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Myth and History in the Contemporary Spanish Novel by Jo Labanyi 9780521288460
RRP: $77.68$65.75Since the Civil War, Spanish novelists have produced a noteworthy body of fiction. In this book, Jo Labanyi provides detailed textual analysis of six of the most important novels to have been written during this period: Martin-Santos' Tiempo de silencio,... -
Spanish in the United States: Sociolinguistic Aspects by Jon Amastae 9780521286893
RRP: $102.88$89.12When this book was first published in 1982, there were approximately eleven million Spanish-speaking people in the United States. This volume constitutes a comprehensive and accessible set of readings on the Spanish spoken in the United States. The... -
Julio Cortazar: New Readings by Carlos J. Alonso 9780521174961
RRP: $65.08$57.54The 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... -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: New Readings by Bernard McGuirk 9780521122825
RRP: $69.28$59.60This volume of essays constitutes a critical reappraisal of a front-rank world author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. Apart from extending critical appreciation of his work to an English-reading public,... -
The Cantar de mio Cid: Poetic Creation in its Economic and Social Contexts by Joseph J. Duggan 9780521062978
RRP: $73.48$63.69In this study, Joseph Duggan interprets the Cantar de mio Cid as a work that transmutes moral values first into the economic values of a gift economy, then into genealogical values. Considering the poem's distortions of history more significant than its... -
Kant's Early Critics: The Empiricist Critique of the Theoretical Philosophy by Brigitte Sassen 9780521037648
RRP: $77.68$65.75This book, first published in 2000, offers translations of the initial (1781-89) critical reactions to Kant's philosophy. Also included is a selection of writings by Kant's contemporaries who took on the task of defending the critical philosophy against... -
At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America by Sylvia Molloy 9780521022804
RRP: $79.78$67.79This 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... -
Language, Authority, and Indigenous History in the Comentarios reales de los Incas by Margarita Zamora 9780521019644
RRP: $92.38$80.09The Comentarios reales de los incas, a classic of Spanish Renaissance prose narrative, was written by Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, the son of an Inca princess and a Spanish conquistador. It is full of ideological tensions and apparent contradictions as... -
A History of Argentine Literature by Alejandra Laera 9781009283045
RRP: $210.00$209.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009283045Author Alejandra LaeraFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980: Volume 4 by Amanda Holmes 9781009177764
$189.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009177764Author Amanda HolmesFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature by Daniel Noemi Voionmaa 9781009153607
RRP: $157.50$142.25Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature examines secret police reports on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Elena Poniatowska, Jose Revueltas, Otto Rene Castillo, Carlos Cerda, and other writers, from archives in... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Spanish Poetry: Spain and Spanish America by D. Gareth Walters 9780521791229
RRP: $157.50$132.95The 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel: From 1600 to the Present by Harriet S. Turner 9780521771276
RRP: $157.50$133.79The 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... -
Galdos and the Irony of Language by Diane F. Urey 9780521673327
RRP: $65.08$53.45Benito Perez Galdos was the foremost Spanish novelist of the nineteenth century. His novels are frequently compared with those of Dickens and Balzac, and considered examples of nineteenth-century realism. In a speech before the Spanish Academy of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture by John King 9780521631518
RRP: $149.10$135.66The 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 Cuban Condition: Translation and Identity in Modern Cuban Literature by Gustavo Perez Firmat 9780521327473
RRP: $189.00$170.16The sense of the radical newness of Spanish America found in literary works from the chronicles of the conquest to the work of the criollistas has more recently given way to a stronger recognition of the transatlantic roots of much Spanish-American... -
The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges by Edwin Williamson 9780521193399
RRP: $151.20$137.53Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century and the most influential author in the Spanish language of modern times. He had a seminal influence on Latin American literature and a lasting impact on literary fiction... -
The Substance of Cervantes by John G. Weiger 9780521168342
RRP: $77.68$65.75There have been many interpretations of Cervantes' works over the centuries. In this 1986 book, John G. Weiger examines what he considers to be the 'substance' of Cervantes: the writer's attitude toward originality, his concern for the reader's... -
Sur: A Study of the Argentine Literary Journal and its Role in the Development of a Culture, 1931-1970 by John King 9780521121217
RRP: $65.08$55.50This book tells the story of Sur, Argentina's foremost literary and cultural journal of the twentieth century. Victoria Ocampo (its founder and lifelong editor) and Jorge Luis Borges (a regular and influential contributor) feature prominently in the... -
The Cuban Condition: Translation and Identity in Modern Cuban Literature by Gustavo Perez Firmat 9780521027328
RRP: $81.88$69.85The sense of the radical newness of Spanish America found in literary works from the chronicles of the conquest to the work of the criollistas has more recently given way to a stronger recognition of the transatlantic roots of much Spanish-American... -
Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry by Arthur Terry 9780521023214
