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Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage by I. Stavans 9780312240325
Booksplease Price: £46.28Imagining Columbus is Stavans's contribution to the literature on Columbus. 'My purpose,' says Stavans, 'is to revisit, to investigate, to play with the asymmetrical geometries of the admiral's... -
Unpacking My Father's Bookstore Laurence Roth 9781978836600
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.49Unpacking My Father's Bookstore brings to life the history of J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, which was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community from 1966 to 1994 and one of... -
Stavans Unbound: The Critic Between Two Canons by Bridget Kevane 9781644696095
RRP: £88.50Booksplease Price: £54.77Twenty-five years ago, Ilan Stavans published his first book, Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage (1993). Since then, Stavans has become a polarizing figure, dismissed and praised in equal... -
Knowledge and Censorship by I. Stavans 9781403984104
Booksplease Price: £33.50This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the... -
Backlands: The Canudos Campaign by Euclides da Cunha 9780143106074
Booksplease Price: £20.12"The Backlands" is a translation of Euclide da Cunha's work "Os Sertoes", a non-fictional account of the War of Canudos in Brazil during the 1890s. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the... -
Lamentations of Nezahualcoyotl: Nahuatl Poems Nezahualcoyotl 9781632063861
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00From award-winning author, editor, and translator Ilan Stavans comes a one-of-a-kind retelling of a legendary Aztec ruler's timeless verses.A king, a warrior, and a poet, Nezahualcoyotl was a... -
AN Organizer's Tale: Speeches by Cesar Chavez 9780143105268
Booksplease Price: £13.22One of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of non-violence, and effectively employed peaceful tactics to further his cause... -
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Calvert Casey: The Collected Stories by Calvert Casey 9780822321538 [USED COPY]
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £8.80Hailed as a literary relative of Kafka and Poe by his Italian and Cuban contemporaries, Calvert Casey and his enthralling work have until now remained eclipsed in the United States. This collection... -
Don Quixote of La Mancha Miguel de Cervantes 9780271082318
Booksplease Price: £14.74Originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615 and often considered "the first modern novel," Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote is undoubtedly the most influential work in the Spanish literary... -
Art and Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination by I. Stavans 9780312240318
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Fascinated by the idea of Western civilization as being a sequence of numerous misinterpretations and misrepresentations, these nineteen essays cover a broad range of topics with the unifying theme... -
Don Quixote Of La Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.18Restless Classics is a new series featuring interactive encounters with great books and inspired teachers. The first title in the series, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, has been called the first... -
Latinos in the End Zone: Conversations on the Brown Color Line in the NFL by Frederick Luis Aldama 9781137403087
Booksplease Price: £48.26Here, Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher Gonzalez offer a thought-provoking conversation on the history of Latinos in the pro football leagues. As they weave their way through significant points... -
Selected Writings by Ruben Dario 9780143039365
Booksplease Price: £17.62Born in Nicaragua, Ruben Dario is known as the consummate leader of the Modernista movement, an esthetic trend that swept the Americas from Mexico to Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century... -
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca 9780393918151
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.74Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition tells the unforgettable story of a sixteenth-century soldier turned explorer who, along with three other... -
Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile by Valerie Estelle Frankel 9781666926606
Booksplease Price: £95.49Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish fantasy. The essays in this collection cover speculative... -
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition by Cesar Vallejo
Booksplease Price: £14.52Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent... -
Delano John Gregory Dunne 9780520254336
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.92In September 1965, Filipino and Mexican American farm workers went on strike against grape growers in and around Delano, California. More than a labor dispute, the strike became a movement for social... -
Man of Ashes by Salomon Isacovici 9780803273931
Booksplease Price: £29.35In 1944 the Germans arrived and Isacovici, his family, and every other Jew from his town were pushed into cattle cars and taken ever closer to the soot and smoke of Auschwitz. He became a man of... -
One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity by Steven W. Bender 9781594514296
Booksplease Price: £60.67"Courageous." -Ilan Stavans, author of Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language Robert Kennedy and Cesar Chavez came from opposite sides of the tracks of race and class that still... -
What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) by Naomi B. Sokoloff
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.00Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a... -
The Zapatista Reader by Tom Hayden 9781560253358
