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The Voice of the Masters: Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature by Roberto Gonzaalez Echevarraia
RRP: $33.58$29.90By one of the most original and learned critical voices in Hispanic studies- a timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature. An ideology is implicit in modern Latin American... -
New Caribbean Readers : Work Book 1 Infant (Revised) by Louis Fidge
$13.02Provide an introduction to reading with exciting stories, poems and activities. - Develop visual and cognitive skills with stimulating activities in the Pre-Reader. - Provide suggestions for exercises, ranging from phonics and numbering, to... -
Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing by David William Foster
RRP: $33.58$29.90A taboo subject in many cultures, homosexuality has been traditionally repressed in Latin America, both as a way of life and as a subject for literature. Yet numerous writers have attempted to break the cultural silence surrounding homosexuality, using... -
The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary by Erin Graff Zivin
RRP: $44.08$38.58While Jews figure in the work of many modern Latin American writers, the questions of how and to what end they are represented have received remarkably little critical attention. Helping to correct this imbalance, Erin Graff Zivin traces the symbolic... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel: From 1600 to the Present by Harriet S. Turner
RRP: $54.58$46.18The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture by John King 9780521636513
RRP: $56.68$48.72The term Latin America refers to the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking states created in the early 1820s following the wars of independence, states that differed enormously in geographical and demographical scale, ethnic composition and economic resources,... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel by Efrain Kristal 9780521532198
RRP: $65.08$56.22The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several... -
A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555 by A. Saunders 9780521130035
RRP: $81.88$69.85This book, originally published in 1982, was the first detailed study of black slavery in Portugal during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when the Portuguese brought Europe into contact with black Africa and originated the Atlantic slave-trade... -
Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss by John E. Drabinski
RRP: $44.08$38.58A reevaluation of Edouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness While philosophy has undertaken the work of accounting for Europe's traumatic history, the field has... -
New Caribbean Junior Readers 1 by Diane Browne 9780602226732
$31.23Build on infant foundations to develop the reading and language skills needed by 7 to 11 year olds in Books 1-4, and consolidate and reinforce these skills with Book 5 for the final year of Primary School. - Develop comprehension and critical thinking... -
An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature by Jean Franco
RRP: $92.38$81.96This is a revised, updated edition of Jean Franco's classic Introduction to Spanish-American Literature, first published in 1969 and much recommended ever since. Its coverage ranges from colonial times to the present day, the later chapters having been... -
Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging by Vivian Nun Halloran
$66.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258699Author Vivian Nun HalloranFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu by Edgar Garcia
RRP: $54.60$52.19Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia makes clear in Signs of the Americas. Rather than being... -
Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution by Laurie R. Lambert 9780813944265
$44.75In 1979, the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement under Maurice Bishop overthrew the government of the Caribbean island country of Grenada, establishing the People's Revolutionary Government. The United States under President Reagan infamously invaded... -
Framing Roberto Bolano: Poetry, Fiction, Literary History, Politics by Jonathan Beck Monroe
RRP: $65.08$39.98Poetry, fiction, literary history, and politics. These four cornerstone concerns of Roberto Bolano's work have established him as a representative, generational figure in not only Chile, Mexico, and Spain, the three principal locations of his life and... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Spanish Poetry: Spain and Spanish America by D. Gareth Walters 9780521794640
RRP: $48.28$41.08The Cambridge Introduction to Spanish Poetry comprises an extended survey of poetry written in Spanish from the Middle Ages to the present day, including both Iberian and Latin American writing. This volume offers a non-chronological approach to the... -
Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic in Caribbean Writing by Kwame Dawes 9781900715225
RRP: $31.48$22.62Kwame Dawes speaks for all those for whom reggae is a major part of life. He describes how reggae has been central to his sense of selfhood, his consciousness of place and society in Jamaica, his development as a writer - and why the singer Ken Boothe... -
The Bowling Was Superfine: West Indian Writing and West Indian Cricket by Stewart Brown 9781845230548
RRP: $46.18$33.08Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald present a multi-faceted portrait of the significance of cricket to the Caribbean and the attraction of Caribbean cricket to the outside world. With poems, calypsos, stories, extracts from novels, essays, speeches and... -
Experiments in Exile: C. L. R. James, Helio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness by Laura Harris
RRP: $46.18$40.30Comparing the radical aesthetic and social experiments undertaken by two exile intellectuals, Experiments in Exile charts a desire in their work to formulate alternative theories of citizenship, wherein common reception of popular cultural forms is... -
