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The Fourth World by Diamela Eltit
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36No one can be closer to another than a mother to her unborn child. No one, that is, except unborn twins jostling for space in the womb. In this concise and inventive novel, a twin brother and sister... -
Diamela Eltit: Essays on Chilean Literature, Politics, and Culture by Diamela Eltit 9781951634339
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951634339Author Diamela EltitFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Never Did the Fire by Diamela Eltit
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61What happens when two revolutionaries are left with nothing to believe in, not even each other?Never Did the Fire unfolds in the humdrum of everyday working class existence, making the afterlife of... -
(Con)Fusing Signs and Postmodern Positions: Spanish American Performance, Experimental Writing, and the Critique of Political Confusion by Robert Neustadt 9781138864436
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Foregrounding a strategy of experimental techniques which Neustadt call (con)fusing signs, the book explores critical and political dimensions of contemporary Spanish American artistic practices that... -
Strange Tastes: Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms Monique Roelofs 9781478038658
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Strange Tastes is a philosophical excursion into aesthetic experience and the public through the works of contemporary Latin American and Latinx women writers and artists. In a careful study of this... -
(Con)Fusing Signs and Postmodern Positions: Spanish American Performance, Experimental Writing, and the Critique of Political Confusion by Robert Neustadt
Booksplease Price: £46.49Foregrounding a strategy of experimental techniques which Neustadt call (con)fusing signs, the book explores critical and political dimensions of contemporary Spanish American artistic practices that... -
Women's Writing In Latin America: An Anthology by Sara Castro-klaren
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24In the last two decades Latin American literature has received great critical acclaim in the English-speaking world, although attention has been focused primarily on the classic works of male... -
The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms Guillermina De Ferrari 9781032285955
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume... -
Ethics and Literature in Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay, 1970-2000: From the Singular to the Specific by Carlos M. Amador 9781137548719
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book argues for a new reading of the political and ethical through the literatures of Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay from 1970-2000. Carlos Amador reads a series of examples from the last... -
Subject to Change: The Lessons of Latin American Women's Testimonio for Truth, Fiction, and Theory by Joanna R. Bartow 9780807892848
Booksplease Price: £33.74By analyzing testimonial writing, works of fiction, and critical theory, Joanna R. Bartow examines the self-representation of testimonial subjects. She questions limits on reading testimonio that... -
Women, Memory and Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction: Palabra de Mujer by Gustavo Carvajal
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £54.09In what ways do the politics of memory perpetuate gendered images of those directly affected by political violence in Chile? Can the literary rewriting of painful experiences contest existing... -
Conversations in Chile: Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews Hans Ulrich Obrist 9781736840825
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05Roberto Matta, Cecilia Vicuña, Alfredo Jaar, Paz Errázuriz and others offer insight into Chilean art and politics This volume looks closely at the Chilean experimental art scene, in which... -
National Trauma in Postdictatorship Latin American Literature: Chile and Argentina by Irene Wirshing 9781433105555
RRP: £65.75Booksplease Price: £58.63National Trauma in Postdictatorship Latin American Literature: Chile and Argentina examines the traumatic experiences of Chile and Argentina under authoritarian regimes and argues that in order for... -
Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place by Jacqueline Loss 9781403970343
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.65This book examines Latin America's history of engagement with cosmopolitanisms as a manner of asserting a genealogy that links cultural critique in Latin America and the United States... -
The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era by Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano 9781477316184
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism have been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art-expecially the claim that political freedom can be... -
Margen, espejo: Poesía chilan y marginalidad social (1983-2009) by Martina Bortignon 9781930744776
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.92En este libro, la autora explora como una serie de obras poeticas chilenas configuran una representacion de la marginalidad donde se visibilizan proyecciones simbolicas y libidinales de la comunidad... -
The Chilean Dictatorship Novel: Memory, Postmemory, Affect, and Emotions by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson 9780826366191
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02Though the civil-rights abuses by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990) were later recognized by reparations and truth commissions, the difficult emotions suffered by the victims and their... -
Cultural Residues: Chile In Transition by Nelly Richard
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46A complex portrait of postdictatorial Chile by one of that country's most incisive cultural critics, this book uses memoirs, photographs, the plastic arts, novels, and other texts-the "residues" of a... -
Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America by Susana Draper
Booksplease Price: £54.06During the age of dictatorships, Latin American prisons became a symbol for the vanquishing of political opponents, many of whom were never seen again. In the postdictatorship era of the 1990s, a... -
