Caribbean & Latin American

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...

En 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...

Apologies 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

This 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...

How 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...

This 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 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 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...

This 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...

Phenomena 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...

Esta 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...

An 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 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 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 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 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...

This 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 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...

From 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 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...

Among 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...

Hoy 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...

Hay 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...

El 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...

La 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...

"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...

La 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...

Toda 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 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...

Colaboran: 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...

Gabriel 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...

'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...

This 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...

Colaboran: 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...

Darwinism 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...

"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...

La 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...

"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...

Luis 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 studies often-overlooked contemporary poetry. Through the exploration of poetry and a select number of short stories, this book contemplates the meanings of home,...