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Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu by Edgar Garcia 9780226658971
RRP: £78.00£74.74Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia makes clear in Signs of the Americas. Rather than being... -
Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside by Joanna Johnson 9783030041335
RRP: £54.99£17.32How do Caribbean writers see the British countryside? Do they feel included, ignored, marginalised? In Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside, Joanna Johnson shows how writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys,... -
Dialogic Aspects in the Cuban Novel of the 1990s by Ngela Dorado-Otero 9781855662711
RRP: £95.00£91.08This book examines six Cuban novels published between 1991 and 1999, all part of the new "boom" of the Cuban novel in the 1990s. It analyses how in undermining monolithic representations of reality these texts employ discursive techniques that... -
Writing and the Revolution: Venezuelan Metafiction 2004-2012 by Katie Brown 9781786942197
RRP: £109.50£34.47In contrast to recent theories of the 'global' Latin American novel, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural... -
Borges, Desire, and Sex by Ariel de la Fuente 9781786941503
£48.83An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. The Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most sophisticated writers of the twentieth century, suffered from sexual impotence... -
The Fantasy of Globalism: The Latin American Neo-Baroque by John V. Waldron 9781498557252
RRP: £43.00£13.75For many, the advent of globalization brought with it an end to the way that the world had been viewed previous to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Among the many endings the one that most concerns my book is the perceived foreclosure of any alternatives to... -
Racial Immanence: Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation by Marissa K. Lopez 9781479807727
RRP: £74.00£64.45Explores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves, and digital and experimental installation art Racial Immanence attempts to unravel a Gordian knot at the center of the... -
The Senses of Democracy: Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America by Francine R. Masiello 9781477315040
RRP: £23.99£21.24In The Senses of Democracy, Francine R. Masiello traces a history of perceptions expressed in literature, the visual arts, politics, and history from the start of the nineteenth century to the present day. A wide transnational landscape frames the book... -
The Senses of Democracy: Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America by Francine R. Masiello 9781477315033
RRP: £74.00£64.85In The Senses of Democracy, Francine R. Masiello traces a history of perceptions expressed in literature, the visual arts, politics, and history from the start of the nineteenth century to the present day. A wide transnational landscape frames the book... -
Marvels of Medicine: Literature and Scientific Enquiry in Early Colonial Spanish America: 2020 Yari Perez Marin 9781837644216
RRP: £29.99£27.38Marvels of Medicine makes a compelling case for including sixteenth century medical and surgical writing in the critical frameworks we now use to think about a genealogy of cultural expression in Latin America. Focusing on a small group of practitioners... -
Caribe abierto ( ) Ensayos críticos by Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia 9781930744493
RRP: £35.00£31.73Esta colección de ensayos críticos, en palabras de su compilador, “estropea la nitidez disciplinaria o la corrección moral de tantos relatos bienpensantes y aguacatotes dedicados apenas al inventario de las particularidades identitarias de las islas.” No... -
Nictimene…sacrílega: Estudios coloniales en homenaje a Georgina Sabat-Rivers by Mabel Moraña 9789687631080
RRP: £35.00£31.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789687631080Author Mabel MorañaFormat PaperbackPage Count 355Imprint Instituto Internacional de Literatura IberoamericanaPublisher Instituto Internacional... -
Pasión y muerte del cura Deusto: Augusto d’Halmar by Daniel Balderston 9781930744905
RRP: £35.00£31.73En 1924 el novelista chileno Augusto D’Halmar publicó una audaz novela que cuenta el amor entre un cura vasco y un joven andaluz en Sevilla en la época anterior a la Primera Guerra Mundial. Un clásico de la literatura queer latinoamericana, esta edición... -
Medicine, Power, and the Authoritarian Regime in Hispanic Literature by Oscar A. Pérez 9781032197876
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book offers a substantial examination of how contemporary authors deal with the complex legacies of authoritarian regimes in various Spanish-speaking countries. It does so by focusing on works that explore an under-studied aspect: the reliance of... -
The Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature by Pablo Baisotti 9781032199757
RRP: £43.99£39.44This Handbook brings together essays from an impressive group of well-established and emerging scholars from all around the world, to show the many different types of violence that have plagued Latin America since the pre-Colombian era, and how each has... -
Theorizing a Colonial Caribbean-Atlantic Imaginary: Sugar and Obeah Keith Sandiford 9781138868861
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points marking respectively the origins and demise of slavocratic... -
Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America by Claire Lindsay 9781138817579
RRP: £31.99£28.33This 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... -
Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature: Remitting the Text by Kezia Page 9781138816190
RRP: £47.99£41.81Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural study responds to the general trend in migration... -
Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction by Philip Swanson 9781138804173
RRP: £94.99£82.35In the 1960s, there occurred amongst Latin American writers a sudden explosion of literary activity known as the 'Boom'. It marked an increase in the production and availability of innovative and experimental novels. But the 'Boom' of the 1960s should... -
Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature by Danny Mendez 9781138110892
RRP: £43.99£38.44Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Mendez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and... -
Postcards from Rio: Favelas and the Contested Geographies of Citizenship by Katia da Costa Bezerra 9780823276547
