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Vodou in Haitian Memory: The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination by Celucien L. Joseph 9781498508346
RRP: €107.10€98.91Throughout Haitian history-from 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti-arguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an "unsettling faith" and a "cultural paradox," as expressed... -
This Earth, That Sky: Poems by Manuel Bandeira by Candace Slater 9780520302938
RRP: €40.46€31.48This is a generous, long-overdue presentation of the major Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968) to the English-speaking reader. Well over a hundred poems appear here in both Portuguese and English, together with a critical overview that introduces... -
How to Write an Earthquake: Comment Ecrire Et Quoi Ecrire / Mo Pou 12 Janvye by Natasa Durovicova 9780984303670
RRP: €5.89€4.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984303670Author Natasa DurovicovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Autumn Hill BooksPublisher Autumn Hill BooksWeight(grams) 159g -
Women in Hispanic Literature: Icons and Fallen Idols by Beth Miller 9780520302754
RRP: €40.46€31.48The topics covered by this pioneering collection of essays range from peninsular Spanish to Latin American literature, from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries, and from the subject of women as portrayed in Hispanic literature to the literature of... -
Aztlan and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War by George Mariscal 9780520214057
€34.84Showcasing over sixty short stories, poems, speeches, and articles, "Aztlan and Viet Nam" is the first anthology of Mexican American writings about the U.S. war in Southeast Asia. The words are startlingly frank, moving, and immensely powerful,... -
Beyond Bolano: The Global Latin American Novel by Hector Hoyos 9780231168434
RRP: €29.75€22.82Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolano and the fictional work of Cesar Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Hector Hoyos defines and explores new... -
Beyond Bolano: The Global Latin American Novel by Hector Hoyos 9780231168427
RRP: €59.50€45.71Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolano and the fictional work of Cesar Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Hector Hoyos defines and explores new... -
Ten Days in Jamaica by Ifeona Fulani 9781845231996
RRP: €10.70€7.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845231996Author Ifeona FulaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd -
Fugue and Other Writings by Neville Dawes 9781845231095
RRP: €11.89€8.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845231095Author Neville DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd -
Caribbean Erotic: Poetry, Prose and Essays by Opal Palmer Adisa 9781845230890
RRP: €17.84€12.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230890Author Opal Palmer AdisaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd -
Absolute Equality: An Early Feminist Perspective/Influencias de Las Ideas Modernas by Luisa Capetillo 9781558855229
€20.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558855229Author Luisa CapetilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Arte Publico PressPublisher Arte Publico PressWeight(grams) 522g -
Elektrik: Caribbean Writing by Sarah Coolidge 9781949641509
RRP: €20.17€12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949641509Author Sarah CoolidgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Two Lines PressPublisher Two Lines PressWeight(grams) 68g -
Cuba: A Traveler's Literary Companion by Ann Louise Bardach 9781883513115
RRP: €13.08€11.96Travel to Cuba in the company of its finest writers and gain an understanding of its remarkable mystique. The twenty-one stories in this volume -- some of which appear in English for the first time -- will take you on an odyssey through the country's... -
Caribbean Cultural Identities by Glyne Griffith 9780838754757
€109.55Essays examine the construction of cultural identities in the English-speaking CaribbeanBook InformationISBN 9780838754757Author Glyne GriffithFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.Publisher Associated University Presses -
Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature by Kate Houlden 9780367869342
RRP: €54.73€49.99This book is the first to focus exclusively on issues of gender and sexuality in a range of post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Concentrating on the 1950s to the mid 1970s, it highlights the period's diversity of sexual concerns. New readings... -
Contemporary Short Stories from Central America by Enrique Jaramillo Levi 9780292740341
RRP: €30.93€29.00This volume collects some of the best short fiction from the six Spanish-speaking countries of Central America-Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Selected from stories written between 1963 and 1988, it is a broad... -
Cicatrices: Central American Fiction in the 21st Century by Jeffrey Browitt 9781845199982
RRP: €35.70€34.11Cicatrices offers an understanding of the current mood in Central American fiction as writers attempt to come to terms with a collapsing social, political and economic landscape dominated by forced migration, drug trafficking, corruption and the struggle... -
América Latina en la “literatura mundial” by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado 9781930744264
RRP: €41.65€39.52'A partir de la formulación de Goethe en las primeras décadas del siglo XIX, el concepto de “literatura mundial” ha constituido una propuesta a partir de la cual se han articulado disciplinas como la filología, la historiografía y la literatura comparada... -
Cervantes: Essays in Memory of E.C. Riley on the Quatercentenary of Don Quijote by Jeremy Robbins 9781138010390
