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Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society by Gerald Graff 9781566630979
€15.53Since its first publication more than fifteen years ago, Literature Against Itself has achieved wide recognition as the first major critique of post-1960s cultural radicalism-and still, one of the best. In it, Gerald Graff argues that the reigning... -
American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition and Brer Rabbit by Emily Zobel Marshall 9781783481101
RRP: €41.65€38.66Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and rules imposed by governments, communities, social groups... -
With a Book in Their Hands: Chicano/a Readers and Readerships across the Centuries by Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez
€50.67First Place Winner of the 2015 International Latino Book Award for Best Latino Focused Nonfiction BookLiterary history is a history of reading. What happens during the act of reading is the subject of the branch of literary scholarship known as... -
Lorca'S Romancero Gitano: Eighteen Commentaries by Herbert Ramsden 9780719078248
RRP: €13.08€11.59This poem-by-poem guide to Lorca's Romancero gitano was prompted by the need for some form of guidance to the overwhelming amount of critical material published on the book, the relative neglect or misunderstanding of certain poems and a concern to... -
Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space by Mary Pat Brady
RRP: €26.17€22.84A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a retirement community-these are the kinds of spatial... -
Media, Communication, Culture: A Global Approach James Lull (San Jose State University) 9780745621913
RRP: €21.41€19.09Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalization. James Lull, one of the leading scholars in the discipline, draws from a wide range of social and... -
Spanish Women Travelers at Home and Abroad, 1850-1920: From Tierra del Fuego to the Land of the Midnight Sun by Jennifer Jenkins Wood 9781611487176
RRP: €66.64€58.66Between 1850 and 1920 women's travel and travel writing underwent an explosion. It was an exciting period in the history of travel, a golden age. While transportation had improved, mass tourism had not yet robbed journeys of their aura of adventure... -
The Spanish American Cronica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture: Modernismo's Unstoppable Presses by Andrew Reynolds 9781611484687
RRP: €109.48€95.83This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the cronica genre to advance their literary preoccupations. Through a variety of modernista writers, including Jose Marti, Amado... -
Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas by Renee Hudson 9781531507190
RRP: €28.55€24.80A necessary reconceptualization of Latinx identity, literature, and politics In Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx... -
Colombia's Forgotten Frontier: A Literary Geography of the Putumayo by Lesley Wylie 9781846319747
€132.70Coming to prominence during the tropical booms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Putumayo has long been a site of mass immigration and exile, of subjugation and insurgency, and of violence. By way of a study of literature of and... -
Translational Turn, A: Latinx Literature into the Mainstream by Marta E. Sanchez
€49.42No contemporary development underscores the transnational linkage between the United States and Spanish-language America today more than the wave of in-migration from Spanish-language countries during the 1980s and 1990s. This development, among others,... -
Festschrift in Honor of Josef Raab: Interamerican Perspectives in the 21st Century by Wilfried Raussert
RRP: €42.84€40.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608012114Author Wilfried RaussertFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans... -
Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing by Kirsten Silva Gruesz
RRP: €47.60€42.92This polished literary history argues forcefully that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a vast network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and... -
Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature by Sheila Marie Contreras
RRP: €21.41€18.92Runner-up, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, 2009 Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature examines a broad array of texts that have contributed to... -
Shaming Into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/O Literature by Stephanie Fetta 9780814255025
€35.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255025Author Stephanie FettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 345g -
Mount Canigo: A Tale of Catalonia Jacint Verdaguer 9781855662988
RRP: €23.79€23.55Catalonia's towering Romantic poet and rebel priest, Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902), delves deep into the Catalan imaginary in his foundational long poem Mount Canigo (1886), recounting the historical and legendary mix, bothtragic and triumphant, of the... -
Querido Diego, Te Abraza Quiela by Elena Poniatowska: By Elena Poniatowska by Nathanial Gardner 9780719081057
RRP: €29.75€26.22One of the threads that runs through Elena Poniatowska's oeuvre is that of foreigners who have fallen in love with Mexico and its people. This is certainly the case of Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela - a brief novel (so short it was originally published... -
The Hernandez Brothers: Love, Rockets, and Alternative Comics by Enrique Garcia
€49.65This study offers a critical examination of the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Mexican-American brothers whose graphic novels are highly influential. The Hernandez brothers started in the alt-comics scene, where their 'Love and Rockets' series... -
Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature Christopher Gonzalez 9780814213506
€134.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814213506Author Christopher GonzalezFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Critical Theory, Cultural Politics, and Latin American Narrative by Steven M. Bell 9780268007959
