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The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature Lesley Wylie 9780822967316
RRP: $36.12$30.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822967316Author Lesley WylieFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh PressWeight(grams) 454g -
McOndo Revisited: The Making of a Generation Defining Anthology in the Latin American Literature-World by Thomas Nulley-Valdés 9781666903041
RRP: $109.65$96.12The Pan-Hispanic short story anthology “McOndo” (Grijalbo Mondadori Barcelona, 1996), edited by the Chileans Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez, was envisaged as a forceful contestation of local and global horizons of expectation in Latin American... -
Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams by Rebecca E. Biron 9781611485882
RRP: $68.37$59.75Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams uses Elena Garro's eccentric life and work as a lens through which to examine mid-twentieth-century Mexican intellectuals' desire to reconcile mexicanidad with modernidad. The famously scandalous first wife of Nobel... -
Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martin Espada by Edward J. Carvalho 9781611479591
RRP: $59.34$52.05Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martin Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martin Espada. It is also, to date, the only published book-length, single-author study of Espada currently in... -
Rediscovering Rubén Darío through Translation by Dr. Carlos F. Grigsby 9798765119112
$96.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765119112Author Dr. Carlos F. GrigsbyFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Troubled Memories: Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of Representation by Oswaldo Estrada 9781438471907
$37.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438471907Author Oswaldo EstradaFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press -
The Sides of the Sea: Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora Johanna X. K. Garvey 9781496850706
RRP: $140.61$124.50In The Sides of the Sea: Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora, Johanna X. K. Garvey examines the works of contemporary writers from eight Caribbean countries, including Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic. Authors from Anglophone,... -
Black in Print: Plotting the Coordinates of Blackness in Central America by Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar 9781438492827
$33.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438492827Author Jennifer Carolina Gómez MenjívarFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New... -
The Sides of the Sea: Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora Johanna X. K. Garvey 9781496850713
RRP: $38.64$35.35In The Sides of the Sea: Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora, Johanna X. K. Garvey examines the works of contemporary writers from eight Caribbean countries, including Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic. Authors from Anglophone,... -
The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle: Theoretical Perspectives on the Liminal Genre by Ignacio Corona 9780791453544
RRP: $32.91$28.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791453544Author Ignacio CoronaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels by Earl E. Fitz 9781611486247
RRP: $55.47$48.74This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that Machado had a particular interest in female characterization and that his fictional women became increasingly... -
Gregory Rabassa's Latin American Literature: A Translator's Visible Legacy by Maria Constanza Guzman 9781611485103
RRP: $54.18$47.64This book is a critical study of the work of Gregory Rabassa, translator of such canonical novels as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cien anos de soledad, Jose Lezama Lima's Paradiso, and Julio Cortazar's Rayuela. During the past five decades, Rabassa has... -
Las Raras: Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and Women Writers during Spanish-American Modernismo by Sarah Moody 9780826506894
RRP: $110.94$110.89Las Raras: Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and Women Writers during Spanish-American Modernismo proposes that the Modernistas’ advocacy for a writing style they considered feminine helps us to understand why so few (and perhaps no) women were... -
Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature by Ashley Hope Pérez 9780814259061
$46.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814259061Author Ashley Hope PérezFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
Espectros: Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives by Alberto Ribas Casasayas 9781611487381
RRP: $59.34$52.05Espectros is a compilation of original scholarly studies that presents the first volume-length exploration of the spectral in literature, film, and photography of Latin America, Spain, and the Latino diaspora. In recent decades, scholarship in... -
Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance by Belinda Edmondson 9780198914648
RRP: $32.24$29.05Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. By emphasizing multiracial origins, transnational influences, and musical... -
Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature by Thomas Ward 9781498535182
RRP: $127.71$111.66While there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations... -
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature by Scott M. DeVries 9781611485158
RRP: $131.58$115.51A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region's literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth century to the most recent fiction. The book begins with... -
Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism by Valerie Kaussen 9780739116371
RRP: $58.05$50.94Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism interprets Haitian literature in a transnational context of anti-colonial_and anti-globalization_politics. Positing a materialist and historicized account of Haitian literary... -
V.S. Naipaul by Suman Gupta 9780746308974
$42.94In this comprehensive study Suman Gupta provides a critical evaluation of the work of V.S. Naipaul up to the present, analysing his ideological and artistic development over five decades within the numerous cultural contexts he has addressed. Features...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$42.94Subtotal: -
