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In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the Amer……続きを見る

A retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nineteenth century Written by both established and eme……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

Extrait :  Le bonheur, qui jadis inspirait mes accents, A fait place aux sombres alarmes ; C’est une Muse en deuil qui me dicte ces chants, Aujourd’hui trempés de mes larmes. Oui, les Muses, d……続きを見る

Extrait : Quelque part dans l’État de Nevada, il existe une femme à qui j’ai menti sans vergogne pendant deux heures d’affilée. Je ne cherche point ici à faire mes excuses, loin de là ! Je désire se……続きを見る

This collection of essays explores cultural phenomena that are shaping masculine identities in contemporary Spain, asking and striving to answer these compelling questions: what does it mean to be a……続きを見る

In One-Way Tickets, Borinsky offers up a splendid tour across 20th-century literatures, providing a literary travelogue to writers and artists in exile. She describes their challenges in adjusting t……続きを見る

This book focuses on sex and sexuality in post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Countering the critical orthodoxy that literature from this period dealt with sex only tangentially, implicit……続きを見る

Cada uno de los ensayos reunidos en este libro recoge una dimensión, un vértice, una panorámica crítica y una particularidad de la escritura de Berenguer. En esa perspectiva, la apuesta de lectura p……続きを見る

Este trabalho apresenta uma leitura do romance O coronel e o lobisomem, publicado em 1964, pelo escritor brasileiro José Cândido de Carvalho. Ao problematizar o conceito de regionalismo literário, b……続きを見る

In the twenty years of postrevolutionary rule in Mexico, the war remained fresh in the minds of those who participated in it, while the enigmas of the revolution remained obscured. Demonstrating how……続きを見る

Este livro, fruto da dissertação de mestrado do autor, busca compreender a ficção brasileira contemporânea considerando a história político-social da nação, no período que vai do fim da ditadura mil……続きを見る

As Spain and England vied for dominance of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mounting political and religious tensions between the two empires raised a troubling spe……続きを見る

Every major Peruvian author of the twentieth century has written a narrative focused on childhood or coming of age. Mining Memory argues that Peruvian narratives of the twentieth century re-imagine ……続きを見る

While there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of……続きを見る

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian au……続きを見る

From the first North American scholar permitted to study in residence at Hemingway's beloved Cuban home comes a radically new understanding of “Papa’s” life in Cuba Ernest Hemingway first landed in ……続きを見る

Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires, and Virgins is a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary work that traces the construct of female monsters as an embodiment of socio-cultural fears of fem……続きを見る

Little magazines made modernism. These unconventional, noncommercial publications may have brought writers such as James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Wallace Stevens……続きを見る

In 1890, the great Cuban revolutionary leader Jose Marti wrote his most famous poetry, Versos Sencillos, in a small town called Haines Falls in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Sincere and intens……続きを見る

When Brazil was honored at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, the Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato opened the event with a provocative speech claiming that literature, through its pervasive depiction and……続きを見る

“In this rhapsodic series of poems, Ríos presents the story of Ventura and Clemente Ríos, a married couple living near the United States-Mexico border. . . . Ríos’s project [is] indebted to magic re……続きを見る

As quatro partes deste livro correspondem às quatro tradições da planície amazônica que mais influência tiveram na obra de autores sul-americanos: macro-caribe, tupi-guarani, sistema tukano-arauaque……続きを見る

Taking a cue from influential French philosopher Jacques Rancière, who in The Emancipated Spectator rejects the idea of the passive, ignorant, duped spectators in need of instruction to become activ……続きを見る

Called by her contemporaries the "Tenth Muse," Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695) has continued to stir both popular and scholarly imaginations. While generations of Mexican schoolchildren have m……続きを見る

A través de un diálogo crítico en el que se entrecruzan diversas disciplinas y la crítica previa, este estudio invita al lector a profundizar en los modos como la literatura preserva instancias de l……続きを見る

Winner of a 2018 C. L. R. James Award for a Published Book for Academic or General Audiences from the Working-Class Studies Association Beginning with the Haitian Revolution, Scott Henkel lays out a……続きを見る

Winner, 2018 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize, presented by the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association Winner, 2018 Robert K. Martin Book Prize, presented by the Canadian American Studies Associa……続きを見る

Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression examines the methods through which the works of French Caribbean women resist hedonistic conceptions of pleasure, “art for art’s s……続きを見る

La métisse est un roman de l'écrivain canadien Jean Féron (1881 – 1946), de son vrai nom Joseph-Marc-Octave Lebel. Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte une table des matières ……続きを見る