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The Latin American Urban Cronica: Between Literature and Mass Culture by Esperanca Bielsa 9780739113752
RRP: $139.32$125.39The 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... -
Clarice Lispector: Novos aportes críticos by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey 9781930744295
RRP: $45.15$40.93Colaboran: Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey | Moacyr Scliar | Nádia Batella Gotlib | Lucia Helena | Nelson Vieira | Renata R. Mautner Wasserman | Debra A. Castillo | Maria Aparecida Ribeiro | Claire Williams | Regina Zilberman | Maria José Somerlate... -
Magical Realism: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Dissertations and Theses by Louis V Allene 9781511779746
RRP: $19.34$17.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511779746Author Louis V AlleneFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
La poética del Caribe continental: Lirica del Caribe colombiano contemporáneo by Gabriel Alberto Ferrer Ruiz 9781930744769
RRP: $45.15$40.93Gabriel Alberto Ferrer Ruiz nació en Maontería, Colombia. Es profesor titular de la Universidad del Atlántico en Barranquilla, Colombia y fundador del Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Literarias del Caribe y de la revista Cuadernos de Literatura del... -
Excéntricos y periféricos: escritura autobiográfica y modernidad en Centroamérica by Leonel Delgado Aburto 9781930744554
RRP: $45.15$40.93'Los Sandinistas notablemente hicieron de la literatura un significante central de su proyecto político. Tiene sentido, entonces, que la cuestión de la literatura y su relación con el poder… estén en el centro de este libro. El punto de partida de... -
Jose Donoso: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Dissertations and Theses by Louis V Allene 9781511690409
RRP: $12.89$10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511690409Author Louis V AlleneFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition and Brer Rabbit by Emily Zobel Marshall 9781783481101
RRP: $45.15$41.13Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and rules imposed by governments, communities, social groups... -
Play and the Picaresque: Lazarillo de Tormes, Libro de Manuel and Match Ball by Gordana Yovanovich 9780802047045
$83.35This study takes a fresh look at the picaresque genre as seen in three important contemporary Latin American novels, Cortazar's Libro de Manuel, Skarmeta's Match Ball, and the first picaresque novel, Lazarillo de Tormes. Gordana Yovanovich considers the... -
Octavio Paz: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Dissertations and Theses by Louis V Allene 9781511678438
RRP: $16.76$14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511678438Author Louis V AlleneFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Gamaliel Churata: El escritor, el filósofo, el artista que no conocíamos by Elizabeth Monasterios Pérez 9781930744912
RRP: $45.15$40.93Colaboran: Riccardo Badini, Helena Usandizaga, Marco Thomas Bosshard, Elizabeth Monasterios, Mauro Mamani Macedo, Meritxell Hernando Marsal, Paola Mancosu, José Luis Ayala, Ladislao Landa Vásquez, Aldo Medinaceli, Rómulo Monte Alto, Arturo Vilchis... -
Juan Rulfo: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Dissertations and Theses by Louis V Allene 9781511588270
RRP: $16.76$14.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511588270Author Louis V AlleneFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Darwinism in Argentina: Major Texts (1845-1909) by Leila Gomez 9781611483864
RRP: $113.52$104.40Darwinism in Argentina: Major Texts (1845-1909) brings together essays, letters, short-stories, and public lectures by travelers, scientists, writers, and politicians about Darwin and the theory of evolution in nineteenth century Argentina. This... -
Jesús Cos Causse: poesías selectas by Jerome Branche 9781930744929
RRP: $45.15$40.93"Aquí en el Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, nos es motivo de gran honor, a través de nuestra Serie Malunga, poder aprovechar la oportunidad para rendir homenaje al gran poeta Jesús Cos Causse (1945- 2007), con una primera edición... -
Cuerpos exhumados: Desfiguraciones de la nación en la literatura ecuatoriana by Karina S. Marín Lara 9781930744936
RRP: $45.15$40.93La autora de este libro formula una invitación a problematizar la historiografía literaria ecuatoriana y, de forma implícita, cualquier corpus literario construido a partir de un proyecto nacional. Para ello, se vale de imágenes corporales problemáticas... -
Silviano Santiago y los estudios latinoamericanos by Lúcia Helena Costigan 9781930744684
RRP: $45.15$40.93"A escolha de Silviano Santiago como integrante da série Críticas deve-se ao fato de ser ele um escritor versátil e um dos poucos intelectuais e críticos contemporâneos que buscam aproximar o Brasil dos demais países latino-americanos. Como se poderá... -
La retórica de la herida: Figuraciones del desgarre corporal en la política y literatura latinoamericana by Luis Maldonado 9781930744455
RRP: $45.15$40.93Luis 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... -
Post-Conflict Central American Literature: Searching for Home and Longing to Belong by Yvette Aparicio 9781611487039
RRP: $54.18$50.94Post-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,... -
Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels by Earl E. Fitz 9781611486247
RRP: $52.89$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: $51.60$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... -
Writing through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean by Oussiena Alidou 9781498526340
RRP: $58.05$53.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
An Exploration of Cultural Healing in Derek Walcott's Omeros, a Hallmark of Modern Polyglossic Epic. by Rahman Mostafiz 9781494976989
