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Carnal Knowledge: Essays on the Flesh, Sex and Sexuality in Hispanic Letters and Films by Pamela Bacarisse 9781802078893
RRP: $73.50$66.63Este libro es una colección de ensayos presentados en el Simposio de dos días sobre Sexo y Sexualidad en el Cine y las Letras Hispanas que tendría lugar en la Universidad de Pittsburgh en abril de 1991. Los invitados de honor fueron Gustavo Sainz, el... -
Reality and Expression in the Poetry of Carlos Pellicer by George Melnykovich 9780807892114
RRP: $62.90$58.95Volume 211 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807892114Author George MelnykovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of... -
Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution by Laurie R. Lambert 9780813944258
$103.68In 1979, the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement under Maurice Bishop overthrew the government of the Caribbean island country of Grenada, establishing the People's Revolutionary Government. The United States under President Reagan infamously invaded... -
Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat by Maia L. Butler 9781496839886
$66.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rum Histories: Drinking in Atlantic Literature and Culture by Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt 9780813946597
RRP: $58.70$56.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813946597Author Jennifer Poulos NesbittFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia... -
Taking Flight: Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad by Jennifer Donahue 9781496828705
RRP: $73.40$69.09Caribbean women have long utilized the medium of fiction to break the pervasive silence surrounding abuse and exploitation. Contemporary works by such authors as Tiphanie Yanique and Nicole Dennis-Benn illustrate the deep-rooted consequences of trauma... -
Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Placido, and Afro-Latino Religion by Matthew Pettway 9781496824967
RRP: $228.90$212.84Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (Placido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both nineteenth-century authors used Catholicism as a symbolic Language... -
'Membering Austin Clarke: A Writer, A Life by Paul Barrett 9781771124775
RRP: $73.40$60.73'Membering Austin Clarke reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like.Despite being one of Canada's most widely published, and most richly... -
Connecting Histories: Francophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past by Bonnie Thomas 9781496810557
RRP: $228.90$212.00The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands scholarly attention. Its authors treat the traumatic... -
Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature by J. Dillon Brown 9781628464757
RRP: $228.90$212.00This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of emigre novelists based in postwar London, a group often referred to as ""the Windrush... -
Edwidge Danticat: The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary by Nadege T. Clitandre 9780813941868
RRP: $117.60$117.52Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat is one of the most recognized writers today. Her debut novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was an Oprah Book Club selection, and works such as Krik? Krak! and Brother, I'm Dying have earned her a MacArthur... -
Idle Talk, Deadly Talk: The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature by Ana Rodriguez Navas 9780813941615
$136.12Chaucer called it ""spiritual manslaughter""; Barthes and Benjamin deemed it dangerous linguistic nihilism. But gossip-long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals-is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana... -
Staging Creolization: Women's Theatre and Performance frm the French Caribbean by Emily Sahakian 9780813940083
$73.86In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina Cesaire, Maryse Conde, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that premiered in the French Caribbean or in France in the 1980s and 1990s and soon thereafter traveled to the United States... -
Caribbean Shadows and Victorian Ghosts: Women's Writing and Decolonization by Kathleen Renk 9780813918365
$48.99Renk demonstrates how contemporary Anglophone Caribbean women's writing radically subverts the myth of the family as it is constructed in 19th century British and colonial texts. These women writers reconfigure Caribbean identity, family, and nation... -
Impossible Returns: Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora by Iraida H. Lopez 9780813061030
$160.86Since travel restrictions from the United States to Cuba began to ease, thousands of Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans have been able to reunite with family and visit their homeland. Yet the subject of return in the Cuban diaspora remains understudied. In... -
Creolizing the Metropole: Migrant Caribbean Identities in Literature and Film by H. Adlai Murdoch 9780253001207
RRP: $50.38$43.76Creolizing the Metropole is a comparative study of postwar West Indian migration to the former colonial capitals of Paris and London. It studies the effects of this population shift on national and cultural identity and traces the postcolonial Caribbean... -
Word Mingas: Oralitegraphies and Mirrored Visions on Oralitures and Indigenous Contemporary Literatures by Miguel Rocha Vivas 9781469667348
RRP: $136.50$121.55Word Mingas is an encompassing study of oralitures--multilayered cultural knowledge shared through the power of orality--and written literatures by authors from Colombia and other regions in the hemisphere who self-identify as Indigenous. In... -
2666: en busqueda de la totalidad perdida by Pedro P. Salas Camus 9781945234453
RRP: $62.90$60.48Es 2666 de Roberto Bolano una novela total? Pueden coexistir fragmentos y totalidades en un mismo libro? Hay una columna vertebral que estructure la multitud de espacios, personajes y temas representados en 2666? Estas y otras preguntas son el objeto de... -
Bajo el Cielo Peruano: The Devout World of Peralta Barnuevo by David F. Slade 9780807892954
$63.13This title brings 18th-century Peruvian texts back into print. This critical edition makes ""La Galeria de la Omnipotencia"" and ""Pasion y Triunfo de Christo"" available in print for the first time in over 260... -
Una armonia de caprichos: el discurso de respuesta en la prosa de Ruben Dario by Francisco Jose Solares Larrave 9780807892923
RRP: $69.20$59.16Through a political and cultural reading of Ruben Dario's canonical works, Francisco Solares-Larrave articulates an innovative view of Spanish American modernismo as a cultural reply to Europe. Unlike other studies of the politics of Spanish American... -
