Central & South American 8

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

Description American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured decades in the penal system before becoming a renowned poet and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse……続きを見る

Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--Jos? Victorino Lastarria ……続きを見る

The exiles, immigrants, and travellers represented in Latinocanadá include Jorge Etcheverry (Chile), Margarita Feliciano (Argentina), Gilberto Flores Patiño (Mexico), Alfredo Lavergne (Chile), Alfon……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Das Herz der Finsternis " ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Das Herz der Finsternis ist in eine Rahmenhand……続きを見る

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Aquí se analizan estética e ideológicamente diferentes historias, donde la voz de la infancia es utilizada como una estrategia literaria que, mediante un artificio la perspectiva infantil en manos d……続きを見る

Este libro analiza la narrativa de Roberto Bolaño dentro del contexto total de su producción literaria, permitiendo trazar los aspectos esenciales que nutren la escritura de Bolaño en esa conjunción……続きを見る

Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer are writers renowned for crafting narratives of great technical skill that resonate with potent truths on the colonial condition. Yet given the ge……続きを見る

El texto recoge varios artículos sobre la obra de Pedro Lemebel: Carlos Monsiváis, Adrián Cangi, Jean Franco, Francine Masiello, Bernardita Llanos, entre otros. 続きを見る

Este libro sobresale por las auto/biografías y testimonios que permiten vislumbrar las vidas personales, casi íntimas, de algunas de las autoras y críticas destacadas de Cuba; por la información que……続きを見る

Artículos escritos para revistas y periódicos, referencias críticas, textos prologales, diálogos de mesa y sobremesa, conversaciones al botón de lo cotidiano o al arte del birlibirloque, libretas de……続きを見る

Erotismo y Homosexualidad en la Narrativa Chilena pretende hacer un recorrido histórico de las primeras creaciones homoeróticas para contextualizar el surgimiento de las primeras novelas chilenas qu……続きを見る

Durante el proceso de edición del presente libro el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) publica su Informe de Desarrollo Humano, dedicado este año al tema de la seguridad ciuda……続きを見る

Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations,……続きを見る