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Jorge Luis Borges and His Predecessors: Notes Towards a Materialist History of Linguistic Idealism by Malcolm K. Read 9780807892466
RRP: €35.64€33.34Read 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... -
Un triptico del Peru virreinal: El virrey Amat, el marques de Soto Florido y La Perricholi by Guillermo Lohmann-Villena 9780807891728
RRP: €41.59€39.17Volume 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... -
Jean Rhys and the Novel As Women's Text by Nancy R. Harrison 9780807856420
RRP: €59.44€54.62Is 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... -
Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States by Rodrigo Lazo 9780807855942
RRP: €51.11€46.33In 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 and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity by Edna M. Rodriguez-Mangual 9780807855546
RRP: €55.87€50.84Lydia 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: Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation by Candace Ward 9780813940007
€77.10Crossing 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 Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theatre by Priscilla Melendez 9780807892862
RRP: €35.64€33.97The 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... -
Puerto Rican Cultural Identity and the Work of Luis Rafael Sanchez by John Dimitri Perivolaris 9780807892725
RRP: €35.64€33.40This 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... -
The Leper in Blue: Coercive Performance and the Contemporary Latin American Theater by Amalia Gladhart 9780807892701
RRP: €35.64€33.92Drawing 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,... -
Novel Lives: The Fictional Autobiographies of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Mario Vargos Llosa by Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal 9780807892305
RRP: €39.21€33.45Following 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... -
The Myth of Paraguay in the Fiction of Augusto Roa Bastos by David William Foster 9780807890806
RRP: €35.64€32.13This 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... -
Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora by Benedicte Boisseron 9780813068794
RRP: €32.07€21.02Apologies 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)... -
Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature by Latoya Jefferson-James 9781793606693
RRP: €35.70€33.34Apologies 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 -
In Search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse by Daryl Cumber Dance 9780813938462
€34.14There is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer's canon as Jamaica Kincaid's mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its... -
The Narrow Pass of Our Nerves: Writing, Coloniality and Postcolonial Theory by Sara Castro-Klaren 9788484895916
RRP: €41.64€34.65The book analyzes, from the perspective of the coloniality of power, the cultural and political work of colonial subjects such el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Guaman Poma de Ayala or Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.Book InformationISBN 9788484895916Author Sara... -
Crossroads of Colonial Cultures: Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution by Gesine Muller 9783110495003
RRP: €55.34€42.66The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789-1886). The... -
Contradictory Indianness: Indenture, Creolization, and Literary Imaginary by Atreyee Phukan 9781978829114
RRP: €147.56€127.38As Contradictory Indianness shows, a postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics that has from its inception privileged inclusivity, interraciality, and resistance against Old World colonial orders requires taking into account Indo-Caribbean writers and their... -
Creolized Sexualities: Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean by Alison Donnell 9781978818125
RRP: €147.56€127.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978818125Author Alison DonnellFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction by Karl Erik Schollhammer 9781839985409
RRP: €29.75€28.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839985409Author Karl Erik SchollhammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g -
Universality and Utopia: The 20th Century Indigenista Peruvian Tradition by Daniel Sacilotto 9781839986871
RRP: €95.20€91.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839986871Author Daniel SacilottoFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g -
Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature by Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez 9781785278310
RRP: €95.20€91.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785278310Author Gabriel Eljaiek-RodriguezFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g -
Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction by Karl Erik Schollhammer 9781785275562
RRP: €95.20€91.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785275562Author Karl Erik SchollhammerFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
New World Literacy: Writing and Culture Across the Atlantic, 1500-1700 by Carlos Alberto Gonzalez Sanchez 9781611480269
€134.14This book on the role of written and iconographic communication in the Atlantic World combines a broad outlook, geographically and chronologically, with the precise treatment of specific evidence extracted from the sources. The author argues that... -
St Omer Casebook by Antonia MacDonald 9781845233570
RRP: €20.22€14.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845233570Author Antonia MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd -