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Selected Works by Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz 9780393920161
RRP: $31.48$29.46Edith Grossman's acclaimed translations of The Tenth Muse's best known works are offered here with introductory materials and explanatory footnotes, along with related additional works and eight critical essays.About the AuthorAnna More is Professor of... -
Conversations, Volume 2 Jorge Luis Borges 9780857423009
RRP: $43.05$36.50Recorded during Jorge Luis Borges's final years, this second volume of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari provides a wide-ranging reflection on the life and work of Argentina's master writer and favorite conversationalist. In Conversations: Volume 2,... -
Paradise and Plantation: Tourism and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean by Ian Gregory Strachan 9780813921471
$58.59It is hard to ignore the hotels. They rise like mammoths of iron and concrete above the homes, the office buildings, the trees of New Providence, island of my birth. So begins Ian Strachan's history of the idea of the Caribbean as paradise. The modern... -
The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry by Stephen M. Hart
RRP: $54.58$46.18The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive,... -
Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism by Christopher Taylor
RRP: $48.28$42.02Following the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race... -
Miguel Street (Caribbean Writers Series) by V. S. Naipaul 9780435989545
$28.94Life in Trinidad is described through the eyes of a "street rab" in Miguel Street. The happy-go-lucky community abounds in eccentric characters.Book InformationISBN 9780435989545Author V S NaipaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pearson Education... -
Writing in the Air: Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures by Antonio Cornejo Polar
RRP: $44.08$38.58Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most... -
Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean by Aliyah Khan 9781978806641
RRP: $69.30$61.01Honorable Mention, 2022 MLA Prize for a First Book Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean is the first academic work on Muslims in the English-speaking Caribbean. Khan focuses on the fiction, poetry, and music of Islam in Guyana, Trinidad, and... -
Nestor Perlongher: The Poetic Search for an Argentine Marginal Voice by Ben Bollig 9780708321232
RRP: $31.50$26.38This book is the first full-length study in English of the work of the highly regarded and influential Argentine poet and anthropologist Nestor Perlongher (1949-92). Perlongher's pioneering work takes on the most dynamic and conflictive themes of... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Gerald Martin
RRP: $50.38$31.98The Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1927), wrote two of the great novels of the twentieth century, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. As novelist, short story writer and journalist, Garcia Marquez has... -
The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives by Mark McWatt 9781845231262
RRP: $41.98$29.48The short story has been integral to the development of Caribbean literature, and continues to offer possibilities for invention and reinvigoration. As the most comprehensive study of its kind, this important and timely volume explores the significance... -
Afro-Cuban Tales by Lydia Cabrera
RRP: $46.18$36.83As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing... -
Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change by Carolyn Fornoff 9780826506177
$71.30Subjunctive 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... -
A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being by Kaiama L. Glover
RRP: $46.18$40.30In A Regarded Self Kaiama L. Glover champions unruly female protagonists who adamantly refuse the constraints of coercive communities. Reading novels by Marie Chauvet, Maryse Conde, Rene Depestre, Marlon James, and Jamaica Kincaid, Glover shows how these... -
Making West Indian Literature by Mervyn Morris 9789766371746
$29.00West Indian Literature, as a body of work, is a fairly recent phenomenon; and literary criticism has not always acknowledged the diversity of approaches to writing effectively. In Making West Indian Literature poet and critic Mervyn Morris explores... -
Latin American Women's Writing: Feminist Readings in Theory and Crisis by Anny Brooksbank Jones 9780198715139
$87.65The twelve essays in this volume on Latin American women's writing are written from an explicitly theoretical and academic feminist perspective. The contributors - leading female academics working in Latin America, the US, and Europe - rethink notions of... -
The People Who Came Book 2 by Edward K. Brathwaite 9780582766587
$41.52An established and popular three-book history course for lower forms in Caribbean schools. - Test knowledge and stimulate further enquiry and thought with a wide range of questions and activities.Book InformationISBN 9780582766587Author Edward K... -
Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean by Shona N. Jackson
RRP: $46.18$40.30During the colonial period in Guyana, the country's coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as... -
Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge by Beatriz Sarlo 9781844675883
$34.80Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. Yet in all the critical debates on his work, the fact that he is Argentinian is rarely discussed, as if his international reputation had somehow... -
Violeta Parra - Life and Work by Lorna Dillon
RRP: $168.00$153.89The first book in English to consider the full extent of the accomplishments and influence the Chilean cultural icon, Violeta Parra. Violeta Parra was an extraordinary figure. She is best known for her contribution to the Latin American New Song... -
Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition by Aaron Kamugisha
RRP: $50.38$43.76Against the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbean radical thought as an answer to the conundrums of the present. Beyond Coloniality is an extended...