RRP: €52.35€47.89This volume commemorates the quatercentenary of Don Quijote (Part I, 1604-05), widely acknowledged to be the 'first modern novel'. Through Don Quijote, his Exemplary Novels and other major works, Cervantes, Spain's master novelist, has for centuries... -
Brazil: A Traveler's Literary Companion: A Traveler's Literary Companion by Alexis Levitin 9781883513214
RRP: €13.08€8.78This vital collection is as eclectic and electric as Brazil itself. These stories -- ranging from vignettes, sketches, and prose poems to traditional narratives -- cover a wide geography, physically, thematically, and stylistically. Tales of nature and... -
Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature by Emma Staniland 9781138547674
RRP: €57.11€52.10This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region's socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late... -
Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant by Nick Nesbitt 9781786940384
RRP: €35.69€34.09Caribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from... -
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 by Daniel Balderston 9780415306874
RRP: €130.90€119.73The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the... -
Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad by Jennifer Sparrow 9781580051392
RRP: €22.60€20.33Stories from Blue Latitudes gathers the major and emerging women fiction writers from the Caribbean, including Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Merle Collins, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Pauline Melville. Similar themes grace... -
Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez by Juan Ramon Jimenez 9780374527457
RRP: €26.18€16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527457Author Juan Ramon JimenezFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion by C. M. Mayo
€13.23Mexico has long been the top travel destination for Americans. But until now, there has not been such a panoramic vision of offered by some of Mexico's finest contemporary writers of fiction and literary prose. Here are writings -- many translated for... -
The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas by Sara E. Johnson
RRP: €54.74€42.15"The Fear of French Negroes" is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1845). Using visual culture,... -
The Muse in Mexico: A Mid-Century Miscellany by Thomas Mabry Cranfill
RRP: €28.55€24.29This volume, originally published as a supplement to The Texas Quarterly in 1959, contains a collection of Mexican fiction, poetry, and art from the mid-twentieth century.Book InformationISBN 9780292768031Author Thomas Mabry CranfillFormat PaperbackPage... -
Cicatrices: Central American Fiction in the 21st Century by Jeffrey Browitt
€125.69Cicatrices provides an understanding of the mood in Central American fiction over the last five years. Many recent novels and short stories are aesthetic responses to a difficult social, political and economic landscape dominated by neoliberal... -
The First Naipaul World Epics: From the Mystic Masseur to an Area of Darkness and Beyond by J Vijay Maharaj
€109.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390358427Author J Vijay MaharajFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury Academic IndiaWeight(grams) 135g -
Firefly by Severo Sarduy
RRP: €15.46€10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935744641Author Severo SarduyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 215g -
From Our Land To Our Land: Essays, Journeys, and Imaginings from a Native Xicanx Writer by Luis Rodriguez
RRP: €17.84€11.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809720Author Luis RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Cervantes: Essays in Memory of E.C. Riley on the Quatercentenary of Don Quijote by Jeremy Robbins
RRP: €154.70€138.68This volume commemorates the quatercentenary of Don Quijote (Part I, 1604-05), widely acknowledged to be the 'first modern novel'. Through Don Quijote, his Exemplary Novels and other major works, Cervantes, Spain's master novelist, has for centuries... -
Crossfire: A Litany for Survival by Staceyann Chin
RRP: €57.12€38.20Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book. According to The New York Times, Chin is "sassy, rageful and sometimes softly self-mocking." The Advocate says... -
Huerto Cerrado by Alfredo Bryce Echenique by David Wood 9780719064135
RRP: €17.84€13.23Alfredo Bryce Echenique is one of the most widely-read and most widely translated Latin American authors of recent decades, yet this is the first critical edition that makes his work available to students of Hispanic literatures in the English-speaking... -
Otrarse: Ladino Poems Juan Gelman 9780826366795
RRP: €26.12€22.21One of Latin American's most important poets of the twentieth century, Juan Gelman (1930-2014 spent much of his life in exile from his native Argentina during the Dirty War. A significant, seldom-acknowledged portion of Gelman's poetry dealt with Jewish... -
Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America Jennifer L. French 9780826507457
RRP: €35.64€30.30Changes in the Landscape is a collection of timely essays that bring the methodologies and commitments of ecocriticism to bear on the study of Latin American literature and cultural production. The book’s eleven chapters, written by some of the leading... -
Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America Jennifer L. French 9780826507464
RRP: €102.34€86.99Changes in the Landscape is a collection of timely essays that bring the methodologies and commitments of ecocriticism to bear on the study of Latin American literature and cultural production. The book’s eleven chapters, written by some of the leading...