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New Ibis Readers Introductory Book by Noreen Majias-Bennett 9780582034563
£11.59Master the skills necessary for fluent and intelligent reading at Infant level, with systematic development of language, and contribute to the foundation of good spelling. - Interpret words more easily with helpful illustrations. - Practice skills... -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Michael Wood 9780521316927
RRP: £25.99£21.89One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called 'Boom' in contemporary Latin American fiction. Published in 1967, the novel was an instant success, running to hundreds of editions, winning four international prizes,... -
A Refuge in Thunder: Candomble and Alternative Spaces of Blackness by Rachel Elizabeth Harding
RRP: £18.99£16.72"[An important] detailing of the development and evolution of a major institution of the African Diaspora [and] of Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian identity." -Sheila S. WalkerThe Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble has long been recognized as an extraordinary... -
Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires, and Virgins by Cristina Santos 9781498529655
RRP: £39.00£34.37Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires, and Virgins is a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary work that traces the construct of female monsters as an embodiment of socio-cultural fears of female sexuality and reproductive powers. This book... -
Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru by Rolena Adorno
RRP: £19.99£17.94In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva coronica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of... -
Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading by Erin Graff Zivin
RRP: £26.99£23.32How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical, and political possibilities remain for us today? Our... -
Chile in Transition: The Poetics and Politics of Memory by Michael J. Lazzara 9780813035680
RRP: £25.95£20.41Lazzara examines the political, ethical, and aesthetic implications of the diverse narrative forms Chilean artists have used to represent the memory of political violence under the Pinochet regime. By studying multiple "lenses of memory"... -
Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas by Ellen Jones
RRP: £30.00£27.39Literature is often assumed to be monolingual: publishing rights are sold on the basis of linguistic territories and translated books are assumed to move from one "original" language to another. Yet a wide range of contemporary literary works mix and... -
Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-Representation by Sandra Pouchet Paquet 9780299176945
RRP: £29.95£20.88Despite the range and abundance of autobiographical writing from the Anglophone Caribbean, this book is the first to explore this literature fully. It covers works from the colonial era up to present-day AIDS memoirs and assesses the links between more... -
Warrior Women and Trans Warriors: Performing Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature Carolina Castellanos Gonella 9781612499802
RRP: £86.00£73.10Latin American literature has depicted warrior woman and trans warrior characters in armed conflicts, but literary critics have not paid much attention to their empowerment. They also have critiqued these characters using traditional gender binary... -
Warrior Women and Trans Warriors: Performing Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature Carolina Castellanos Gonella 9781612499819
RRP: £38.95£33.11Latin American literature has depicted warrior woman and trans warrior characters in armed conflicts, but literary critics have not paid much attention to their empowerment. They also have critiqued these characters using traditional gender binary... -
Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas Stephanie M. Pridgeon 9781487527716
RRP: £49.00£41.65In Absorption Narratives, Stephanie M. Pridgeon explores cultural depictions of Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity within a comparative, inter-American framework. The dynamics of Jewishness interacting with other racial categories differ... -
Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style Joshua Javier Guzmán 9781479812820
RRP: £80.00£68.00How the queer Chicano punks of post-1960s Los Angeles developed a unique politics of style In this groundbreaking work, Joshua Javier Guzmán explores the queer punk and Chicano/Latino avant-garde art scenes in post-1968 Los Angeles from the rise of... -
Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas Vanessa K. Valdés 9781438498812
£72.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438498812Author Vanessa K. ValdésFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style Joshua Javier Guzmán 9781479812837
RRP: £25.99£22.09How the queer Chicano punks of post-1960s Los Angeles developed a unique politics of style In this groundbreaking work, Joshua Javier Guzmán explores the queer punk and Chicano/Latino avant-garde art scenes in post-1968 Los Angeles from the rise of... -
Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic Sophie Maríñez 9781512826401
RRP: £45.00£39.18An in-depth analysis of literary and cultural productions from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and their diasporas Spirals in the Caribbean responds to key questions elicited by the human rights crisis accelerated in 2013 by the Dominican Constitutional... -
On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction Ian Kinane 9781496855152
RRP: £29.95£25.46On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural author Michelle Cliff (1946–2016) to develop an entirely new approach to intersectional cultural, race, and gender/sexuality studies... -
Eduardo Halfon and the Itinerary of Memory Marilyn Grace Miller 9780826507051
RRP: £86.00£73.10Arguably, all of Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon’s fictional works deal with quandaries of translation, even in their original versions. The award-winning author of fourteen books claims to have lost his mother tongue when his family fled to the United...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £86.00£73.10Subtotal: -
Periodicals in Latin America: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Serialized Print Culture Maria Chiara D'Argenio 9781683404781
RRP: £90.00£76.50Exploring how Latin American print culture has informed global exchange The first volume in English to focus on Latin American serialized print culture, Periodicals in Latin America assembles research on a diverse range of publications, including... -
On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction Ian Kinane 9781496855145
RRP: £98.00£83.30On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural author Michelle Cliff (1946–2016) to develop an entirely new approach to intersectional cultural, race, and gender/sexuality studies...