Central & South American 8

Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. From a place of existential exile at the turn of the twentieth century to a symboli……続きを見る

Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous oneーa fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances. Because of its opacity and instability, masculinity, like……続きを見る

As a philosophical and social concept, alienation covers a broad range of mental states, both normal and abnormal. Correspondingly, a wide range of literary forms has been employed to deal with this……続きを見る

Imagine making poems the way an architect designs buildings or an engineer builds bridges. Such was the ambition of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Though a great admirer of the thing-rich poetries of Fra……続きを見る

“Believe me: the benefits of blindness have been greatly exaggerated. If I could see, I would never leave the house, I’d stay indoors reading the many books that surround me.” ーJorge Luis Borges Da……続きを見る

Because of political, cultural, or economic difficulties in their homelands, Latin American writers have often sought refuge abroad. Their independent searches for a haven in which to write often en……続きを見る

The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from c……続きを見る

Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are c……続きを見る

In this collection, eight of Craig's most representative articles have been chosen to demonstrate his understanding of the language situation in the English-official Caribbean and the Breadth of his……続きを見る

The Terror and the Time contributes to the ongoing project of mapping the myriad ways in which contemporary individual and social scenarios and suffering are rooted in unresolved traumas bequeathed ……続きを見る

A Poetics of Performance offers fresh readings of fictions by post-1950s writers Earl Lovelace, Merle Collins, Marie-Elena John, Marlon James and Colin Channer alongside calypso, reggae and differen……続きを見る

Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kind……続きを見る

Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown . This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his cr……続きを見る

During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants,……続きを見る

One hundred years after his birth, Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is considered one of the most important thinkers of Mexican identity, one of the most influential Mexican poets, and one of the main rep……続きを見る

“Ask an authority on Brazilian culture what he considers to be the most significant artistic event in Brazil during this century,” observes John Nist, “and he will quickly reply, ‘The Modern Art Wee……続きを見る

Alejo Carpentier was one of the greatest Latin American novelists of the twentieth century, as well as a musicologist, journalist, cultural promoter, and diplomat. His fictional world issues from an……続きを見る

This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in highly exoticized island states that are still grappling ……続きを見る

Este libro es un breve informe tal como sería deseable que todos lo fueran sobre un hallazgo de incuestionable importancia para la poesía chilena en general y, en particular, para los estudios marti……続きを見る

En este mundo globalizado de migraciones e hibridaciones, la comida no solo es un conjunto de alimentos sino además, la propia acción de comer o la reunión de personas en torno a, implica una mezcla……続きを見る

Este libro participa en la discusión sobre lo nacional cultural y político. Subraya la nostalgia de “lo político”, concebida como una ausencia temporal y espacial, que nos habla de una entidad, un s……続きを見る

The 1910 Mexican Revolution saw Francisco "Pancho" Villa grow from social bandit to famed revolutionary leader. Although his rise to national prominence was short-lived, he and his followers (the vi……続きを見る

Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, Jos Asuncin Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's fines……続きを見る

In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and military interventions in Central America. This event mar……続きを見る

The world discovered Latin American literature in the twentieth century, but the roots of this rich literary tradition reach back beyond Columbus's discovery of the New World. The great pre-Hispanic……続きを見る

This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points mar……続きを見る

Of all the historical characters known from the time of the Spanish conquest of the New World, none has proved more pervasive or controversial than that of the Indian interpreter, guide, mistress, a……続きを見る

Smitten by the modernity of Cervantes and Borges at an early age, Carlos Fuentes has written extensively on the cultures of the Americas and elsewhere. His work includes over a dozen novels, among t……続きを見る

This book is distinctive by its trilingual nature; the short stories by Caribbean women writers appear in English, French, Spanish.続きを見る

Collection of essays including Joyce Adler's previously unpublished essay on Harris's cross-cultural dialogue with Melville, and a substantial autobiographical essay by Wilson Harris.続きを見る