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Sexual Textualities: Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing by David William Foster
RRP: £15.99£14.24Since the 1991 publication of his groundbreaking book Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing, David William Foster has proposed a series of theoretical and critical principles for the analysis of Latin American culture from the perspectives of... -
Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris by Gianluca Delfino
RRP: £29.90£24.10Gianluca Delfino's study is based on the assumption that Wilson Harris's works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author's complex imagination. As a valuable contribution to Caribbean Literature and Philosophy, Harris's... -
Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory: Language, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels by Earl E. Fitz
RRP: £27.99£24.14This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature's greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of Western literature and an imaginative reader of French... -
Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America by Jeronimo Arellano
RRP: £88.00£77.09Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America rethinks the rise and fall of magical realism in Latin America in the light of the cultural history of the emotions, and in conversation with contemporary theories of the affects. It... -
The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning by Idelber Avelar
RRP: £22.99£20.01The Untimely Present examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the recent Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Idelber Avelar argues that through their legacy of social trauma and obliteration of... -
The Ends of Literature: The Latin American "Boom" in the Neoliberal Marketplace by Brett Levinson
RRP: £23.99£20.84The Ends of Literature analyzes the part played by literature within contemporary Latin American thought and politics, above all the politics of neoliberalism. The "why?" of contemporary Latin American literature is the book's overarching concern. Its... -
The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa Efrain Kristal (University of California, Los Angeles) 9780521864244
RRP: £42.00£37.96One of the major novelists in world literature over the last five decades, Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936) is also one of Latin America's most engaging public intellectuals, a critic of art and culture, and a playwright of distinction. This Companion's... -
A Companion to Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Raymond Leslie Williams
RRP: £19.99£19.39This book offers discussion and analysis of the subtle writing of Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez - a traditionalist who draws from classic Western texts, a Modernist committed to modernizing the conservative literary tradition in Colombia and... -
A Companion to Spanish American Modernismo by Anibal Gonzalez
RRP: £19.99£17.61Modernismo, a literary movement of fundamental importance to Spanish America and Spain, occurred at the turn of the nineteenth century, roughly from the 1880s to the 1920s. It is widely regarded as the first Spanish-language literary movement that... -
Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction by Philip Swanson
RRP: £31.99£28.33In 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... -
In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women's Writing by Isabel Hoving
RRP: £27.99£24.14Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an accessible and concrete appraisal of current developments in postcolonial criticism. Detailed readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts from the late... -
Re-reading Jose Marti (1853-1895): One Hundred Years Later Julio Rodriguez-Luis 9780791442401
RRP: £24.78£21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791442401Author Julio Rodriguez-LuisFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Wellsprings by Mario Vargas Llosa
RRP: £14.95£12.34When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Mario Vargas Llosa-Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual-answers this most personal question with elegant concision... -
Women Writers of Latin America: Intimate Histories by Magdalena Garcia Pinto
RRP: £19.99£17.54What does it take for a woman to succeed as a writer? In these revealing interviews, first published in 1988 as Historias intimas, ten of Latin America's most important women writers explore this question with scholar Magdalena Garcia Pinto, discussing... -
The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture by Stephanie Merrim
RRP: £27.99£24.14Winner, Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Modern Language Association, 2010 The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture tracks the three spectacular forces of New World literary culture-cities, festivals, and wonder-from the... -
Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel by Paul R. McAleer
RRP: £65.00£61.81An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the utopian impulse. This book analyses these functions of... -
Painting, Literature and Film in Colombian Femin - Of Border Guards, Nomads and Women by Deborah Martin
RRP: £60.00£57.55Women artists, writers and filmmakers in Colombia have consistently foregrounded the relationship between gender and the often violent processes which have marked the country's history over the past century. This book explores crucial moments in the... -
The Fiction of Juan Rulfo - Irony, Revolution and Postcolonialism by Amit Thakkar
RRP: £80.00£77.01This is the first extended, English-language study to focus exclusively on the fiction of Juan Rulfo in over twenty years. It contains innovative analyses of a selection of short stories from Rulfo's collection, El llano en llamas (1953). It also... -
Mayaya Rising: Black Female Icons in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Culture by Dawn Duke
RRP: £34.00£29.89Who are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the... -
Writing the Land, Writing Humanity: The Maya Literary Renaissance by Charles M. Pigott
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Maya Literary Renaissance is a growing yet little-known literary phenomenon that can redefine our understanding of "literature" universally. By analyzing eight representative texts of this new and vibrant literary movement, the book argues that the... -
