Central & South American 48

This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature. It considers various definitions of ‘madness’ and explores the ……続きを見る

Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil brings updated criticism in English on the work of the prominent Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892–1953), a key figure in understanding the mak……続きを見る

Crime fiction has become a key element in Latin American literature. The rise in production of the genre can be explained by an urgency to explore issues of morality in societies which incorporate v……続きを見る

Writing Travel investigates the ways in which two major Latin American authors, Roberto Bolaño and Juan José Saer, engage with travel and space in their literary work. Travel and space are structure……続きを見る

Best known as Jorge Luis Borges's right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic ……続きを見る

In 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 interp……続きを見る

The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where id……続きを見る

Las relaciones entre Nietzsche y América Latina están marcadas por el desencuentro. Lo cual no implica que Nietzsche no haya sido leído en Latinoamérica; pero es diferente aludir a Nietzsche, a asum……続きを見る

The Western Sahara is the last colony in Africa and the only Spanish-speaking territory in the Arab World. This book explores the dynamic process of construction of the Saharawi identity, culture an……続きを見る

Since 2007, Afro-Puerto Rican women have been revising the foundational myths of the island and the diaspora to create a new vision of family as a national allegory that includes powerful Black prot……続きを見る

At the turn of the twenty-first century, Argentina was in the midst of its worst economic crisis in decades, the result of years of drastic neoliberal reforms. This book looks at the way ideas about……続きを見る

La literatura ha sido siempre un firme aliado del cine: le ha dado argumentos, guiones, personajes, ambientes líricos o épicos, ha implicado a escritores, dramaturgos, músicos, intelectuales, crític……続きを見る

G**ulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a single……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

The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where id……続きを見る

This book exposes how turn-of-the-twentieth-century Hispanic authors broke from European and American Gothic models to contend with their own anxieties over modernity and rising first-wave feminisms……続きを見る

The four writers of this study – Norah Lange, Silvina Ocampo, Estela Canto and Silvina Bullrich – are rarely considered together. Each, however, made their literary start within the close-knit circl……続きを見る

This book offers a fresh reading of Latin American modernism through the lenses of gender and space. By analysing the contributions of eight contemporaneous women – four writers and four plastic art……続きを見る

Dieses Buch geht von der These aus, dass die koloniale Thematik im frankokaribischen Roman der 1980er Jahre bis heute omnipräsent ist, um die undokumentierte Vergangenheit der Region literarisch zu ……続きを見る

Este libro recoge los ensayos de siete autores que reflexionan sobre la forma en que la figura del narrador chileno José Donoso se ha modificado tras la aparición de fuentes documentales inéditas. P……続きを見る

La littérature brésilienne actuelle est une invitation permanente à faire l’expérience de productions romanesques et poétiques caractérisées par l’émergence de nouvelles propositions esthétiques et ……続きを見る

"Armado de la teoría literaria queer, formalista y poscolonial, Juan Pablo Rivera escudriña la obra narrativa de cinco autores puertorriqueños contemporáneos. Su cuidadoso análisis de una novela cor……続きを見る

Known for his superrealism and magical images born of the imagery of the Chicano/South Western culture, Ray Gonzalez gives new imagery and intensity to the mystery and common miracles of that cultur……続きを見る

En 1966, sept ans après l’avènement de la révolution cubaine, un nouveau groupe poétique naît autour de la revue El caimán barbudo affiliée au parti communiste de Cuba. Leur écriture est turbulente,……続きを見る

In the seventeenth century, even as the Spanish Habsburg monarchy entered its irreversible decline, the capital of its most important overseas territory was flourishing. Nexus of both Atlantic and P……続きを見る

An in-depth analysis of literary and cultural productions from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and their diasporas Spirals in the Caribbean responds to key questions elicited by the human rights cr……続きを見る

Included in "The Best Books in (and on) Translation We Read in 2025" b****y Words Without Borders In this witty and incisive memoir, Suzanne Jill Levine – winner of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award ……続きを見る

La notion d'écriture-mouvement nous invite à saisir la singularité de l'œuvre de la Mexicaine Cristina Rivera Garza dans son processus d'engendrement. L'illusion que ses œuvres réfléchissent le gest……続きを見る

Quelle sera l’atmosphère créée par Rodó critique, par Rodó, esprit sage et savant ? O curieuses contradictions de l’art ! Pour cet érudit paisible qui n’a jamais quitté encore sa ville natale, ce se……続きを見る

Issu de la haute bourgeoisie terrienne, Alfredo Gangotena, né à Quito (1904-1944), est un poète équatorien bilingue - français-espagnol - d'une rare qualité. Arrivé en France, encore adolescent, il ……続きを見る