Fire and Ice: The Poetry of Xavier Villaurrutia by Merlin M. Forster 9780807891698
RRP: $62.90$58.23This study concentrates on close analysis and evaluation of his poetry. It moves from the specific to the more abstract, from commentary on lexicon and syntax through metrics and figurative language to a consideration of the poet's major themes: love,... -
Natural History of the West Indies by Sterling A. Stoudemire 9780807890325
RRP: $62.90$60.86Volume 32 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807890325Author Sterling A. StoudemireFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of... -
The Devil in the Details: Cuban Antislavery Narrative in the Postmodern Age by Claudette Williams 9789766402310
RRP: $56.60$48.93This is a book about breathing new life into texts from the past It demonstrates that meaning in the universe of art is not fixed but volatile contradictory unsettled and sometimes unsettling As an excellent example of a critical practice which is... -
Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography by Emily A. Maguire 9780813064802
$54.50In the wake of independence from Spain in 1898, Cuba's intellectual avant-garde struggled to cast their country as a modern nation. They grappled with the challenges presented by the postcolonial situation in general and with the location of blackness... -
Impossible Returns: Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora by Iraida H. Lopez 9780813064666
$54.50While the stories and resettlement patterns of Cubans who have left their home island have been widely documented, the subject of return in the Cuban diaspora remains understudied. In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida Lopez explores various narratives of... -
With Only Human Hopes: Reading Earl Lovelace by Xenobia Barrow-Delgado 9780995285002
RRP: $52.40$42.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995285002Author Xenobia Barrow-DelgadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Priory HousePublisher Priory HouseWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
New World Adams: Interviews with West Indian Writers Daryl Cumber Dance 9781900715041
RRP: $31.48$22.62In these interviews, held in the early 1980s, with twenty-two of the major writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, Daryl Dance brings together what is much more than just a valuable source book for readers of West Indian writing. The interviews are... -
New Ibis Readers Practice Book 1 by Noreen Majias-Bennett 9780582034587
$13.02Master the skills necessary for fluent and intelligent reading at Infant level, with systematic development of language, and contribute to the foundation of good spelling. - Interpret words more easily with helpful illustrations. - Practice skills... -
New Ibis Readers Book 2. by Estate Of Olly Nada 9780582034549
$24.34Master the skills necessary for fluent and intelligent reading at Infant level, with systematic development of language, and contribute to the foundation of good spelling. - Interpret words more easily with helpful illustrations. - Practice skills... -
New Ibis Readers Book 1 by Noreen Majias-Bennett 9780582034556
$24.34Master the skills necessary for fluent and intelligent reading at Infant level, with systematic development of language, and contribute to the foundation of good spelling. - Interpret words more easily with helpful illustrations. - Practice skills... -
Preserving our Heritage Level 3 Part 1 by MoE 9780435984809
$52.94Preserving Our Heritage is an exciting language arts textbook that uses the culture and heritage of The Bahamas to deliver key skills in language and literacy. Suitable for use throughout the Caribbean, Preserving Our Heritage: - covers the language arts... -
Perserving our Heritage Level 1 Part 1 by MoE 9780435984724
$52.94Preserving Our Heritage is an exciting language arts textbook that uses the culture and heritage of The Bahamas to deliver key skills in language and literacy. Suitable for use throughout the Caribbean, Preserving Our Heritage: - covers the language arts... -
Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature: Between Romanticism and Formalism by Joanna Page 9781552387320
$81.14With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary... -
Neruda's Sins by Hernan Loyola 9781469672007
RRP: $62.90$57.52The polemics Pablo Neruda was involved in from the 1930s on are legendary, but not even the ferocity of those attacks would lead one to believe that today, a half a century after his death, he would still be on trial. In this consistent and emphatic... -
Sunsong Book 3 by Frances Mordecai 9780582071261
$28.94The anthology Sunsong (Book 3) contains a mixture of poems from across the Caribbean and from other parts of the world. The selection is varied, challenging and enjoyable. It includes rhythmic poems for choral orchestration, story poems for humour and... -
New Ibis Readers Practice Introductory Book by Noreen Majias-Bennett 9780582034594
$13.02Master the skills necessary for fluent and intelligent reading at Infant level, with systematic development of language, and contribute to the foundation of good spelling. - Interpret words more easily with helpful illustrations. - Practice skills... -
The People Who Came Book 3 by Kamau Brathwaite 9780582766570
$41.52An established and popular three-book history course for lower forms in Caribbean schools. - Test knowledge and stimulate further enquiry and thought with a wide range of questions and activities.Book InformationISBN 9780582766570Author Kamau... -
Direcciones del vanguardismo hispanoamericano. Estudios sobre poesía de vanguardia en la década del veinte. Documentos by Gloria Videla de Rivero 9781837643790
RRP: $73.50$66.63Este conjunto de ensayos sobre la poesía de vanguardia hispanoamericana en la década del 20 es el resultado de muchos años de recopilación de materiales dispersos en varios países y de reflexiones y redacciones en diversas etapas de maduración del tema... -
Signs of Borges by Sylvia Molloy 9780822314202
RRP: $41.98$36.83Available for the first time in English, Signs of Borges is widely regarded as the best single book on the work of Jorge Luis Borges. With a critical sensibility informed by Barthes, Lacan, Foucault, Blanchot, and the entire body of Borges scholarship,... -
Preserving Our Heritage Level 3 Part 2 by MoE 9780435984816
$52.94Preserving Our Heritage is an exciting language arts textbook that uses the culture and heritage of The Bahamas to deliver key skills in language and literacy. Suitable for use throughout the Caribbean, Preserving Our Heritage: - covers the language arts...