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The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon by Mariana Casale O'Ryan 9781781880777
£40.18Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Narrative and National Allegory in Romulo Gallegos's Venezuela by Jenni M. Lehtinen 9781907322792
£40.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322792Author Jenni M. LehtinenFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research... -
The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon by Mariana Casale O'Ryan 9781781880784
£17.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781880784Author Mariana Casale O'RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research... -
Miguel Angel Asturias's Archeology of Return by Reni Prieto 9780521434126
RRP: £58.00£52.01Miguel 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... -
Antonio Candido y los estudios latinoamericanos by Raúl Antelo 9781930744059
RRP: £35.00£31.73"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 idea of freedom in Vargas Llosa's fiction: From socialist beginnings to a liberal world view by Friedrich Ahnert 9783111319346
RRP: £91.00£76.19Apologies 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 -
Treinta años de estudios literarios/culturales latinoamericanistas en Estados Unidos: Memorias, testimonios, reflexiones críticas by Hernán Vidal 9781930744325
£36.07Los 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... -
Jose Carlos Mariategui's Unfinished Revolution: Politics, Poetics, and Change in 1920s Peru by Melisa Moore 9781611484625
RRP: £102.00£89.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Adalberto Ortiz: From Margin to Center by Marvin A. Lewis 9781611461336
RRP: £81.00£71.06Pablo 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... -
The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance: Intrepid Post-Revolution Artists and Writers by Elena Poniatowska 9783031111761
RRP: £109.99£98.73This 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... -
I-Sight: The World of Rastafari: An Interpretive Sociological Account of Rastafarian Ethics by Jack A. Johnson-Hill 9780810828957
RRP: £115.00£100.74Rastafari 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: Between Literature and Mass Culture by Esperanca Bielsa 9780739113769
RRP: £40.00£35.22The 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... -
En un golpe de tos sintio volar la vida: Gaspar Octavio Hernandez, Obras escogidas by Johnny Webster 9780761824701
RRP: £51.00£44.62En un golpe de tos sintio volar la vida is an in-depth discussion of Panamanian poet Gaspar Octavio Hernandez. From early in his career, Hernandez received accolades for his poetry and subsequently gained nationwide recognition. The author places... -
Manuel D az Rodr guez: Evolution and Dynamics of the Stylist by Marianna Merritt Matteson 9781882528028
RRP: £55.00£44.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882528028Author Marianna Merritt MattesonFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Scripta HumanisticaPublisher Scripta HumanisticaWeight(grams) 345g -
Made of Shores: Judeo-Argentinean Fiction Revisited by Amalia Ran 9781611460148
RRP: £81.00£71.06This book offers to rethink identities within contemporary Judeo-Argentinean fiction by dealing with the transforming notion of Jewishness and of national identity in Argentina. It focuses on the dialogue (and confrontation) between the narrative text... -
Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean by Sarah Lawson Welsh 9781783486601
RRP: £113.00£98.62How 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... -
Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels by Earl E. Fitz 9781611486209
RRP: £98.00£85.70This 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... -
Post-Conflict Central American Literature: Searching for Home and Longing to Belong by Yvette Aparicio 9781611485479
RRP: £81.00£71.06Post-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,... -
The Black Butterfly: Brazilian Slavery and the Literary Imagination by Marcus Wood 9781949199031
RRP: £32.95£27.75The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants-Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. These authors wrote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Brazil moved into and then... -
Introduction to Latin American Literature: A Bilingual Anthology by Jack Child 9780819196941
RRP: £61.00£53.16This innovative college-level textbook for third-year college Spanish courses introduces the student to Latin American literature using a unique bilingual approach in which an English translation parallels the Spanish original. As such it is appropriate... -
Post-Global Aesthetics: 21st Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures by Gesine Müller 9783111530581
RRP: £18.50£14.71Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the surge of political populism show that the current phase of accelerated globalization is over. New concepts are needed in order to respond to this exhaustion of the global project: the... -
Cruzar las Américas: Perspectivas hemisféricas en lenguajes, literaturas y culturas visuales by Yvette Sánchez 9781930744691
RRP: £35.00£31.73Esta colección de ensayos participa en el trabajo de revsión de los imaginarios de las Américas que se lleva a cabo desde hace unas décadas. Asistimos a una despolarización de la historia económica, política y cultural, manifiesta en una marcada... -
Nomads, Exiles, & Emigres: The Rebirth of Latin American Narrative, 1960-80 by Ronald Schwartz 9780810813595
RRP: £57.00£49.74An introduction to contemporary Latin American narrative published in the 1970s, presenting ten major writers. Each chapter covers the biography, career of the author and one important novel in depth while attempting to summarize major critical opinions... -
Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams by Rebecca E. Biron 9781611484700
