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Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays of his...
Tracing Dominican Identity
The Writings of Pedro Henríquez Ureña
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
The author analyzes and discusses the socio-historical meanings and implications of Pedro Henríquez Ureña's (1884-1946) writings on language. This important twentieth century Latin American intellectual is an unavoidable reference in Hispanic Linguistics and Cultural Studies.
New Argentine Film
Other Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the "new Argentine cinema" phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films, including recent award-winners at all of the major festivals.
by Elizabeth Smith Rousselle
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Using each chapter to juxtapose works by one female and one male Spanish writer, Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920 explores the concept of Spanish modernity. Issues explored include the changing roles of women, the male hysteric, and the mother and Don Juan figure.
Surrealism in Latin American Literature
Searching for Breton's Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Charting surrealism in Latin American literature from its initial appearance in Argentina in 1928 to the surrealist-inspired work of several writers in the 1970s, Melanie Nicholson argues that surrealism has exercised a significant and positive influence over twentieth-century Latin American literature, particularly poetry.
Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction
The Impact of Feminism and Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Current scholarship on Latin American historical fiction has failed to take feminism and postcolonialism into account. This study uses these important contemporary discourses as a starting point for a new definition of the Latin American historical novel that includes national identity, magical realism, historical intertextuality, and symbolism.
Arguedas / Vargas Llosa
Dilemmas and Assemblages
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
An English-language translation of the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and LASA Premio Iberoamericano award-winning Spanish-language book, Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa. Dilemas y ensamblajes, Mabel Moraña offers the first comparative study of two of contemporary Latin America's central literary figures: Mario Vargas Llosa and Jose Maria Arguedas.
Poetry After the Invention of América
Don’t Light the Flower
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book...
New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative
Post-National Literatures and the Canon
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe and North and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide answers to the environmental crisis. Diverse ecocritical perspectives add new meaning to the novels, short stories, drama, poetry, films, and documentaries analyzed in this timely and engaged collection.
Spanish and Portuguese across Time, Place, and Borders
Studies in Honour of Milton M. Azevedo
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2014
Spanish and Portuguese Across Time covers a diverse range of topics with a common focus, on the dynamic nature of languages and the social forces that shape them across time, place, and borders, and demonstrates how linguistic principles can offer productive angles to the study of literature.
Received Medievalisms
A Cognitive Geography of Viennese Women’s Convents
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women's role and agency.
The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States
History, Nationhood and the Search for Origins
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece.
Death in a Cold Climate
A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre, from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic ideal in the publishing phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo .