio de Janeiro.
By analyzing videos and photographs, Kátia da Costa...
by Nicole Roberts and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book is distinctive by its trilingual nature; the short stories by Caribbean women writers appear in English, French, Spanish.
Acknowledged Legislator
Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martín Espada. It is also, to date, the only published book-length, single-author study of Espada currently in existence. Relying on innovative, highly original...