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Desde que Edgar Allan Poe sentó sus reglas fundamentales a mediados del siglo XIX, el género policíaco ha evolucionado desde las formas más clásicas ーla resolución de un enigma o un crimen, el acer……続きを見る

Polémica, instigadora, desafiante, comprometida: Literatura argentina y política es la obra a la que David Viñas volvió obsesivamente a lo largo de su vida, desde la primera publicación de 1964 hast……続きを見る

Latin America and Existentialism is a preliminary intellectual history, prioritising literature and contextualising Latin American philosophical contributions from the 1860s to the late 1930s, decad……続きを見る

This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico. This book argues that the historical trajectory of thes……続きを見る

In Matria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past, author Tegan Zimmerman contends that there is a need for reading Caribbean women’s texts relationally. This comprehensive study argues that the wr……続きを見る

Feminist Spiritualities aims to complicate contemporary debates surrounding Black/Latinx experiences within a critical framework of decolonial thought, women of color feminisms, politicized emotiona……続きを見る

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz es un ícono de la cultura mexicana, además de ser considerada una de las voces poéticas más importantes en la historia de la literatura escrita en español. Sin embargo, est……続きを見る

Vision, Technology and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature interrogates an array of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories from Mexico whose themes engage dir……続きを見る

A study of how Caribbean immigrants to France and the UK from 1948–1998 and their descendants portray their metropolitan identities in literature and film. Creolizing the Metropole is a comparative ……続きを見る

No book until now has tied in two centuries of Mexican serial narrativesーtales of glory, of fame, and of epic characters, grounded in oral folkloreーwith their subsequent retelling in comics, radio……続きを見る

In the early twentieth century, historical imaginings of Japan contributed to the Argentine vision of “transpacific modernity." Intellectuals such as Eduardo Wilde and Manuel Domecq García celebrate……続きを見る

The Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has been acclaimed throughout the literary world as one of Latin America's finest writers, yet until recently little has been written about his work in English. While……続きを見る

Often treated like night itselfーboth visible and invisible, feared and romanticizedーLatina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representati……続きを見る

Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives. 続きを見る

The acclaimed author of García Márquez delivers “a compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest . . . writer of fantasy” (New York Daily News). Since its first publication in ……続きを見る

Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to……続きを見る

“Delves into the life and work of Juan Francisco Manzano, the enslaved Cuban poet and author of Spanish America’s only known slave narrative . . . Valuable.” ーChoice By exploring the complexities o……続きを見る

“This thoughtfully crafted . . . insightful and informative [anthology] elucidates an overlooked, essential component of the Latin American literary canon” (Choice). Latin American Women Dramatists ……続きを見る

A study exploring the role of Latina women in theater performance, literature, and criticism. Arrizón’s examination of Latina performance spans the twentieth century, beginning with oral traditions ……続きを見る

Difficult Reading offers a new approach to formal experimentation in Caribbean literature. In this insightful study, Jason Marley demonstrates how the aggressive, antagonistic elements common to the……続きを見る

An experiment in reading for water, this book offers students and teachers a toolkit of methods that follow the sensory, political and agentive power of water across literary texts. The chapters in ……続きを見る

The Pan-Hispanic short story anthology “McOndo” (Grijalbo Mondadori Barcelona, 1996), edited by the Chileans Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez, was envisaged as a forceful contestation of local and gl……続きを見る

Enrico Mario Santí gathers here thirty years´ worth of essays on Latin American literature and literary theory. The title reflects his enduring interest in the history, literature and culture of Cub……続きを見る

A literary guide to one of the most fascinating countries in the world. With its flamboyant style and rich culture, Cuba has provided the inspiration and setting for literature for decades. It has a……続きを見る

How should we understand the bugarrón, a man who has sex with other men while regarding himself as heterosexual? Reaching beyond queer and gay studies, Ramón E. Soto-Crespo’s research suggests that ……続きを見る

In 'De val van Antwerpen (oktober 1914)', Jozef Muls offers a detailed account of the fall of Antwerp during World War I. Written in a historical narrative style, Muls captures the chaos and devasta……続きを見る

Le "Bulletin de Lille, 1916-01. Publié sous le contrôle de l'autorité allemande" offre un regard fascinant sur la ville de Lille pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Ce document historique présente ……続きを見る

In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values and cultural mo……続きを見る

Ángel Rama was among the most prominent Latin American literary and cultural critics of the twentieth century. This volume brings togetherーand makes available in English for the first timeーsome of……続きを見る

The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, they forced anticolonial, antislavery, and antiraci……続きを見る