RRP: £102.00£89.14Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams uses Elena Garro's eccentric life and work as a lens through which to examine mid-twentieth-century Mexican intellectuals' desire to reconcile mexicanidad with modernidad. The famously scandalous first wife of Nobel... -
Deconstructing Paradise: Inverted Religious Symbolism in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature by Patricia E. Reagan 9781498524711
RRP: £83.00£72.79Deconstructing Paradise investigates Christian symbols that appear in Latin American Literature in an inverted way. The texts under investigation invert the Christian center to generate a social, political, cultural, or even artistic commentary. In doing... -
Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martin Espada by Edward J. Carvalho 9781611476415
RRP: £105.00£92.13Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martin Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martin Espada. It is also, to date, the only published book-length, single-author study of Espada currently in... -
Del manuscrito al libro: Materialidad del texto y critica genética en la novela iberoamericana: 1969-1992 by Rafael Clíment-Espíno 9781930744806
RRP: £35.00£31.73Del manuscrito al libro revela, tomado como punto de partida el manuscrito original de cuatro novelas, el importante sustrato de materiales textuales que esconden los libros. El estudio cuestiona que el formato de libro tradicional –el códice– sea el... -
Reimagining the Caribbean: Conversations among the Creole, English, French, and Spanish Caribbean by Valerie Orlando 9780739194195
RRP: £92.00£80.53This volume brings together scholars working in different languages-Creole, French, English, Spanish-and modes of cultural production-literature, art, film, music-to suggest how best to model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent aspects... -
Spaces of Madness: Insane Asylums in Argentine Narrative by Eunice Rojas 9781498507912
RRP: £45.00£39.49Spaces of Madness examines the role of madness and irrationality in the works of four key Argentine novelists: Julio Cortazar, Ricardo Piglia, Juan Jose Saer, and Luisa Valenzuela. Situating these works within the deconstructivist framework provided by... -
Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American Context by Maria Mercedes Andrade 9781611487336
RRP: £99.00£86.56From the cabinets of wonder of the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and... -
Crossing the Line: Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation by Candace Ward 9780813940014
£29.85Crossing the Line examines a group of early nineteenth-century novels by white creoles, writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their experiences in Britain's Caribbean colonies. Colonial subjects residing in the West Indian colonies... -
Cuban American Fiction in English: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources by M. Delores Carlito 9780810856806
RRP: £53.00£46.32Among Hispanic literatures, Cuban-American fiction is unique because of the Cuban-American disposition to regard themselves as exiles rather than immigrants. Many Cuban-Americans have never been to Cuba and therefore must rely on the memories of those... -
Ricardo Piglia: una poética sin límites by Adriana Rodríguez Pérsico 9781930744196
RRP: £35.00£31.73Hoy en día los textos de Piglia integran programas académicos y figuran en las listas de best-sellers. Los artículos que componen esta obra, coinciden en la coherencia y fidelidad del proyecto literario de Piglia a la vez que rechaza imposiciones... -
Heterotropías: narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana by Carlos A. Jáuregui 9781930744097
RRP: £35.00£31.73Hay un riesgo en la relación entre crítica y producción textual ya que puede ser inevitablemente metafórica. Esta relación está cargada de peligros tanto políticos como teóricos. Este volumen asume ese riesgo sabiendo del carácter ineludible de la... -
Ironía y violencia en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea by Brigitte Adriaensen 9781930744820
RRP: £35.00£31.73El presente libro se propone explorar los vínculos entre la ironía –y sus formas contiguas como el cinismo, el absurdo, la parodia o el humor negro– y la violencia en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea. El objetivo consiste en crear un... -
Tiranas ficciones: poética y política de la escritura en la obra de Horacio Castellanos Moya by Magdalena Perkowska 9781930744868
£36.07La obra de Horacio Castellanos Moya es un referente crucial no sólo para imaginar el pasado y el presente centroamericano, sino para examinar las implicaciones políticas que derivan de la escritura literaria en español en la era neoliberal. El presente... -
Full Teleón: Sierpes de León de Greiff by Bruno Mazzoldi 9781930744585
RRP: £35.00£31.73"En Full Teleón. Sierpes de León de Greiff, el fantasma mismo del “ensayo como forma” nos hace señas desde el resplandor. Bruno Mazzoldi replica al don imposible de León de Greiff con otro don imposible, convirtiendo el intercambio literario en un... -
Saberes americanos: Subalternidad y epistemología en los escritos de Sor Juana by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel 9781930744028
RRP: £35.00£31.73La obra de Sor Juana muestra un interés muy marcado por el saber y por la descripción de los procesos de adquisición de conocimiento y el desarrollo de la capacidad intelectual humana en un contexto muy particular; una sociedad colonial que intenta... -
Fuera del canon: escrituras excéntricas de América Latina by Carina González 9781930744592
RRP: £35.00£31.73Toda afirmación de un canon pone en evidencia ciertos regímenes de visibilidad mediante los que se autorizan las producciones artísticas. Sin embargo algunas escrituras cuestionan las disposiciones estéticas organizadas bajo esta norma y se proponen como... -
The Latin American Urban Cronica: Between Literature and Mass Culture by Esperanca Bielsa 9780739113752
RRP: £108.00£94.31The 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...