RRP: £81.00£70.41Through the analysis of a variety of favela-based visual cultural productions by young people and contemporary theorists, Postcards from Rio examines the complex relationship between citizenship and urban space in contemporary Rio de Janeiro. By... -
Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing by Catherine John 9780822332220
RRP: £20.99£18.37Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or "third sight," is rooted in both pre-... -
Onetti and Others: Comparative Essays on a Major Figure in Latin American Literature by Gustavo San Roman 9780791442364
RRP: £24.78£21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791442364Author Gustavo San RomanFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Darkening Nation: Race, Neoliberalism and Crisis in Argentina Ignacio Aguilo 9781786832214
RRP: £45.00£36.75At the turn of the twenty-first century, Argentina was in the midst of its worst economic crisis in decades, the result of years of drastic neoliberal reforms. This book looks at the way ideas about race and nationhood were conveyed during this period of... -
Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production: Embodied Enactments by Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo 9781032233734
RRP: £43.99£38.84This volume explores how Colombian novelists, artists, performers, activists, musicians, and others seek to enact—to perform, to stage, to represent—human rights situations that are otherwise enacted discursively, that is, made public or official, in... -
Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production by Ariana Huberman 9781618118349
RRP: £84.99£69.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618118349Author Ariana HubermanFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Academic Studies PressPublisher Academic Studies Press -
Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016) by Maria Montt Strabucchi 9781837644278
£31.11An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016) analyses contemporary... -
“Vanguardia” y “tradición” en la narrativa de César Aira by Nancy Fernández 9781930744738
RRP: £35.00£31.73Nancy Fernández se desempeña como investigadora independiente en CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) y como docente e investigadora en la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Es doctora en letras por la Universidad... -
The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America by Georg M. Gugelberger 9780822318446
RRP: £22.99£20.41Presented as the authentic testimony of the disenfranchised, the colonized, and the oppressed, testimonio has in the last two decades emerged as one of the most significant genres of Latin America's post-boom literature. In the political battles that... -
The Multimedia Works of Contemporary Latin American Women Writers and Artists by Dr Jane Elizabeth Lavery 9781855663947
RRP: £95.00£90.68In contemporary Latin America, an emerging crosscurrent of pioneering female writers and artists with an interest in transgressing traditional boundaries of genre, media, gender and nation are using their work to voice dissent against pressing social... -
Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities: Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition by Celucien L. Joseph 9780367764678
RRP: £39.99£35.06Joseph Anténor Firmin (1850–1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. He was the first “Black anthropologist” and “Black Egyptologist” to deconstruct the Western interpretation of global history... -
Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition by Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola 9781032080505
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book traverses the cultural landscape of Colombia through in-depth analyses of displacement, local and global cultures, human rights abuses, and literary and media production. Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the... -
Migrant and Tourist Encounters: The Ethics of Im/mobility in 21st Century Dominican and Cuban Cultures Andrea Easley Morris 9780367503819
RRP: £39.99£36.43Migrant and Tourist Encounters: The Ethics of Im/mobility in 21st Century Dominican and Cuban Cultures analyzes the effects of clashing flows of voluntary and involuntary travelers to and from these countries due to an increase in migration and tourism... -
Yale French Studies, Number 140: Maryse Conde, a Writer for Our Times by Madeleine Dobie 9780300259407
RRP: £55.00£54.74A diverse, interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring what makes Maryse Conde a writer for our times In 2018, the New Academy selected Guadeloupean writer, scholar, and teacher of literature Maryse Conde as the recipient of the 2018 Alternative... -
Sex, Sea, and Self: Nationalism and Sexuality in French Caribbean Discourse, 1924-1948 by Jacqueline Couti 9781800859944
£106.01Sex, Sea, and Self reassesses the place of the French Antilles and French Caribbean literature within current postcolonial thought and visions of the Black Atlantic. Using a feminist lens, this study examines neglected twentieth-century French texts by... -
Infrapolitics: A Handbook by Alberto Moreiras 9780823298358
RRP: £87.00£75.53.Book InformationISBN 9780823298358Author Alberto MoreirasFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Literary Black Power in the Caribbean: Fiction, Music and Film by Rita Keresztesi 9780367529376
RRP: £37.99£33.38Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in the anglophone Caribbean as represented and critically debated in literary texts, music and film. This volume is groundbreaking in its focus on the creative arts and artists... -
Subject to Change: The Lessons of Latin American Women's Testimonio for Truth, Fiction, and Theory by Joanna R. Bartow 9780807892848
RRP: £38.95£32.57By analyzing testimonial writing, works of fiction, and critical theory, Joanna R. Bartow examines the self-representation of testimonial subjects. She questions limits on reading testimonio that until recently have delegitimated the testimonial... -
Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015 by Frances R. Botkin 9780813587387
RRP: £31.00£27.36The fugitive slave known as "Three-Fingered Jack" terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans bound by treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels. A thief and a killer, Jack was also a... -
Questing Fictions: Latin America’s Family Romance by Djelal Kadir
RRP: £32.00£28.21Questing Fictions was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Questing Fictions...