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.52The electrifying effect the Zapatista peasant rebellion has had on leading figures in the intellectual, political, and literary world since the Zapatistas woke them up on New Year's Day, 1994, has... -
Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes 9780393617474
Booksplease Price: £18.48This Norton Critical Edition includes: Burton Raffel's masterful translation ("Indeed, Raffel seems to have created a Cervantine English" - Javier Herrero, University of Virginia), lightly revised by... -
I Am of the Tribe of Judah: Poems from Jewish Latin America by Stephen A. Sadow 9780826365781
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01The first anthology of its kind, I Am of the Tribe of Judah: Poems from Jewish Latin America brings together poetry from the Mexican border to the tip of South America. Originally written in Spanish,... -
Rambling Prose: Essays Steven G. Kellman 9781595349347
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.44Rambling Prose is a collection of essays by Steven G. Kellman, culled from his lifetime of work on comparative literature, criticism, and film studies. Filled with wordplay and surprising insight,... -
Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews by Janet Liebman Jacobs 9780520235175
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.26This study of contemporary crypto-Jews--descendants of European Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition--traces the group's history of clandestinely conducting their... -
Barrio Boy: 40th Anniversary Edition Ernesto Galarza 9780268209865
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.97Journey with Ernesto Galarza through time, place, and culture in this stunning memoir of Mexican American identity and acculturation. Barrio Boy is the remarkable story of one boy's journey from a... -
The Woman Who Wrote the Bible by Moacyr Scliar 9780826369314
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.10The bestselling Brazilian satire, now available in English for the first time.Moacyr Scliar was the preeminent literary voice of the Jewish immigrant experience in modern Brazil. Now his most... -
All the Odes: A Bilingual Edition by Pablo Neruda
Booksplease Price: £25.59Pablo Neruda was a master of the ode, which he conceived as an homage to just about everything that surrounded him, from an artichoke to the clouds in the sky, from the moon to his own friendship... -
Barrio Boy: 40th Anniversary Edition by Ernesto Galarza
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Journey with Ernesto Galarza through time, place, and culture in this stunning memoir of Mexican American identity and acculturation. Barrio Boy is the remarkable story of one boy's journey from a... -
Memories of Buenos Aires: Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina by Max Page 9781625340108
Booksplease Price: £35.40In the 1970s, Argentina was the leader in the Dirty War, a violent campaign by authoritarian South American regimes to repress left-wing groups and any others who were deemed subversive. Over the... -
Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary Translingualism by Steven G. Kellman 9781557538727
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74Nimble Tongues is a collection of essays that continues Steven G. Kellman's work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. A series of investigations... -
The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880 by Ivan Jaksic 9780230337497
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.58This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young... -
What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) by Naomi B. Sokoloff 9780295743752
Booksplease Price: £105.33Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a... -
The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880 by Ivan Jaksic 9781403980793
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £34.31This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young... -
Look Away!: The U.S. South in New World Studies by Jon Smith 9780822333043
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £87.07Look Away! considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States-including... -
Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories by Rosario Ferre 9780452277489
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.46Rosario Ferre uses family history as a metaphor for the class struggles and political evolution of Latin America and Puerto Rico in this highly provacative, profound, and delightfully readable... -
Antwerp by Roberto Bolano 9780811217170
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.65As Bolano's friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarria, once suggested, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano's fictional universe. Reading this novel, the reader is present... -
The Latinx Files: Race, Migration, and Space Aliens by Matthew David Goodwin 9781978815117
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £50.84In The Latinx Files, Matthew David Goodwin traces how Latinx science fiction writers are reclaiming the space alien from its xenophobic legacy in the science fiction genre. The book argues that the... -
The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism Steven G. Kellman 9781032077154
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.96Though it might seem as modern as Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and Vladimir Nabokov, translingual writing - texts by authors using more than one language or a language other than their primary one... -
Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: Ethnicity, Race, and Rights by Jorge J. E. Gracia
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80The presence and impact of Hispanics/Latinos in the United States cannot be ignored. Already the largest minority group, by 2050 their numbers will exceed all the other minority groups in the United...