RRP: €59.50€46.98This volume is a collection of eight of the papers presented at The First Biennial Conference of The Latin American Consortium, entitled Narrative Practices and Cultural Discourse, held in 1990 at the University of Notre Dame. Taking a specific Latin... -
Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera by Manuel Luis Martinez (Assistant Professor of English, University of Indiana, USA) 9780299192846
€35.89Rebelling against bourgeois vacuity, the Beat writers and artists have long symbolized a spirit of freedom and radical democracy. Manuel Luis Martinez offers an eye-opening challenge to this characterization of the Beats, juxtaposing them against Chicano... -
Shaming Into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/O Literature by Stephanie Fetta 9780814213858
€112.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814213858Author Stephanie FettaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 513g -
Domestic Negotiations: Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art by Marci R. McMahon 9780813560946
RRP: €36.89€27.14This interdisciplinary study explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to actively claim their own histories. Through "negotiation"-a concept that accounts for... -
Literary Currents in Hispanic America by Pedro Henriquez-Urena 9780674186965
€65.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674186965Author Pedro Henriquez-UrenaFormat HardbackPage Count 351Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 671g -
Delmira Agustini, Sexual Seduction, and Vampiric Conquest by Cathy Login Jrade 9780300167740
€61.37Delmira Agustini (1886-1914) has been acclaimed as one of the foremost modernistas and the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Critics and the reading public alike were immediately taken by the originality and power of her verse,... -
La Mano Que Escribe: Literatura, Arte y Pensamiento by Zoe Jimenez Corretjer 9781425762193
€28.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425762193Author Zoe Jimenez CorretjerFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 399g -
From the Edge: Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print by Allison E. Fagan 9780813583792
RRP: €35.69€25.50Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identities, and sometimes pushed to the edge by authorities who seek to restrict their freedom. As this... -
From the Edge: Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print by Allison E. Fagan 9780813583808
RRP: €147.56€105.59Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identities, and sometimes pushed to the edge by authorities who seek to restrict their freedom. As this... -
Voices of the Storyteller: Cuba's Lino Novas Calvo by Lorraine Elena Roses 9780313250774
€77.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313250774Author Lorraine Elena RosesFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Nuevas Voces Poeticas: A Dialogue about New Chican@ Identities by Isaac Chavarria 9780941720366
RRP: €12.73€11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941720366Author Isaac ChavarriaFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Slough PressPublisher Slough PressWeight(grams) 127g -
Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/A Literature Christopher Gonzalez 9780814254417
€41.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254417Author Christopher GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty-First-Century Transnational Latinx Literature by Cristina Rodriguez 9780813948058
€122.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813948058Author Cristina RodriguezFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams)... -
Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature: Explorations of Place and Belonging by Maya Socolovsky 9780813561189
RRP: €147.56€105.59This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and... -
Domestic Negotiations: Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art by Marci R. McMahon 9780813560953
RRP: €147.56€105.59This interdisciplinary study explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to actively claim their own histories. Through "negotiation"-a concept that accounts for... -
Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature: Explorations of Place and Belonging by Maya Socolovsky 9780813561172
RRP: €36.89€27.14This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and... -
Border Crossings and Beyond: The Life and Works of Sandra Cisneros by Carmen Haydee Rivera 9780313345180
€77.98Author of The House on Mango Street, which has sold more than two million copies in English alone, activist, MacArthur grant genius, figure of inspiration and controversy, Sandra Cisneros is unequivocally one of America's most important and much... -
Noche Buena: Hispanic American Christmas Stories by Nicolas Kanellos 9780195135282
RRP: €32.71€14.74A family seated round the fireplace Singing and making merry; A sprightly waltz played with grace Noche Buena brings us all the magic of the Christmas season as seen through the eyes of the Hispanic Americans who celebrate it. Christmas is at times a... -
Noche Buena: Hispanic American Christmas Stories by Nicolas Kanellos 9780195135275
RRP: €44.02€30.29A family seated round the fireplace Singing and making merry; A sprightly waltz played with grace Noche Buena brings us all the magic of the Christmas season as seen through the eyes of the Hispanic Americans who celebrate it. Christmas is at times a... -
Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States by Nicolas Kanellos 9780195138245
RRP: €111.86€88.39Herencia (meaning "inheritance" or "heritage") is the first anthology to bring together literature from the entire history of Hispanic writing in the United States, from the age of exploration to the present. The product of a ten-year... -
Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States by Nicolas Kanellos 9780195138252
RRP: €37.47€26.12Herencia (meaning "inheritance" or "heritage") is the first anthology to bring together literature from the entire history of Hispanic writing in the United States, from the age of exploration to the present. The product of a ten-year...