Caribbean & Latin American

This 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...

This 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...

This 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...

This 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...

Taking 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...

In 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...

Establishing 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...

Through 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 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-...

Apologies 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...

At 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...

This 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...

Apologies 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

An 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...

Nancy 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...

Presented 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...

In 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...

Joseph 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...

This 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 analyzes the effects of clashing flows of voluntary and involuntary travelers to and from these countries due to an increase in migration and tourism...

A 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 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...

.Book InformationISBN 9780823298358Author Alberto MoreirasFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Literary 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...

By 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...

The 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 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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)...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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...

This 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 draws attention to a wide, and surprising, range of writings that craft inclusive and pluralizing representations of sexual possibilities within the...

Nicaraguan 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...

Apologies 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

This 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...

The 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 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...

Jews 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...

Phonographic 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...