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Tracing corporeality and materiality across Cuban texts and images of the twentieth century This volume looks at Cuban literature and art that challenge traditional assumptions about the body. Exami……続きを見る

Pathologies of Paradise presents the rich complexity of anglophone Caribbean literature from pluralistic perspectives that contest the reduction of the region to Edenic or infernal stereotypes. But ……続きを見る

In the history of the early twentieth-century Americas, visions of hemispheric unity flourished, and the notion of a transnational American identity was embraced by artists, intellectuals, and gover……続きを見る

In Absorption Narratives, Stephanie M. Pridgeon explores cultural depictions of Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity within a comparative, inter-American framework. The dynamics of Jewishness inte……続きを見る

Addressing the question of why many Latin American fiction authors are writing about Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust now, this book charts the evolution of Latin American literary pro……続きを見る

Desacuerdos, crisis y movimientos recorre caminos insospechados, resalta las relaciones temáticas y metodológicas más subrepticias, para descartar, así, las conexiones cartográficas usuales de las l……続きを見る

En los Andes, campesinos, afrodescendientes, mestizos e indígenas hacen de las mingas prácticas de colaboración, reflexión, movilización y construcción comunitaria. A partir de estas metodologías re……続きを見る

Honoring the lifework of the comparative literature scholar, From the Americas to the World: Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora traces artistic and cultural pathways that connect Latin Americ……続きを見る

The Devil in the Details engages respectfully with previous interpretations of 19th century Cuban antislavery narratives, and suggests other ways of thinking about and understanding them in the ligh……続きを見る

Este libro abarca una crítica del impacto ontológico de la modernidad capitalista desde el Bildungsroman, el ethos barroco y la cultura juvenil que buscó construir un mundo de la vida a partir del r……続きを見る

Enfrentando la censura y el autoritarismo de la época, durante los años 80 Enrique Lihn dejó a un lado su producción poética para desplegar un conjunto de "proyectos locos", según la acertada defini……続きを見る

Winner of a 2023 Edited Collection Award from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Contributions by Cécile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner, Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel……続きを見る

A través de la revisión de un amplio número de libros impresos durante los siglos XVI-XVIII a ambos lados del Atlántico se estudia la relación entre los paratextos y los textos literarios de los aut……続きを見る

This book analyses the portrayal of violence against women in the works of ten contemporary Latin American female authors: Alejandra Jaramillo Morales, Laura Restrepo, Ena Lucia Portela, Wendy Guerr……続きを見る

How do contemporary female authors in Latin America tackle gender violence in their writings? This book analyses the portrayal of violence against women in the works of ten contemporary Latin Americ……続きを見る

The undisputed intellectual leadership of Octavio Paz, not only in Mexico but throughout Spanish America, rests on achievements in the essay and in poetry. In the field of the essay, he is the autho……続きを見る

First awarded in 1993, the Américas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean or the United States. By combining both……続きを見る

Espectros is a compilation of original scholarly studies that presents the first volume-length exploration of the spectral in literature, film, and photography of Latin America, Spain, and the Latin……続きを見る

Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean interrogates conventional notions of writing. The contributorsーwhose dis……続きを見る

¿Qué piensa y hace un profesor ?ya sea brasileño o no? al verse por primera vez delante de un grupo de estudiantes «extranjeros» para hablar sobre literatura brasileña? Aparentemente simple, l……続きを見る

What does a professor Brazilian or otherwise think and do on the first day of class, standing before a group of “foreign” students to talk about Brazilian literature? This apparently simple q……続きを見る

O que um professor brasileiro ou não pensa e faz quando se vê pela primeira vez à frente de um grupo de estudantes “estrangeiros” para falar de literatura brasileira? Aparentemente simples, a pergun……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

A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region’s literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth c……続きを見る

Lydia Cabrera (1900–1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is ……続きを見る

Atlantis Otherwise expands the study of the African diaspora by focusing on postcolonial literary expressions from Latin America and Africa. The book studies the presence of classical references in ……続きを見る

In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogen……続きを見る

In the nineteenth century, the island of Cuba was a popular site for US travelers, who wrote dozens of travelogues about their experiences. At the same time, Cuban exiles living in the United States……続きを見る

Unwriting Maya Literature provides an important decolonial framework for reading Maya texts that builds on the work of Maya authors and intellectuals such as Q’anjob’al Gaspar Pedro González and Kaq……続きを見る

The Maya Literary Renaissance is a growing yet little-known literary phenomenon that can redefine our understanding of "literature" universally. By analyzing eight representative texts of this new a……続きを見る