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Este libro se propone analizar prácticas literarias, cinematográficas y teatrales que nos interrogan sobre el espacio entre los lazos y las rupturas –afectivos, políticos, imaginarios– que nos const……続きを見る

La literatura de Juan José Saer piensa el horror bajo las formas de una imagen escrita con insistencia. Este es el punto de partida del libro, desde allí Walker configura una lectura minuciosa de al……続きを見る

Explores the role of travel and translation in Brazilian literature and culture from the 1870s to the present. In Creative Transformations, Krista Brune brings together Brazilian fiction, film, jour……続きを見る

The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures retraces the “nature of hatred” and the “hatred of nature” from the earliest traditions of Western literature including Biblical t……続きを見る

A proposta deste volume, Literatura afro-brasileira: 100 autores do século XVIII ao XXI é disponibilizar a professores e alunos dos diversos níveis de ensino dados biográficos e informações sobre a ……続きを見る

Professores de Ensino Fundamental e Ensino Médio de todo o território nacional, sobretudo os de Literatura, História e Artes, bem como todos os pesquisadores, profissionais e cidadãos que buscam a i……続きを見る

Estamos ante al primer estudio realizado hasta la fecha en el que se aborda con voluntad panorámica la historia de la ciencia ficción latinoamericana del ámbito hispánico, desde sus orígenes en el s……続きを見る

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Caribbean has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every po……続きを見る

What are the main contributions of Hispanic cultural products and practices today? This book is a collection of essays on new critical trends in Hispanic Caribbean thinking. It offers an update on t……続きを見る

This is the first English-language book to provide a critical panorama of the last twenty years of Peruvian cinema. Through analysis of the nation’s diverse modes of filmmaking, it offers an insight……続きを見る

The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. As a Francophone nation, Haiti is se……続きを見る

Edwidge Danticat's prolific body of work has established her as one of the most important voices in 21st-century literary culture. Across such novels as Breath, Eyes, Memory, Farming the Bones and s……続きを見る

'Membering Austin Clarke reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like. Despite being ……続きを見る

Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature, explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities, or Latinidades, from 1835 to the pr……続きを見る

In A Regarded Self Kaiama L. Glover champions unruly female protagonists who adamantly refuse the constraints of coercive communities. Reading novels by Marie Chauvet, Maryse Condé, René Depestre, M……続きを見る

Quando há várias nações, antigamente metrópole e colônias, usando a mesma língua, outros fatores devem ser usados para definir quais obras pertencem a uma nação. Além disso, é importante caracteriza……続きを見る

El libro compara las poéticas de Borges y Marechal a partir de sus apropiaciones y polémicas con el nacionalismo. La investigación surgió de una inquietud: ¿por qué Borges abandona tan abruptamente ……続きを見る

This edited collection brings together the work of scholars in the field of Caribbean literary and linguistic study. Its genesis was the University of the West Indies 2011 commemorative conference i……続きを見る

The Republic of Ireland left the British Commonwealth in 1949. It was traditionally overlooked by developing trends of Commonwealth literary studies from the 1960s, which tended to examine the cultu……続きを見る

This interdisciplinary study focuses on recent migrant literature by five outstanding authors from the anglophone, francophone and hispanophone Caribbean: Maryse Condé, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz,……続きを見る

Bite Yu Finga! takes culinary explorers far beyond the restrictive parameters of western European–derived fine dining. This engaging ethnography traces the path of national cuisine formation in the ……続きを見る

When V.S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott published their first literary efforts there was no such thing as a Caribbean literary tradition. By the end of the twentieth century their work……続きを見る

Paulette Ramsay’s study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to undermine and overturn claims of mestizaje or Mexican ho……続きを見る

Citizenship Under Pressure: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture is the first book-length study of the interaction of culture, politics and society in Jamaica’s formative postcolonial moment……続きを見る

Rihanna is arguably the most commercially successful Caribbean artist in history. She is Barbadian and has been unwavering in publicly articulating her national and regional belonging. Still, there ……続きを見る

Roy A.K. Heath (1926–2008) was born in British Guiana (now Guyana). He fled a stultifying colony in 1950 and headed to the United Kingdom where he became a teacher by profession, a lawyer by trainin……続きを見る

Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces analyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid 2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by ……続きを見る

ArteletrA analyzes the Sixties in Latin America in order to revisit the core claim of literary and cultural studies to political relevancy in the contemporary world: the task of making visible the i……続きを見る

Belonging Beyond Borders maps the evolution of cosmopolitanism in Spanish American narrative literature through a generational lens. Drawing on a new theoretical framework that blends intellectual s……続きを見る

Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition. Drawing on historical and cultural approaches to race relations, Identities in Flux examines iconic Afr……続きを見る