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This book explores representations of sentient-flesh ー flesh that holds consciousness of being ー in Puerto Rican women’s literature. It considers how different literary devices can participate in ……続きを見る

This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature’s greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of Wes……続きを見る

Throughout his political and military career, Omar Cabezas fought to transform Nicaragua, to implement the ethics that had led him to participate in the armed struggle against Anastasio Somoza’s reg……続きを見る

En 1938 todos nosotros éramos principiantes y lo que escribíamos era casi siempre un balbuceo, aunque ese balbuceo no careciese de emoción y de profundidad en ciertos casos, como el de Revueltas. Pe……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

A current and comprehensive collection of articles on the Jewish presence in Latin America, this multidisciplinary volume draws on the research and analysis of some of the most prominent scholars in……続きを見る

Modernidad sublimada ambiciona articular una respuesta teórica a las singularidades artísticas y políticas que sostiene la producción cultural de la región rioplatense. El estudio del dramaturgo uru……続きを見る

Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide attention to ……続きを見る

Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts traces the existence of a now largely forgotten history of inter-American alliance-making, transnational community formation, and intercultural collaboration betwe……続きを見る

Winner, 2021 NACCS Book Award, given by the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies Explores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fictio……続きを見る

This book discusses new developments of plant studies and plant theory in the humanities and compares them to the exceptionally robust knowledge about plant life in indigenous traditions practiced t……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

The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work. The volume is divided into six sections……続きを見る

Em 60 anos de carreira e 80 de vida, Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda já deixou importantes marcas na cultura brasileira: revelou importantes poetas, discutiu o pensamento feminista de forma pioneira, ch……続きを見る

Os ensaios reunidos em Cidade de Lobos discorrem sobre as formas de representação das margens urbanas na obra de Rubens Figueiredo, um dos mais expressivos escritores da literatura brasileira contem……続きを見る

 In American Westerns, the main characters are most often gunfighters, lawmen, ranchers and dancehall girls. Civil professionals such as doctors, engineers and journalists have been given far less ……続きを見る

With global debt, labor, and environmental crises on the rise, the precarious position of people in the Global South has become a significant force moving people across countries, continents, and ar……続きを見る

The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil’s literary giantsーMachado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. These authors wrote in the late nineteenth and early ……続きを見る

Ariana E. Vigil’s interdisciplinary study, Public Negotiations: Gender and Journalism in Contemporary US Latina/o Literature examines how the boundaries of the Latina/o public sphere are negotiated ……続きを見る

Providing an intellectual interpretation to the work of Edwidge Danticat, this new edited collection provides a pedagogical approach to teach and interpret her body of work in undergraduate and grad……続きを見る

Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothicfocuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothicーthe double. This volume explores how this ancient notion acquires tremendous force in a re……続きを見る

Audible Geographies in Latin America examines the audibility of place as a racialized phenomenon. It argues that place is not just a geographical or political notion, but also a sensorial one, shape……続きを見る

Poetic Encounters in the Americas: Remarkable Bridge examines the ways in which U.S. and Latin American modernist canons have been in cross-cultural, mutually enabling conversation, especially throu……続きを見る

"En Blancura y otras ficciones, la doctora López Rodríguez se enfoca en un tema que recientemente ha sido más tratado por antropólogos e historiadores que por críticos literarios: la emergencia, en ……続きを見る

The Kaleidoscopic Vision of Malcolm Lowry: Souls and Shamans is an interdisciplinary investigation of the multifaceted, intuitive insight of international modernist writer Malcolm Lowry through an a……続きを見る

El libro 'Opiniones' de Rubén Darío es una obra que reúne una serie de ensayos y artículos donde el autor reflexiona sobre la literatura, la cultura y la sociedad de su tiempo. Ubicada en el context……続きを見る

This book consists of the study of five Brazilian novels produced in the last decades of the nineteenth century: O mulato (1881), O cortigo (1890), both by Aluisio Azevedo, A came (1888), by Julio R……続きを見る

This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces different conceptualizations of space and time in scenarios of war during the last decades of the 19th century, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay……続きを見る

Poetry, fiction, literary history, and politics. These four cornerstone concerns of Roberto Bolaño's work have established him as a representative, generational figure in not only Chile, Mexico, and……続きを見る

Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature is a collection of selected essays about the transformations of captivity experiences in major early modern texts of world literature and popular media, in……続きを見る