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Until Judgement Comes by Opal Palmer Adisa
RRP: $15.42$10.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230425Author Opal Palmer AdisaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd -
This Train Is Not Bound for Glory: A Study on Literary Trainscapes by Paola Ravasio
$36.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608012169Author Paola RavasioFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)... -
The Epic Mirror - Poetry, Conflict Ethics and Political Community in Colonial Peru by Imogen Choi
RRP: $128.65$123.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855663473Author Imogen ChoiFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Tamesis BooksPublisher Tamesis BooksWeight(grams) 666g -
Coming of Age in the Afro-Latin American Novel: Blackness, Religion, Immigration by Professor Bonnie Bonnie Wasserman
RRP: $137.22$132.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648250286Author Professor Bonnie Bonnie WassermanFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Rochester PressPublisher Boydell & Brewer... -
Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture by Lloyd Davies
RRP: $77.19$63.04This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature. It considers various definitions of madness and explores the often contrasting responses, both positive (figural... -
Creolized Sexualities: Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean by Alison Donnell
RRP: $48.01$40.58Creolized Sexualities: Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean draws attention to a wide, and surprising, range of writings that craft inclusive and pluralizing representations of sexual possibilities within the... -
The Intellectual and Cultural Worlds of Ruben Dario by Kathleen T. O'Connor-Bater
RRP: $214.41$185.01Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario (1867-1916) has had a foundational influence on virtually all Spanish language writers and poets of the twentieth century and beyond. Yet, while he is a household name among Hispano-phone readers, the seminal modernista... -
Channeling Knowledges – Water and Afro–Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds by Rebeca L. Hey-Colón
RRP: $138.94$119.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477327241Author Rebeca L. Hey-ColónFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas PressWeight(grams) 666g -
Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film by Carmen A. Serrano
$138.03This work traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has... -
Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
RRP: $65.18$56.00The first book on pan-Caribbean life writing, Dreams of Archives Unfolded reveals the innovative formal practices used to write about historical absences within contemporary personal narratives. Although the premier genres of writing postcoloniality in... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel by Juan E. De Castro
RRP: $214.41$197.77The Latin American novel burst onto the international literary scene with the Boom era—led by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa—and has influenced writers throughout the world ever since. García Márquez and... -
Beyond Intimacy: Radical Proximity and Justice in Three Mexican Poets by Christina Karageorgou-Bastea
$175.77The ethos of poetry and its social efficacy cannot be underestimated in the quest for a fair society. The works of three contemporary Mexican poets - Abigael Bohorquez, Myriam Moscona, and Gloria Gervitz - offer models for examining important... -
The Scroll and the Cross: 1,000 Years of Jewish-Hispanic Literature by Ilan Stavans
RRP: $65.16$57.26Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This groundbreaking, eclectic book of readings, edited by Ilan Stavans, whom The Washington Post described as "one of our foremost cultural critics," offers a sideboard of... -
Five and One Theses on Modernity: Buenos Aires Across the Arts, 1921-1939 by Eleni Kefala
RRP: $71.18$65.23By 1920, Buenos Aires was the largest and most cosmopolitan city of Latin America due to mass immigration from Europe. Unbridled urban expansion had drastic effects on the social and cultural topography of the Argentine capital, raising ideological and... -
Phonographic Memories: Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel by Njelle W. Hamilton
RRP: $229.85$196.45Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide attention to the deep connections between music and memory in the... -
Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil by Nicola Gavioli
RRP: $68.59$60.14When Brazil was honored at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, the Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato opened the event with a provocative speech claiming that literature, through its pervasive depiction and discussion of ‘otherness,’ has the potential to provoke... -
Black Cookstove: Meditations on Literature, Culture, and Cuisine in Colombia by Germán Patiño Ossa
RRP: $42.80$37.72Winner of the 2006 Andrés Bello Award for Memory and Ibero-American ThoughtIn this evocatively written book, Germán Patiño Ossa presents the cultural universe and national identities of Colombia through the lens of traditional cuisine. Focusing on the... -
Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time by Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann
RRP: $229.85$196.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978822436Author Katerina Gonzalez SeligmannFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Desertmakers: Travel, War, and the State in Latin America by Javier Uriarte
RRP: $197.26$171.12This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces different conceptualizations of space and time in scenarios of war during the last decades of the 19th century, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. By examining accounts of war and travel... -
