Caribbean & Latin American

Preserving 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...

Preserving 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...

Preserving 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...

Provide an introduction to reading with exciting stories, poems and activities. - Develop visual and cognitive skills with stimulating activities in the Pre-Reader. - Provide suggestions for exercises, ranging from phonics and numbering, to comprehension...

Los cuadernos aquí recogidos manifiestan una toma activa de conciencia de la paulatina mejora de las luchas de las comunidades, las actitudes de los gobiernos locales y nacionales, lo cual no impide que, al menor descuido, estos gobiernos recaigan en las...

La estrategia critica del presente libro disena e introduce una compleja red de lecturas que lleva la ""absoluta modernidad"" del poeta chileno Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948) hasta el horizonte de su absoluta futuridad. Los escritos...

Paulette Ramsay's study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to undermine and overturn claims of mestizaje or Mexican homogeneity. The interdisciplinary research draws on...

The Terror and the Time contributes to the ongoing project of mapping the myriad ways in which contemporary individual and social scenarios and suffering are rooted in unresolved traumas bequeathed by the origins of the New World societies of the...

A Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetics in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction explores the impact of orature-performance on Caribbean prose fiction. Arguing that orature-performance is the structuring device for many contemporary novels and short...

Eric Walrond (1898-1966), author of Tropic Death (1926), remains a seminal but elusive figure in Harlem Renaissance and Caribbean diasporic literature. Although this collection remains his only major text, Walrond was in fact quite prolific, penning...

This is the first book to be devoted solely to David Dabydeen's academic works, bringing together the best of his output from the last twenty-five years with a series of interviews. Collectively, they provide the reader with a unique insight into the...

Literature has no geographical border and can so easily relocate and migrate into our literary imagination. The only real difficulty facing such crossings is the ever-present language barriers that have for too long limited the ways in which the...

The Pen and the Pan: Food, Fiction and Homegrown Caribbean Feminism(s) is a comparative study of food imagery in contemporary fiction by Guadeloupeans Maryse Condé and Gisèle Pineau, Haitian Edwidge Danticat, and Trinidadians Lakshmi Persaud and Shani...

The publication of Talking Words has been designed to coincide with that of Pak's Britannica: Articles by and Interviews with David Dabydeen, and provides the reader with a complementary set of essays that are focused exclusively on Dabydeen's fictional...

This interdisciplinary study focuses on recent migrant literature by five outstanding authors from the anglophone, francophone and hispanophone Caribbean: Maryse Conde, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz, Curdella Forbes and Caryl Phillips. Anthea Morrison...

This edited collection brings together the work of scholars in the field of Caribbean literary and linguistic study. Its genesis was the University of the West Indies 2011 commemorative conference in honour of recently retired professors Bridget...

When V.S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott published their first literary efforts there was no such thing as a Caribbean literary tradition. By the end of the twentieth century their work had begun to set the standard for literary production...

Este libro es el primero en rendirle un homenaje al gran critico chileno, Jaime Concha. Reune reflexiones personales de unos amigos academicos; ensayos sobre su docencia en Concepcion y su obra en general; estudios inspirados en los libros de Concha...

In Etnografia, politica y poder a finales del siglo XIX: Jose Marti y la cuestion indigena, Jorge Camacho traces the development of Jose Marti's ideas about progress, the market, and the educational reforms carried out by liberal governments in Central...

In 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...

The years 1930 to 1950 were a period of considerable activity in the Argentine novel, in great part as a reaction and response to the military coup of September 1930 that inaugurated what has come to be known as the Infamous Decade of Argentine social...

This is the first scholarly edition of Gil Vicente's last play Floresta de enganos(1536). The Spanish and Portuguese text, based on the fascimile reproduction (1928) of the Copilacom de todalas obras de Gil Vicente (1562), is accompanied by copious notes...

This biographical and critical study of Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (1809-1844), better known as Placido, investigates the mystery surrounding his life and execution, and reveals misattributions of his works in previous English translations.Book...

In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three important contemporary Cuban authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and...

Este volumen, compuesto por ocho ensayos y una suerte de epilogo dialogado con la escritora Maria Rosa Lojo, discute algunos de los ejes vertebradores de su obra: la conflictiva relacion con lo sagrado y su constante interpelacion, la memoria de la...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469609997Author Saulo GouveiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North Carolina Press

This book investigates three examples of the turn-of-the-century essay in Spain and Latin America: Angel Ganivet's Idearium espanol (1897), Jose Enrique Rodo's Ariel (1900), and Alcides Arguedas's Pueblo enfermo (1909). Michael Aronna traces the...

Read locates both the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Western ideas on language in their historical context. He reviews the theoretically diverse critical approaches to Borges's work, including both those that collude with the texts and others that are...

Volume 172 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891728Author Guillermo Lohmann-VillenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The...

Is a woman's writing different from a man's? Many scholars -- and readers -- think so, even thought here has been little examination of the way women's novels enact the theories that women theorists have posited. In Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women's...

In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and books, Collaborating with military movements known as filibusters, this generation of exiled writers...

Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her...

Crossing the Line examines a group of early nineteenth-century novels by white creoles, writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their experiences in Britain's Caribbean colonies. Colonial subjects residing in the West Indian colonies...

The first book-length study of the role of farce in Spanish American theatre explores the intersection of politics and drama. Spanish American playwrights have realized that farce's ""lack of power"" and marginality can become a...

This book undertakes the most comprehensive and theoretically rigorous examination to date of Luis Rafael Sanchez's work in the context of cultural politics in Puerto Rico, and of the international and regional dimensions of Sanchez's work in relation to...

Drawing upon contemporary theoretical debates surrounding performance, gender, and Latin American studies, The Leper in Blue examines representations of performance within dramatic texts. The book treats the work of playwrights such as Vincente Lenero,...

Following an introduction to the theory of autobiographical rhetoric, this study centers on the process of fictionalizing the self in Cabrera Infante's La Habana para un infant difunto and Vargas Llosa's La tia Julia y el escribidor. Rosemary Feal...

This study traces the development of Roa Bastos's concern with the reality of his people and their history and focuses on the mature techniques employed in the creation of a literary myth of a social reality.Book InformationISBN 9780807890806Author David...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813068794Author Benedicte BoisseronFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793606693Author Latoya Jefferson-JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books