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This book is an in-depth study of Latina girls, portrayed in five coming-of-age narratives by using spaces and places as hermeneutical tools. The texts under study here are Julia Alvarez’s Return to……続きを見る

U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish remains an understudied field despite its large and vibrant corpus. This is partly due to the erroneous impression that this literature is only written in English, ……続きを見る

Robinson Crusoe, an adventure tale that fascinated such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and J. M. Coetzee, has been an international best-seller for three hundred years……続きを見る

This book is about Enlightenment culture in Spanish America before Independenceーin short, there where, according to Hegel, one would least expect to find it. It explores the Enlightenment in texts ……続きを見る

Lo mejor de la mirada crítica de Ángel Rama quedó plasmada en los ensayos que componen esta obra, referente indudable de los estudios literarios realizados desde América Latina. El crítico uruguayo ……続きを見る

In 2007 the French newspaper Le Monde published a manifesto titled “Toward a ‘World Literature’ in French,” signed by forty-four writers, many from France’s former colonies. Proclaiming that the fra……続きを見る

False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975–1992) examines the “return of history” that swept across the Americas during the final two decades of the Cold……続きを見る

In "Froudacity; West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained," J. J. Thomas intricately dissects the fables and narratives proposed by British historian James Anthony Froude, highlighting th……続きを見る

In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey. She lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible ……続きを見る

Gianluca Delfino's encounter with one of the Caribbean's most controversial authors illuminates Wilson Harris's imaginative approach to history and time. Delfino references several novels, with a sp……続きを見る

Honorable Mention, 2022 MLA Prize for a First Book Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean is the first academic work on Muslims in the English-speaking Caribbean. Khan focuses on the ficti……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

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2022 Edited Book Award Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avilés, Trevor Boffone, Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guad……続きを見る

Como tantas otras ciudades que han encontrado el reflejo en la literatura y en el cine, Buenos Aires no se queda atrás. Es la ciudad que presenta múltiples caras, tiene fama de cosmopolita, culta; p……続きを見る

In "A History of Spanish Literature," James Fitzmaurice-Kelly provides a comprehensive and meticulously researched examination of the evolution of literary expression in Spain from the medieval peri……続きを見る

Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and rul……続きを見る

How do diasporic writers negotiate their identities through and with food? What tensions emerge between the local and the global, between the foodways of the past and of the present? How are concept……続きを見る

Édouard Glissant’s work has begun to make a significant impact on francophone studies and some corners of postcolonial theory. His literary works and criticism are increasingly central to the study ……続きを見る

A groundbreaking exploration of motherhood in Caribbean women's literature. This collection of essays fills a critical gap in literary scholarship by examining the multifaceted representations of mo……続きを見る

Borges and Black Mirror convenes a dialogue between one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, the philosophical fabulist Jorge Luis Borges, and one of the most important writers ……続きを見る

A identidade afro-brasileira é tomada como mote para reler os romances Jubiabá, Gabriela, cravo e canela e Tenda dos milagres, buscando caracterizar os traços de tradição, tradução, hibridismo e res……続きを見る

En este libro se ofrece una vista panorámica, y con una visión particular, de la novela mexicana, desde Fernández de Lizardi hasta Federico Gamboa. A todos losautores aquí presentados los une el com……続きを見る

Migrant and Tourist Encounters: The Ethics of Im/mobility in 21st Century Dominican and Cuban Cultures analyzes the effects of clashing flows of voluntary and involuntary travelers to and from these……続きを見る

Trazendo textos de crítica literária escritos para a revista Veja nos anos 1970, Experiência critica supera a mera compilação: organizado pelo próprio autor, o livro convida à reflexão sobre o papel……続きを見る

This book understands digital cultural production of electronic literatures and digital art by looking at electronic and digital works that produce subjective positionality, clouded knowledges of qu……続きを見る

La obra de Abraham Valdelomar ha sido un desafío para los estudios literarios tradicionales. El afán por ubicarlo en generaciones y periodos se ha topado con una obra tan contradictoria como su auto……続きを見る

Caribbean women have long utilized the medium of fiction to break the pervasive silence surrounding abuse and exploitation. Contemporary works by such authors as Tiphanie Yanique and Nicole Dennis-B……続きを見る

Lewis Spence's "The Popol Vuh: The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kichés of Central America" serves as a profound exploration of the Kiché Maya's creation myth and historical narratives. Spence empl……続きを見る

Con estos ensayos de los mas nombrados criticos de la obra de Pablo Neruda aqui reunidos, este libro pretende rindirle homenaje al gran critico de la obra del Premio Nobel chileno, Hernan Loyola. Al……続きを見る

Este libro reúne la colaboración de tres importantes escritores, así como la de dieciséis destacados investigadores, en torno a la obra del escritor mexicano Mario Bellatin. Con un abordaje crítico ……続きを見る