Amefrica in Letters: Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone by Jennifer Carolina Gomez Menjivar 9780826505132
$39.24The present historical moment is allowing Black peoples and scholars of Afrodescendance to produce timely discussions of narratives about Blackness, language, and ideas across the western hemisphere. Despite research interventions in the disciplines of... -
Signs of Borges by Sylvia Molloy 9780822314066
$102.85Available for the first time in English, Signs of Borges is widely regarded as the best single book on the work of Jorge Luis Borges. With a critical sensibility informed by Barthes, Lacan, Foucault, Blanchot, and the entire body of Borges scholarship,... -
Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change by Carolyn Fornoff 9780826506184
RRP: $110.94$110.89Subjunctive Aesthetics argues for the importance of ecocritical approaches within the field of Mexican Studies. While environmental historians of Mexico have been leading the charge in terms of foregrounding the nonhuman as a legitimate object of... -
Amefrica in Letters: Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone by Jennifer Carolina Gomez Menjivar 9780826505149
RRP: $110.94$110.89The present historical moment is allowing Black peoples and scholars of Afrodescendance to produce timely discussions of narratives about Blackness, language, and ideas across the western hemisphere. Despite research interventions in the disciplines of... -
Borges and Kafka, Bolno and Bloom: Spanish American Authors and the Western Canon by Juan E. De Castro 9780826502483
$39.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826502483Author Juan E. De CastroFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo 9780826504944
RRP: $110.94$110.89The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance considers the influence of a Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the writing of several twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican authors, directors, and artists. In spite... -
The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo 9780826504937
$44.65The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance considers the influence of a Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the writing of several twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican authors, directors, and artists. In spite... -
Borges and Kafka, Bolno and Bloom: Spanish American Authors and the Western Canon by Juan E. De Castro 9780826502490
RRP: $110.94$110.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826502490Author Juan E. De CastroFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
The Cyborg Caribbean: Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction by Samuel Ginsburg 9781978836259
RRP: $33.53$30.47The Cyborg Caribbean examines a wide range of twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction texts, arguing that authors from Pedro Cabiya, Alexandra Pagan-Velez, and Vagabond Beaumont to Yasmin Silvia Portales, Erick Mota, and... -
Latin American Detectives against Power: Individualism, the State, and Failure in Crime Fiction by Fabricio Tocco 9781793651662
RRP: $38.70$36.15This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constitute a far more radical critique than the one developed... -
A Literary Friendship: Selected Notes on the Kamau Brathwaite, Gordon Rohlehr Correspondence by Gordon Rohlehr 9781845235840
RRP: $25.79$18.11For fifty years, Gordon Rohlehr was the regular correspondent, sometimes confidant and always the critic who best understood the nature of Kamau Brathwaite’s vision and what his poetry achieved. In revisiting the trajectory of their mutually enriching... -
Backdam People Rooplall Motilal Monar 9780948833007
RRP: $9.02$6.50The stories in this collection give an unrivalled picture of the lives of the Indo-Guyanese workers on the sugar estates in the period between the 1930s and the early 1950s when the estate communities broke up. They explore with great insight the... -
Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature by Brian T. Chandler 9781684485192
RRP: $56.76$49.46Science Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporary works of fiction, poetry, and theater from Mexico. In this deft new study, Brian Chandler examines how a range of contemporary... -
Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature by LaToya Jefferson-James 9781793606679
RRP: $114.81$100.56Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature is both pedagogical and critical. The text begins by re-evaluating the poetry of Wheatley for its political commentary, demonstrates how Hurston bridges several literary genres and geographies,... -
A Stubborn Ghost: Essays in Honor of Henry W. Sullivan by A. Robert Lauer 9781636670409
RRP: $95.46$83.90A tribute to Henry W. Sullivan in celebration of his 80th birthday, this volume encompasses a wide spectrum of Hispanic literary scholarship to honor a prolific scholar whose contributions have been extensive, not only as a Golden Age Hispanist but also... -
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature by Scott M. DeVries 9781611486902
RRP: $61.92$54.24A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region's literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth century to the most recent fiction. The book begins with... -
Writing through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean by Oussiena Alidou 9781498501637
RRP: $153.51$134.39Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean interrogates conventional notions of writing. The contributors-whose disciplines include anthropology, art history, education,... -
The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America by Georg M. Gugelberger 9780822318514
RRP: $114.81$100.13Presented 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 Ends of Literature: The Latin American "Boom" in the Neoliberal Marketplace by Brett Levinson 9780804743457
$137.97The 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... -
Antonio Candido: On Literature and Society by Antonio Candido 9780691635903
$115.44Here Howard Becker makes available for an English-speaking audience a collection of the provocative work of Antonio Candido, one of the leading men of letters in Brazil. Trained as a sociologist, Candido conceives of literature as a social project and is...