A History of Chilean Literature by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo
$154.19This book covers the full range and diversity of Chilean literature from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. By emphasizing transnational, hemispheric, and global approaches to Chilean literature, it reflects the relevance of themes such as... -
Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean: Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience by Elvira Pulitano
RRP: $68.59$60.14This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations. Focusing on the Caribbean... -
Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women by John T. Maddox IV
RRP: $111.49$83.43Since 2007, Afro-Puerto Rican women have been revising the foundational myths of the island and the diaspora to create a new vision of family as a national allegory that includes powerful Black protagonists. Novelists Mayra Santos-Febres and Dahlma... -
Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America by Claire Lindsay
RRP: $171.53$148.56This book considers how contemporary travelers from Latin America write their journeys at and about home. How do Latin American writers of the late twentieth-century negotiate the hybrid and volatile category of travel writing, which has been shaped in... -
Satire in Colonial Spanish America: Turning the New World Upside Down by Julie Greer Johnson
RRP: $37.72$32.92Satire, the use of criticism cloaked in wit, has been employed since classical times to challenge the established order of society. In colonial Spanish America during the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, many writers used satire to resist... -
Latin America's New Historical Novel by Seymour Menton
RRP: $37.72$32.92Beginning with the 1979 publication of Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra, the New Historical Novel has become the dominant genre within Latin American fiction. In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New... -
The Borges Enigma - Mirrors, Doubles, and Intimate Puzzles by Cynthia Lucy Stephens
RRP: $145.80$140.14Explores Borges's supreme literary craftsmanship and the intimate puzzles of his fictions. Borges once stated that he had never created a character: 'It's always me, subtly disguised'. This book focuses on the ways in which Borges uses events and... -
A Companion to Juan Rulfo by Steven Boldy
RRP: $128.65$124.07A comprehensive study of the Mexican writer considered one of the finest novelists and short-story writers in 20th-century Latin America. Juan Rulfo, 1917-1986, is one of the three greatest writers of twentieth-century Mexico together with Carlos... -
A Companion to Jorge Luis Borges by Steven Boldy
RRP: $34.29$29.11An introduction to one of Latin America's most important authors. Jorge Luis Borges is one of the key writers of the twentieth century in the context of both Hispanic and world literature. This Companion has been designed for keen readers of Borges... -
A Companion to Latin American Women Writers by Brigida M. Pastor
RRP: $128.65$124.07This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. This volume offers a critical... -
A Companion to Mexican Studies by Peter Standish
RRP: $34.29$29.11This Companion volume traces the evolution of the major creative aspects of Mexican culture from pre-Columbian times to the present. Dealing in turn with the cultures of Mesoamerica, the colonial period, the onset of independence and the modern era, the... -
Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces by Cecily Raynor
RRP: $58.32$51.27Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces analyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by Luiz Ruffato, Wilson Bueno, Roberto BolaNo, JoAo... -
The Limits of Identity: Politics and Poetics in Latin America by Charles Hatfield
RRP: $37.72$32.92The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American... -
Borges and the Literary Marketplace: How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading by Nora C. Benedict
RRP: $47.17$26.91A fascinating history of Jorge Luis Borges's efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) stands out as one of the most widely regarded and inventive authors in world literature. Yet the details of... -
Infrapolitics: A Handbook by Alberto Moreiras
RRP: $44.58$38.58.Book InformationISBN 9780823298365Author Alberto MoreirasFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba by Guillermina de Ferrari
RRP: $82.32$71.72Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intellectual engagement. However, no significant change took place at the political level. In... -
Sunsong Book 2 by Frances Mordecai
$21.77The anthology Sunsong (Book 2) 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... -
The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel by Raymond Leslie Williams
RRP: $41.15$35.75Winner, A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of... -
Homosexuality and Invisibility in Revolutionary - Reinaldo Arenas and Tomas Gutierrez Alea by Maria Encarnacion Lopez
RRP: $128.65$123.38This work offers an alternative insight into the longstanding and conflicting relationship between politics and the (gay) intelligentsia in Cuba by looking closely at political texts, film, documentaries and literature from prior to Fidel Castro's regime... -
The Representation of the Political in Selected Writings of Julio Cortazar by Carolina Orloff
RRP: $128.65$123.38The book analyses the evolution of the representation of distinct political elements throughout Cortazar's writings, mainly with reference to the novels and the so-called collage books, which have so far received only limited critical attention. The... -
White Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco by Ronald J. Friis
RRP: $58.32$50.31White 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...