Who's Your Daddy?: and Other Stories by Geoffrey Philp 9781845230777
RRP: €10.70€7.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230777Author Geoffrey PhilpFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd -
The River's Song by Jacqueline Bishop 9781845230388
RRP: €10.70€7.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230388Author Jacqueline BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 183Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd -
Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts by Emily O'Dell 9781793607157
RRP: €85.68€75.34Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts explores alternative approaches to Caribbean texts from transnational and multilingual perspectives. The authors query what new systems and criteria can be implemented to rethink and remodel our... -
White Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco by Ronald J. Friis 9781684483464
RRP: €147.56€127.38White Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco examines the interplay of complementary images and concepts in the award-winning Mexican writer's cycle of poems from 1979 to 2018. Blanco’s poetic trilogy A la luz de siempre is characterized by its broad range... -
Pariah in the Desert: The Heroic and the Monstrous in Horacio Quiroga by Todd S. Garth 9781611487671
RRP: €94.01€82.51This is the first book in English on Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay 1878-Argentina 1937), a canonical author whose works are read by all advanced students of Spanish in the US and many other countries. The study examines Quiroga's work through the theoretical... -
Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation: Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture, and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicolas Guillen by Miguel Arnedo-Gomez 9781611487589
RRP: €113.05€98.91The Cuban writer Nicolas Guillen has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity. Yet, many... -
Macho Ethics: Masculinity and Self-Representation in Latino-Caribbean Narrative by Jason Cortes 9781611486377
RRP: €104.72€91.74Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous one-a fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances. Because of its opacity and instability, masculinity, like more recognizable systems of oppression, resists... -
Gregory Rabassa's Latin American Literature: A Translator's Visible Legacy by María Constanza Guzmán 9781611480085
€110.23This book is a critical study of the work of Gregory Rabassa, translator of such canonical novels as Gabriel Garcìa Márquez's Cien años de soledad, José Lezama Lima's Paradiso, and Julio Cortàzar's Rayuela. During the past five decades, Rabassa has... -
Ambivalent Desires: Representations of Modernity and Private Life in Colombia (1890s-1950s) by Maria Mercedes Andrade 9781611480009
RRP: €97.58€79.59Ambivalent Desires: Representations of Modernity and Private Life in Colombia (1890s-1950s) is a literary and cultural study of the reception of modernity in Colombia. Unlike previous studies of Latin American modernization, which have usually focused on... -
Catastrophic Historicism: Reading Julia de Burgos Dangerously by Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús 9781531505646
RRP: €29.74€25.79Catastrophic Historicism unsettles the historicist constitution of Julia de Burgos (1914–53), Puerto Rico’s most iconic writer—a critical task that necessitates redefining the concept of historicism. Through readings of Aristotle, Walter Benjamin,... -
Catastrophic Historicism: Reading Julia de Burgos Dangerously by Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús 9781531505639
RRP: €108.29€94.39Catastrophic Historicism unsettles the historicist constitution of Julia de Burgos (1914–53), Puerto Rico’s most iconic writer—a critical task that necessitates redefining the concept of historicism. Through readings of Aristotle, Walter Benjamin,... -
Portuguese Literature and the Environment by Ines Amorim 9781498595377
RRP: €107.10€98.32Portuguese Literature and the Environment explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from Medieval times to the present. From the centrality of nature in Medieval poetry, through the bucolic verse of the Renaissance, all... -
Global South Modernities: Modernist Literature and the Avant-Garde in Latin America by Gorica Majstorovic 9781498576178
RRP: €101.15€88.67Global South Modernities: Modernist Literature and the Avant-Garde in Latin America examines the seminal influence that Latin American writers had on the style, subject matter, and ideology of literature in the Global South from 1900 to the late 1930s... -
Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature by Thomas Ward 9781498535205
RRP: €46.41€40.90While there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations... -
The Kaleidoscopic Vision of Malcolm Lowry: Souls and Shamans by Nigel H. Foxcroft 9781498516570
RRP: €107.10€94.26The Kaleidoscopic Vision of Malcolm Lowry: Souls and Shamans is an interdisciplinary investigation of the kaleidoscopic vision of international modernist writer Malcolm Lowry through an analysis of his selected literary works and correspondence. Nigel... -
Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat by Maia L. Butler 9781496839879
RRP: €122.57€114.86Contributions by Cecile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner, Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel Caldeira, Nadege T. Clitandre, Thadious Davis, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Laura Dawkins, Megan Feifer, Delphine Gras, Akia Jackson, Tammie Jenkins,...