Contradictory Indianness: Indenture, Creolization, and Literary Imaginary by Atreyee Phukan
RRP: £29.99£26.50As 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... -
Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature: Moving through the Margins Janelle Rodriques (University of Bremen, Germany) 9780367786595
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores representations of Obeah - a name used in the English/Creole-speaking Caribbean to describe various African-derived, syncretic Caribbean religious practices - across a range of prose fictions published in the twentieth century by West... -
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction by Naomi Lindstrom
RRP: £19.99£17.54Spanish American fiction became a world phenomenon in the twentieth century through multilanguage translations of such novels as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman, Octavio Paz's Labyrinth of... -
A Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa by Sabine Kollmann
RRP: £95.00£91.08This companion to the work of Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa traces his fictional and non-fictional writing throughout the different phases of a career spanning more than fifty years. His lifelong dedication to literature goes hand in hand... -
Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954 by Chelsea Stieber
RRP: £24.99£21.672021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti's... -
A History of Colombian Literature by Raymond Leslie Williams
£30.73In recent decades, the international recognition of Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez has placed Colombian writing on the global literary map. A History of Colombian Literature explores the genealogy of Colombian poetry and prose from the colonial... -
Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative by Belinda Edmondson
RRP: £20.99£18.37Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly... -
Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America's Export Age by Ericka Beckman
RRP: £21.99£19.19Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. During this Export Age, entire regions were given over to the... -
Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View by Robert Brody
RRP: £19.99£17.54Carlos Fuentes is a master of modern world literature. With the translation of his major works into English and other languages, his reputation has surpassed the boundaries of his native Mexico and of Hispanic literature and has become international. Now... -
Latina Performance: Traversing the Stage by Alicia Arrizon
RRP: £16.99£15.07"Latina Performance is a densely theorized treatment of rich materials." -MultiCultural Review "Arrizon's important book revolves around the complex issues of identity formation and power relations for US women performers of Latin... -
Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Ar - The Performances of Blood by Cecilia Sosa
RRP: £80.00£76.61Shows how the experience of violence in Argentina shed light on a new sense of "being together" that goes beyond bloodline ties. Co-winner of the 2013 inaugural Publication Prize awarded by the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland ... -
Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature by Joy Mahabir
RRP: £45.99£40.13This book is the first collection on Indo-Caribbean women's writing and the first work to offer a sustained analysis of the literature from a range of theoretical and critical perspectives, such as ecocriticism, feminist, queer, post-colonial and... -
New Readings of Silvina Ocampo - Beyond Fantasy by Patricia Nisbet Klingenberg
RRP: £80.00£77.01The critical essays in this volume are dedicated to the works of Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) and introduce readers more fully to a figure who has long been a kind of insider's secret among intellectuals of her country. As the title... -
All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison by Natalie Melas
RRP: £23.99£20.84This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist comparative method, it inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. Comparison... -
Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions by John Beverley
RRP: £19.99£17.54"This book began in what seemed like a counterfactual intuition . . . that what had been happening in Nicaraguan poetry was essential to the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution," write John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman. "In our own... -
The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico by Jorge Tellez
RRP: £50.00£43.41This book studies picaresque narratives from 1690 to 2013, examining how this literary form serves as a reflection on the material conditions necessary for writing literature in Mexico. In The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico, Jorge Tellez... -
The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora: Seven Centuries of Literature and the Arts by Darlene J. Sadlier
RRP: £23.99£21.24Long before the concept of "globalization," the Portuguese constructed a vast empire that extended into Africa, India, Brazil, and mid-Atlantic territories, as well as parts of China, Southeast Asia, and Japan. Using this empire as its starting point and... -
The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era by Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano
RRP: £23.99£20.84In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism have been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art-expecially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the... -
Infrapolitical Passages: Global Turmoil, Narco-Accumulation, and the Post-Sovereign State by Gareth Williams
RRP: £27.99£24.14This book makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility in the face of a tumultuous world of war and of technological value extraction on a planetary scale. Infrapolitical Passages proposes to clear a way through some of... -
Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction by Regine Michelle Jean-Charles 9780813948454
£46.06What would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics, engagement, disaster, or catastrophe? Looking for Other Worlds engages with this question from a distinct feminist perspective and, in the...