RRP: $7.74$6.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494976989Author Rahman MostafizFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Las Raras: Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and Women Writers during Spanish-American Modernismo by Sarah Moody 9780826506887
$43.80Las Raras proposes that the Modernistas’ advocacy for a writing style they considered feminine helps us to understand why so few (and perhaps no) women were accepted as active participants in Modernismo. Author Sarah Moody studies how particular writers... -
Macho Ethics: Masculinity and Self-Representation in Latino-Caribbean Narrative by Jason Cortes 9781611486391
RRP: $49.02$46.54Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous one-a fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances. Because of its opacity and instability, masculinity, like more recognizable systems of oppression, resists... -
Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature by Ashley Hope Pérez 9780814259061
$44.05Apologies 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: $56.76$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... -
Escrituras impolíticas: Anti-representaciones de la comunidad en Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Osvaldo Lamborghini y Virgilio Piñera by Karina Miller 9781930744660
RRP: $45.15$40.93Karina Miller es Licenciada en Ciencias de la Comunicación por la Universidad de Buenos Aires y ha recibido un doctorado en Literatura Hispanoamericana en la Universidad de California, Irvine. Se ha desempeñado como Assistant professor en la Universidad... -
Relating Continents: Coloniality and Global Encounters in Romance Literary and Cultural History by Romana Radlwimmer 9783110796193
RRP: $117.39$105.08During early modern European expansion, America emerged as dynamic meeting ground, continuously forging multidirectional global encounters. Relating Continents dismisses the semantics of ‘encounter’ which, in the politics of naming, euphemistically... -
On the Scene with Migration and Dictatorship: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Work of Uruguayan Playwright Dino Armas by Gabriela Christie Toletti 9781548977313
RRP: $25.74$22.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548977313Author Gabriela Christie TolettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace... -
A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination by John Patrick Leary 9780813939162
$45.37A Cultural History of Underdevelopment explores the changing place of Latin America in U.S. culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the recent U.S.-Cuba detente. In doing so, it uncovers the complex ways in which Americans have imagined the global... -
The Woman in Latin American and Spanish Literature: Essays on Iconic Characters by Eva Paulino Bueno 9780786465996
RRP: $37.40$30.16Noted scholars of Latin American and Spanish literature here explore the literary history of Latin America through the representation of iconic female characters. Focusing both on canonical novels and on works virtually unknown outside their original... -
Cárcel y creación: Narraciones de encierro y represión política en el Caribe insular hispánico by Wanda I. Rivera-Rivera 9781930744646
RRP: $45.15$40.93Wanda I. Rivera-Rivera hizo estudios graduados en Literatura Comparada en la Universidad de Puerto Rico y obtuvo su doctorado en Literatura Latinoamericana en Harvard University. Ha impartido clases en Harvard University y en la Universidad de... -
When Me Was a Boy by Charles Hyatt 9789766402020
RRP: $34.77$20.07What was it like to be a small boy growing up in Kingston, Jamaica in the 1930's? When Me Was A Boy tells exactly what it was like. Charles Hyatt remembers his boyhood in vivid detail, and is his own inimitable voice talked about it in his radio... -
Narrative and National Allegory in Romulo Gallegos's Venezuela by Jenni M. Lehtinen 9781907322808
$22.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322808Author Jenni M. LehtinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research... -
Juan Luis Martinez's Philosophical Poetics by Scott Weintraub 9781611486070
RRP: $113.52$103.88Juan Luis Martinez's Philosophical Poetics is the first English-language monograph on this Chilean visual artist and poet (1942-1993). It has two principal aims: first, to introduce Martinez's poetry and radical aesthetics to English-speaking audiences,... -
Funeral for Flaca by Emilly Prado 9781892061874
RRP: $18.06$11.38Apologies 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... -
Postcolonial Interpretation of G. Lamming's The Pleasures of Exile: The Caribbean Identity by MD Abdul Karim Ruman 9781522936237
$7.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781522936237Author MD Abdul Karim RumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Spaces of Madness: Insane Asylums in Argentine Narrative by Eunice Rojas 9780739190869
RRP: $119.97$110.55Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. From a place of existential exile at the turn of the twentieth century to a symbolic representation of Argentine society during and... -
The Americas Award: Honoring Latino/a Children's and Young Adult Literature of the Americas by Laretta Henderson 9781498501606
RRP: $113.52$105.01First awarded in 1993, the Americas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean or the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond... -
Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater by Richard Young 9780810850996
RRP: $153.51$149.61The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia,... -
Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression by Gladys M. Francis 9781498543507
RRP: $109.65$101.66Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression examines the methods through which the works of French Caribbean women resist hedonistic conceptions of pleasure, "art for art's sake" aestheticism, and commodification through...