RRP: $81.88$69.85This is the first comprehensive study in English of one of the most important bodies of verse in European literature. Seventeenth-century Spanish poetry represents the culmination of a rich Renaissance tradition, and Professor Terry sets out to make this... -
Fictions of Whiteness: Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel by Maeve McCusker 9780813946771
RRP: $170.10$163.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813946771Author Maeve McCuskerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Temptation of the Word by Kristal 9780826513441
$81.14Temptation of the Word is an ambitious and careful reading of the creative process-the origin of themes and the development of literary techniques-that Mario Vargas Llosa has brought to each of his novels that have been published through 1997. To... -
Civil Obedience: Complicity and Complacency in Chile since Pinochet by Michael Lazzara 9780299317249
RRP: $46.10$43.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299317249Author Michael LazzaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin Press -
Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction by Jason R. Marley 9780813950143
$67.96Difficult Reading offers a new approach to formal experimentation in Caribbean literature. In this insightful study, Jason Marley demonstrates how the aggressive, antagonistic elements common to the mid-twentieth-century Caribbean novel foster emotional... -
Rum Histories: Drinking in Atlantic Literature and Culture by Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt 9780813946580
RRP: $170.10$163.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813946580Author Jennifer Poulos NesbittFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia... -
Jungle Fever: Exploring Madness and Medicine in Twentieth-Century Tropical Narratives by Charlotte Rogers 9780826518323
$81.14The sinister ""jungle""-that ill-defined and amorphous place where civilization has no foothold and survival is always in doubt-is the terrifying setting for countless works of the imagination. Films like Apocalypse Now, television... -
Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging by Vivian Nun Halloran 9780814215111
$221.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215111Author Vivian Nun HalloranFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba: A Critical Edition by James J. O'Kelly 9780813946924
RRP: $205.80$203.87In late 1872, the New York Herald named James J. O'Kelly its special correspondent to Cuba, to cover what would later be known as the Ten Years' War. O'Kelly was tasked with crossing Spanish lines, locating the insurgent camps, and interviewing the... -
The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War by Deborah Cohn 9780826518057
$81.14During the 1960s and 1970s, when writers such as Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa entered the international literary mainstream, Cold War cultural politics played an active role in disseminating their work in... -
The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature by Anne Margaret Castro 9780813943459
$64.49From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritual practices. The Sacred Act of Reading examines religion and sociopolitical power in modern and... -
Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction by Laura Barbas-Rhoden 9780813044156
RRP: $41.90$33.41From the rainforests of Costa Rica and the Amazon to the windswept lands of Tierra del Fuego, Laura Barbas-Rhoden discusses the natural settings within contemporary Latin American novels as they depict key moments of environmental change or crisis in the... -
Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction by Jason R. Marley 9780813950136
$207.35Difficult Reading offers a new approach to formal experimentation in Caribbean literature. In this insightful study, Jason Marley demonstrates how the aggressive, antagonistic elements common to the mid-twentieth-century Caribbean novel foster emotional... -
Sugar's Secrets: Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism by Vera M. Kutzinski 9780813914671
$77.05How and why has Cuba's national identity been cast in terms of a cross-cultural synthesis called ""mestizaje"", and what roles have race, gender, sexuality and class played in the construction of that synthesis? What specific... -
Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature: Literary and Cultural Essays by Jesus Rosales 9780814254172
$49.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254172Author Jesus RosalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 308g -
When the Devil Knocks: The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama by Renee Alexander Craft 9780814252109
$64.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252109Author Renee Alexander CraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Jose Marti, the United States, and Race by Anne Fountain 9780813054797
$43.01A national hero in Cuba and a champion of independence across Latin America, Jose Marti produced a body of writing that has been theorized, criticized, and politicized. However, one of the most understudied aspects of his work is how his time in the... -
The Spanish American Regional Novel: Modernity and Autochthony by Carlos J. Alonso 9780521064620
RRP: $65.08$49.98Carlos 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... -
Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial by Rapael Dalleo 9780813931999
$68.84Bringing together the most exciting recent archival work in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean studies, Raphael Dalleo constructs a new literary history of the region that is both comprehensive and innovative. He examines how changes in... -
Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo by Thomas F. Anderson 9780813054728
$58.59The poetry associated with Afrocubanismo has been of great interest to academics since the movement began in the late 1920s. Thomas Anderson's detailed analysis infuses new life into the study of these remarkable works. Focusing on the representations of...