Central South American category: 593 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction...
Rereading the Spanish American Essay
Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women’s Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
"The essays are clearly chosen to be different in style and content from the 'malestream' canon, and the book as a whole is full of old friends and welcome new surprises.... It will be of interest not only to Latin Americanists, but also to the wider community interested in non-European gender studies...
by David William Foster
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
First published in 1987 (this second edition in 1992), the Handbook of Latin American Literature offers readers the opportunity to explore this literary history in the English Language and constitutes an ideological approach to Latin American Literature. It provides both concise information concerning...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of women's writing in Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it explores women's literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organized...
Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America
Intervening Acts
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Women have always been the muses who inspire the creativity of men, but how do women become the creators of art themselves? This was the challenge faced by Latin American women who aspired to write in the 1920s and 1930s. Though women's roles were opening up during this time, women writers were not...
Latin American Women Dramatists
Theater, Texts, and Theories
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1999
The book highlights the many possibilities of the innovative work of these dramatists, and this will, it is to be hoped, help the editors to achieve one of their other key goals: productions of the plays in English." —Times Literary Supplement
This thoughtfully crafted book with its insightful...
by Debora Cordeiro Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
The Jewish presence in Latin America is a recent chapter in Jewish history that has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores the complexity of Jewish identity in Latin America through the fictional Jewish...
Satire in Colonial Spanish America
Turning the New World Upside Down
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Satire, the use of criticism cloaked in wit, has been employed since classical times to challenge the established order of society. In colonial Spanish America during the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, many writers used satire to resist Spanish-imposed social and literary forms and find...
Poetics of Change
The New Spanish-American Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Too often literary criticism is academic exercise rather than creative act. For the multifaceted Julio Ortega—respected poet, dramatist, and novelist in his own right—the act of criticism becomes profoundly creative, his incisive readings of the text far transcending the pedantry that may falsely...
Mario Vargas Llosa
A Life of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 at the age of seventy-four, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has held pivotal roles in the evolution and revolutions of modern Latin American literature. Perhaps surprisingly, no complete history of Vargas Llosa's works, placed in biographical and historical context,...
The Esai Poems
Breaking Bread with the Darkness I
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
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American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured decades in the penal system before becoming a renowned poet and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents, with brutal honesty, the daily complexities of adult...
by Alex Nava
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
In Wonder and Exile in the New World, Alex Nava explores the border regions between wonder and exile, particularly in relation to the New World. It traces the preoccupation with the concept of wonder in the history of the Americas, beginning with the first European encounters, goes on to investigate...
The Dissenting Voice
The New Essay of Spanish America, 1960-1985
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Political, social, and aesthetic change marked Latin American society in the years between 1960 and 1985. In this book, Martin Stabb explores how these changes made their way into the essayistic writings of twenty-six Spanish American intellectuals. Stabb posits that dissent—against ideology, against...
After Translation
The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Translation—from both a theoretical and a practical point of view—articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean.
After...