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Artesana de sí misma reevalua el lugar de Gabriela Mistral, premio Nobel de literatura, en la historia literaria e intelectual de America Latina. Cabello Hutt acerca a los lectores a la amplia, pero……続きを見る

En las últimas décadas-especialmente a partir de los noventa-ha habido una visible reemergencia del siglo XIX en la cultura del Cono Sur. Figuras decimonónicas típicas (indios, gauchos, letrados y c……続きを見る

This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity (including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic imperialism) focuses on the work of four writers: the Mozambican Mia Couto, th……続きを見る

Entre los mltiples modos de acercarse a un autor tan polifactico y prolfico como el escritor peruano Mario Vargas Llosa, quien gan el premio Nobel de 2010, Guadalupe Mart-Pea ha elegido ver al novel……続きを見る

Este libro intenta mostrar la representación textual de las islas Galápagos desde su descubrimiento hasta nuestros días. El argumento principal sugiere que la descripción de este espacio crucial par……続きを見る

Some of the most important writers of the twentieth century, including Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, and García Márquez, have explored ambiguous sites of a disquieting nature. Their characters face mergi……続きを見る

Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a rem……続きを見る

Lo que en un principio fue una imagen ecuatoriana fijada en mi retina –la de Falcón cargando a Gallegos Lara- no se debilitó con el tiempo. Todo lo contrario. De hecho, es una imagen viajera que pas……続きを見る

Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts explores alternative approaches to Caribbean texts from transnational and multilingual perspectives. The authors query what new systems and criteria……続きを見る

This book explores the current human rights crisis created by the War on Drugs in Mexico. It focuses on three vulnerable communities that have felt the impacts of this war firsthand: undocumented Ce……続きを見る

The historical novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves map black journeys from Africa to the Americas in a way that challenges the Black Atlantic paradigm that has become synonymous……続きを見る

Global South Modernities: Modernist Literature and the Avant-Garde in Latin America examines the seminal influence that Latin American writers had on the style, subject matter, and ideology of liter……続きを見る

Literary depictions of drowning or burial at sea provide fascinating glimpses into the often-conflicted human relationship with memory. For many cultures and religious traditions, properly rememberi……続きを見る

This book investigates how nature and history intertwined during the violent aftermath of the Latin American Wars of Independence. Synthesizing intellectual history and readings of textual productio……続きを見る

El presente estudio analiza el desarrollo del discurso político y sociológico de la ideología del mestizaje a partir de principios del siglo XIX, así como sus alcances en los albores del XXI. El aná……続きを見る

Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in the anglophone Caribbean as represented and critically debated in literary texts, music and film. This volume is groundbr……続きを見る

Ashé-Caribbean Literary Aesthetic in the Cuban, Colombian, Costa Rican, and Panamanian Novel of Resistance contributes to understanding the important role that African-influenced spiritualcultures p……続きを見る

This comparative literature study explores how writers from across Ireland and Latin America have, both in parallel and in concert, deployed symbolic representations of the dead in their various ant……続きを見る

"Você sabe que também sou escritor?", perguntou Guimarães Rosa ao entregar um exemplar de Sagarana a Paulo Rónai, pedindo uma opinião. Os dois haviam se conhecido naquele mesmo ano de 1946, quando P……続きを見る

A dividing line, the border is usually perceived in terms of separation and rupture. It is a site of tension par excellence, at the origin of contestations, negotiations, and other conflicting patte……続きを見る

Galardonado con el I Premio de Ensayo Hispánico Klaus D. Vervuert, este estudio se aproxima a las apropiaciones latinoamericanas y caribeñas de La tempestad de William Shakespeare atendiendo al prob……続きを見る

This volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. While Wide Sargasso Sea famously displays overt forms of literary influences, Jean Rhys's entire oe……続きを見る

Piedra, papel y tijera se propone como una metáfora del juego y del combate. Porque de eso se trata este libro que recuerda, recoge y reescribe en su mayoría las obsesiones que han articulado el pen……続きを見る

Este sexto y último tomo de la Historia comparada de las literaturas argentina y brasileña se ocupa del período que se extiende entre 1970 y 2010. Este momento de la historia se corresponde a la exp……続きを見る

This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals. This study considers how island dwellers con……続きを見る

Desafíos, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadanía: mutantes y monstruos en la producción cultural latinoamericana reciente se inserta dentro del creciente interés en los estudios sobre ciudadan……続きを見る

Octavio Paz: Ontology and Surrealism discusses poet Octavio Paz (1914–1998), one of Mexico´s most controversial intellectuals. Over several decades, Paz has been celebrated for his impact on literat……続きを見る

Este não é apenas mais um livro sobre Clarice. Nestas páginas, documento lírico e intimista da amizade de Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna e Marina Colasanti com Clarice Lispector, o leitor terá oportuni……続きを見る

Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America. Literature and "Interregnum" examines the unraveling of the political forms of modernity throu……続きを見る

Proposes a theoretically rich treatment of temporality within exile as "gerundive" time. This book is a philosophical reflection on the experience of time from within exile. Its focus on temporality……続きを見る