Caribbean & Latin American

Comparing 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...

A 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...

Recorded 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,...

Poetry, 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...

Life 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...

An 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...

As 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...

In this innovative study, Jenny Sharpe moves beyond the idea of art and literature as an alternative archive to the historical records of slavery and its aftermath. Immaterial Archives explores instead the intangible phenomena of affects, spirits, and...

During 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...

Indigenous 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...

Honorable 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...

The 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...

In 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...

West 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...

Of all the historical characters known from the time of the Spanish conquest of the New World, none has proved more pervasive or controversial than that of the Indian interpreter, guide, mistress, and confidante of Hernan Cortes, Dona Marina-La...

Jorge 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...

The 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...

Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration In 1954, Guatemala suffered a coup d'etat, resulting in a decades-long civil war. During this period, Indigenous Mayans...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients...

Against 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...

In Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women's Cultural Critiques of Nation, Andrea Davis imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond the competitive forms of belonging suggested by the nation-state. The book employs the tropes of horizon, sea,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Essays) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781892061874Author Emilly PradoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Future Tense...

Master 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...

In recent years the English-speaking world has at last begun to recognize the enormous diversity and value of contemporary Latin American literature. But while the works of writers like Borges, Garcia Marquez, Allende, Vargas Llosa, Galeano and Asturias...

In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment of...

Reinforce learning across a range of subjects with an integrated approach to Language Arts featuring cross-curricular material reflecting life in the Caribbean. - Help students develop their reading and writing skills with a wide range of activities. -...

In 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...

In Simon Gikandi's view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity-a relationship in which the Caribbean writer, unable to escape a history encoded by...

Using dance anthropology to illuminate the values and attitudes embodied in rumba, Yvonne Daniel explores the surprising relationship between dance and the profound, complex changes in contemporary Cuba.From the barrio and streets to the theatre and...

This book offers the first sustained and comprehensive discussion of the Jamaican writer, Olive Senior's extensive oeuvre, including poetry, short stories and socio-cultural writings published from the late 1970s onwards. Now resident in Toronto,...

Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) is one of the notable literary figures in Latin America who in the 1920s contrived both to explore and to define Latin literature within the mainstream of Western history. He managed to be poetic, political and...

"Há muito o mais conceituado dos críticos e teóricos brasileiros de cunho sociológico, Antonio Candido é, de fato, referência obrigatória em tudo o que tange ao tratamento do texto dentro do contexto na América Latina durante a segunda metade do século...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111319346Author Friedrich AhnertFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter

Los estudios literarios/culturales latinoamericanistas en los programas de español y portugués en Estados Unidos los realizan profesores de diferentes generaciones, orígenes nacionales y momento de ingreso al sistema universitario. Proceden de múltiples...

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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...

This book consists of a collection of essays by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska in their first English translation, and a critical introduction. The highly engaging essays explore the lives of seven transformational figures for Mexican feminism. This...

Rastafari is one of the most significant yet least understood new religious movements in the twentieth century. Originating in Jamaica in the 1930s, it has evolved into a popular international phenomenon. Yet scholars have continued to view Rastafari in...

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...