Latin American Women and the Literature of Madness: Mental Disturbance at the Crossroads of Politics and Gender by Elvira Sanchez-Blake 9780786474851
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19At the turn of the millennium, narrative works by Latin American women writers have represented madness within contexts of sociopolitical strife and gender inequality. This book explores contemporary... -
Catching Fire: A Translation Diary by Daniel Hahn
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95An energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.In Catching Fire , the translation of Diamela Eltit's Never Did the Fire unfolds... -
Chilean Women's Poetry under Neoliberalism, 19802020 Brbara Fernndez-Melleda 9781399541497
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £74.65Chilean Women's Poetry under Neoliberalism, 1980-2020 explores how the works of 6 women poets interact with the imposition and development of neoliberalism in Chile over 4 decades. The book follows a... -
Speculative Fictions: Chilean Culture, Economics and the Neoliberal Transition by Alessandro Fornazzari 9780822962335
Booksplease Price: £48.99Speculative Fictions views the Chilean neoliberal transition as reflected in cultural production from the postdictatorship era of the 1970s to the present. To Alessandro Fornazzari, the move to... -
Symbols of Hope, Resistance and Change: Female Characterization in the Novel of the Dictatorship by Lori Lammert 9781433177347
RRP: £71.15Booksplease Price: £63.28There are few critical studies about female characterization in the novel of the Latin American dictatorship. The existing studies, "La mujer ante la dictaduraen las dos primeras novelas de Isabel... -
Beyond Bolano: The Global Latin American Novel by Hector Hoyos 9780231168427
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.37Through 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... -
Beyond Bolano: The Global Latin American Novel by Hector Hoyos 9780231168434
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.80Through 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... -
Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile: Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence by Michael J. Lazzara 9780230622760
Booksplease Price: £46.74Since the demise of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990, collaboration and complicity - both in the torture chamber and civil society - have been taboo topics not only for the Chilean left but also for... -
Violence in Argentine Literature and Film (1989-2005): 1989-2005 by Carolina Rocha
Booksplease Price: £38.22Why has violence been a predominant topic in contemporary Argentine film and literature? What conclusions can be drawn from the dissemination of violent images and narratives that depict violence in... -
A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture Sara Castro-Klaren (Johns Hopkins University, USA) 9781118492147
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.06A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE "The work contains a wealth of information that must surely provide the basic material for a number of study modules. It should find a place on... -
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... -
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Literature and "Interregnum": Globalization, War, and the Crisis of Sovereignty in Latin America by Patrick Dove 9781438461557
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.91Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.Literature and "Interregnum" examines the unraveling of the political forms of modernity through... -
Touched Bodies: The Performance Turn in Latin American Art by Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Shortlisted for the 2020 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize Winner of the 2019 Art Journal Prize from the College Art Association What is the role of pleasure and pain... -
Touched Bodies: The Performance Turn in Latin American Art by Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra 9781978802032
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.40Shortlisted for the 2020 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize Winner of the 2019 Art Journal Prize from the College Art Association What is the role of pleasure and... -
The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era by Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.85In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism have been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art-especially the claim that political freedom can be... -
Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from the Margins by Olga Bezhanova 9781793619433
Booksplease Price: £86.43Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from the Margins explores the limitations of the transnationalist approach to feminism and questions the neoliberal emphasis on... -
The Insubordination of Signs: Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis by Nelly Richard
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile's neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural... -
Masculine/Feminine: Practices of Difference(s) by Nelly Richard
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile's neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural... -
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Masculine/Feminine: Practices of Difference(s) by Nelly Richard 9780822333029 [USED COPY]
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £8.00Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile's neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural... -
Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from the Margins by Olga Bezhanova 9781793619457
Booksplease Price: £37.81Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from the Margins explores the limitations of the transnationalist approach to feminism and questions the neoliberal emphasis on... -
Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás 9781914484858
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A dazzling follow-up to Life as told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. 'We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were...