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A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being by Kaiama L. Glover
RRP: $28.37$24.76In 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
$17.81West 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
$53.84The 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
$25.50An 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: $28.37$24.76During 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
$21.38Jorge 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: $103.20$98.83The 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: $30.95$26.88Against 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... -
Le Maya Q'atzij/Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala by Emil' Keme
RRP: $25.79$22.63Bringing 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... -
Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination: Reading and Writing the Creole by Veronica Marie Gregg 9780807845042
RRP: $60.57$55.93As the foremost white West Indian writer of this century and author of the widely acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea , Jean Rhys (1890-1979) has attracted much critical attention, most often from the perspective of gender analysis. Veronica Gregg extends... -
La Malinche in Mexican Literature: From History to Myth by Sandra Messinger Cypess
RRP: $25.79$22.63Of 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... -
Writing Revolution in Latin America: From Marti to Garcia Marquez to Bolano by Juan De Castro
$48.05In the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the violent realities of their time and place. Writing Revolution in Latin America is a chronological study of... -
Cervantes: Don Quixote by Anthony J. Close
RRP: $27.08$23.79Anthony Close's study places Don Quixote in the context of Cervantes' life and literary career, and in the book's cultural and social background. It focuses primarily on the central problems of Cervantine comedy, the use of burlesque, the presentation of... -
Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic by Alvaro Santana-Acuna
RRP: $28.38$22.39Gabriel 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... -
Funeral for Flaca by Emilly Prado 9781892061874
RRP: $18.06$10.38Apologies 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... -
Samba: Resistance in Motion by Barbara Browning
RRP: $20.63$18.37Barbara Browning combines a lyrical, personal narrative with incisive theoretical accounts of Brazilian dance cultures. While she brings ethnographic, historiographic, and musicological scholarship to bear on her subject, Browning writes as a dancer,... -
Selected Writings of Andres Bello by Andres Bello 9780195105469
RRP: $25.79$22.12Andres Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major... -
Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition by Aaron Kamugisha 9780253036261
RRP: $50.31$44.01Against 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... -
On the Edge of the Holocaust - The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture by Edna Aizenberg
RRP: $41.28$40.13In 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... -
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
RRP: $28.37$24.76In Thiefing Sugar, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley explores the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers, revealing in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women. She takes the book's title from Dionne Brand's novel In Another Place,... -
Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean by Sarah Lawson Welsh 9781783486618
RRP: $50.31$44.34How 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... -
Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature by Simon Gikandi
RRP: $20.63$18.37In 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... -
Fictions of Whiteness: Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel by Maeve McCusker 9780813946788
RRP: $41.22$40.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813946788Author Maeve McCuskerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Selected Cronicas by Clarice Lispector
$13.02"In 1967, Brazil's leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wished. For almost seven years, Lispector showed Brazilian readers just how vast and passionate her interests were. This beautifully... -
Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas through their Literature by Gordon Brotherston 9780521314930
RRP: $64.49$56.01The Book of the Fourth World offers detailed analyses of texts that range far back into the centuries of civilised life from what is now Latin- and Anglo-America. At the time of its 'discovery', the American continent was identified as the Fourth World... -
New Caribbean Junior English Book 1 by Frances Mordecai 9780602252403
$16.37Reinforce 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. -... -
Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba by Yvonne Daniel
RRP: $20.63$18.37Using 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... -
Spirit Possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou Thought: An Intellectual History by Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken 9780739184653
RRP: $161.25$141.06This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory. The author takes the period of the 1930s and '40s, as the centerfold of a more complex network of relations that places Haiti as... -
The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean by Giselle Liza Anatol 9780813565736
RRP: $46.44$36.56The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the soucouyant, or Old Hag-an aged woman by day who sheds her skin... -
Five and One Theses on Modernity: Buenos Aires Across the Arts, 1921-1939 by Eleni Kefala
RRP: $53.54$49.06By 1920, Buenos Aires was the largest and most cosmopolitan city of Latin America due to mass immigration from Europe. Unbridled urban expansion had drastic effects on the social and cultural topography of the Argentine capital, raising ideological and... -
The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary by Erin Graff Zivin 9780822343325 [USED COPY]
RRP: $118.68$30.48Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Traslados/Translations: Essays on Latin America in Honour of Jason Wilson by Claire Lindsay 9780956754912
$35.35This volume is an investigation of some of the enduring preoccupations of one of the UK's foremost Latin Americanists. The essays, by a distinguished group of scholars including former students, colleagues, and intellectual interlocutors, reflect a... -
The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction by Ramon E Soto-Crespo 9780814214213
$143.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214213Author Ramon E Soto-CrespoFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 481g -
The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel by Efrain Kristal 9780521825337
RRP: $70.95$64.20The 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... -
An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature by Jean Franco 9780521444798
RRP: $141.90$124.39This 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... -
Julio Cortazar: New Readings by Carlos J. Alonso 9780521452106
RRP: $147.06$126.61The articles gathered within this 1998 book address the Argentine writer Julio Cortazar's oeuvre from a variety of critical positions and focus on several of his multifarious writings: poems, short stories, novels, and miscellanea. The intention has been... -
The Spanish American Regional Novel: Modernity and Autochthony by Carlos J. Alonso 9780521372107
RRP: $116.10$99.45Carlos Alonso's study provides a radical re-examination of the novela de la tierra or regional novel, which plays a central part in the development of Latin American fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. He identifies the regional novel as... -
At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America by Sylvia Molloy 9780521331951
RRP: $147.06$132.46This study of Spanish American autobiography from its beginnings in the post-colonial nineteenth century to the present day concentrates mainly on cultural and historical issues. Spanish American autobiographies are fascinating hybrids, often wielding... -
Three Sad Races: Racial Identity and National Consciousness in Brazilian Literature by David T. Haberly 9780521155342
RRP: $47.72$40.39Brazilians have traditionally and very accurately viewed their nation as the product of the coming together and subsequent interaction of its disparate racial ancestry: native American Indians, Portuguese settlers and African slaves. Examining the social... -
Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere by Anna Brickhouse 9780521101011
RRP: $50.30$42.91This wide-ranging comparative study argues for a fundamental reassessment of the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within the transamerican and multilingual contexts that shaped it. Drawing on an array of texts in English, French...