Caribbean & Latin American

Los estudios literarios/culturales latinoamericanistas en los programas de espanol y portugues en Estados Unidos los realizan profesores de diferentes generaciones, origenes nacionales y momento de ingreso al sistema universitario. Proceden de multiples...

Pablo Adalberto Ortiz Quinones (1914-2002) was one of the most gifted writers in Ecuador and all of Latin America. Yet outside of Ecuador and amongst Afro-Hispanic literature scholars in the United States, little critical attention has been given to this...

The Latin American Urban Cronica explores the fluid relationship between high and low culture in Latin America. Paying attention to the peculiar development of the cultural fields in Latin America and to the consequences of present processes of...

En un golpe de tos sintio volar la vida is an in-depth discussion of Panamanian poet Gaspar Octavio Hernandez. From early in his career, Hernandez received accolades for his poetry and subsequently gained nationwide recognition. The author places...

How do diasporic writers negotiate their identities through and with food? What tensions emerge between the local and the global, between the foodways of the past and of the present? How are concepts of culinary 'tradition' and 'authenticity' articulated...

Elena 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...

Post-Conflict Central American Literature: Searching for Home and Longing to Belong studies often-overlooked contemporary poetry. Through the exploration of poetry and a select number of short stories, this book contemplates the meanings of home,...

This innovative college-level textbook for third-year college Spanish courses introduces the student to Latin American literature using a unique bilingual approach in which an English translation parallels the Spanish original. As such it is appropriate...

Esta coleccion de ensayos participa en el trabajo de revsion de los imaginarios de las Americas que se lleva a cabo desde hace unas decadas. Asistimos a una despolarizacion de la historia economica, politica y cultural, manifiesta en una marcada...

Elena 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 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...

Apologies 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

Deconstructing Paradise investigates Christian symbols that appear in Latin American Literature in an inverted way. The texts under investigation invert the Christian center to generate a social, political, cultural, or even artistic commentary. In doing...

Acknowledged 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...

Del manuscrito al libro revela, tomado como punto de partida el manuscrito original de cuatro novelas, el importante sustrato de materiales textuales que esconden los libros. El estudio cuestiona que el formato de libro tradicional -el codice- sea el...

This volume brings together scholars working in different languages-Creole, French, English, Spanish-and modes of cultural production-literature, art, film, music-to suggest how best to model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent aspects...

From the cabinets of wonder of the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and...

Among Hispanic literatures, Cuban-American fiction is unique because of the Cuban-American disposition to regard themselves as exiles rather than immigrants. Many Cuban-Americans have never been to Cuba and therefore must rely on the memories of those...

Hoy en dia los textos de Piglia integran programas academicos y figuran en las listas de best-sellers. Los articulos que componen esta obra, coinciden en la coherencia y fidelidad del proyecto literario de Piglia a la vez que rechaza imposiciones...

Hay un riesgo en la relacion entre critica y produccion textual ya que puede ser inevitablemente metaforica. Esta relacion esta cargada de peligros tanto politicos como teoricos. Este volumen asume ese riesgo sabiendo del caracter ineludible de la...

El presente libro se propone explorar los vinculos entre la ironia -y sus formas contiguas como el cinismo, el absurdo, la parodia o el humor negro- y la violencia en la literatura latinoamericana contemporanea. El objetivo consiste en crear un...

La obra de Horacio Castellanos Moya es un referente crucial no solo para imaginar el pasado y el presente centroamericano, sino para examinar las implicaciones politicas que derivan de la escritura literaria en espanol en la era neoliberal. El presente...

"En Full Teleon. Sierpes de Leon de Greiff, el fantasma mismo del "ensayo como forma" nos hace senas desde el resplandor. Bruno Mazzoldi replica al don imposible de Leon de Greiff con otro don imposible, convirtiendo el intercambio literario en un...

La obra de Sor Juana muestra un interes muy marcado por el saber y por la descripcion de los procesos de adquisicion de conocimiento y el desarrollo de la capacidad intelectual humana en un contexto muy particular; una sociedad colonial que intenta...

Toda afirmacion de un canon pone en evidencia ciertos regimenes de visibilidad mediante los que se autorizan las producciones artisticas. Sin embargo algunas escrituras cuestionan las disposiciones esteticas organizadas bajo esta norma y se proponen como...

The Latin American Urban Cronica explores the fluid relationship between high and low culture in Latin America. Paying attention to the peculiar development of the cultural fields in Latin America and to the consequences of present processes of...

Colaboran: Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey | Moacyr Scliar | Nadia Batella Gotlib | Lucia Helena | Nelson Vieira | Renata R. Mautner Wasserman | Debra A. Castillo | Maria Aparecida Ribeiro | Claire Williams | Regina Zilberman | Maria Jose Somerlate...

Gabriel Alberto Ferrer Ruiz nacio en Maonteria, Colombia. Es profesor titular de la Universidad del Atlantico en Barranquilla, Colombia y fundador del Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Literarias del Caribe y de la revista Cuadernos de Literatura del...

'Los Sandinistas notablemente hicieron de la literatura un significante central de su proyecto politico. Tiene sentido, entonces, que la cuestion de la literatura y su relacion con el poder... esten en el centro de este libro. El punto de partida de...

In 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,...

Arguably, 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826507044Author Marilyn Grace MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University Press

Exploring 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 ...

In 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,...

Colaboran: Riccardo Badini, Helena Usandizaga, Marco Thomas Bosshard, Elizabeth Monasterios, Mauro Mamani Macedo, Meritxell Hernando Marsal, Paola Mancosu, Jose Luis Ayala, Ladislao Landa Vasquez, Aldo Medinaceli, Romulo Monte Alto, Arturo Vilchis...

"Aqui en el Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, nos es motivo de gran honor, a traves de nuestra Serie Malunga, poder aprovechar la oportunidad para rendir homenaje al gran poeta Jesus Cos Causse (1945- 2007), con una primera edicion...

El libro que presentamos son las actas del Sexto Congreso internacional de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos, auspiciado por el Departamento de Lenguas y Literaturas Hispanicas de la Universidad de Pittsburgh. Este recoge versiones revisadas en casi...

La autora de este libro formula una invitacion a problematizar la historiografia literaria ecuatoriana y, de forma implicita, cualquier corpus literario construido a partir de un proyecto nacional. Para ello, se vale de imagenes corporales problematicas...

"A escolha de Silviano Santiago como integrante da serie Criticas deve-se ao fato de ser ele um escritor versatil e um dos poucos intelectuais e criticos contemporaneos que buscam aproximar o Brasil dos demais paises latino-americanos. Como se podera...

Luis Maldonado hizo estudios graduados en Literatura Comparada en la Universidad de Puerto Rico y obtuvo su doctorado en Literatura Latinoamericana en la Universidad de Georgetown. Ha impartido clases en Emory University Middlebury College y actualmente...