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Esta obra reconstruye, a través de cuentos, relatos periodísticos y fábulas, algunos casos de desaparición forzada que se dieron en el municipio de Uribe y otros territorios cercanos en el Meta. En ……続きを見る

A literary guide to one of the most fascinating countries in the world. With its flamboyant style and rich culture, Cuba has provided the inspiration and setting for literature for decades. It has a……続きを見る

Lorena Cuya Gavilano’s Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia is an aesthetic and cultural analysis of how political and economic trends have impacted narratives about……続きを見る

From the Pampas lowlands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to the Altiplano plateau that stretches between Chile and Peru, the plains of Latin America have haunted the literature and culture of the c……続きを見る

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2023 Book Award During the early colonial encounter, children’s books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing th……続きを見る

A partir de un análisis profundo del proceso histórico y el contexto social de los cuales emergió el cuento mexicano, el autor hace el recuento de un proceso evolutivo que va desde los orígenes del ……続きを見る

Negotiating Feminisms examines intergenerational feminism in Chicanx family life. It analyses literary representations of the ways that Chicanas negotiate feminisms in the family across generations,……続きを見る

Joseph Anténor Firmin (1850–1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. He was the first “Black anthropologist” and “Black Egyptologist” to de……続きを見る

A scientist's exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who could not forget. Imagine the astonishment felt by neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga when he found……続きを見る

The Other/Argentina looks at literature, film, and the visual arts to examine the threads of Jewishness that create patterns of meaning within the fabric of Argentine self-representation. A multieth……続きを見る

Exemplary Violence explores the violent colonial history of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela) by examining three seventeenth-century historical accountsーPedro Simón’s N……続きを見る

The world of literature responds to the "spirit of carnival" in ways that are both social and cultural, mythological and archetypal. Literature provides a mirror in which carnival is reflected and r……続きを見る

Octavio Paz: Nobel Prize winner, author of The Labyrinth of Solitude and Sor Juana, or, the Traps of Faith, precursor and pathfinder, a guiding light of the Mexican intelligentsia in the twentieth c……続きを見る

Este libro incluye tres crónicas relevantes de la época colonial, todas relacionadas con la Capitanía General de Guatemala (territorio que hoy incluye a toda Centroamérica). Los textos, adaptados al……続きを見る

O presente volume interdisciplinar reúne 13 contribuições de autores brasileiros e europeus das áreas da filologia, estudos culturais e comunicação que versam sobre os paradigmas da comunicação e da……続きを見る

This study examines the evolution of Cuban literature and culture from its origins in the 19th century to the present. The early sections analyze the relationship between literary production and uni……続きを見る

In Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature, author Jenna Grace Sciuto analyzes literary depictions of sexual policing of the color ……続きを見る

Esta obra expone los fundamentos de la crítica genética para proponer un abordaje particular de los manuscritos y demás materiales pre-redaccionales y redaccionales que comportan un proceso de creac……続きを見る

The first book on pan-Caribbean life writing, Dreams of Archives Unfolded reveals the innovative formal practices used to write about historical absences within contemporary personal narratives. Alt……続きを見る

Este libro se ocupa de la importancia de la literatura para la constitución de las ciencias sociales como práctica y discurso moderno en el Caribe insular hispano. Su propuesta consiste en que la an……続きを見る

La versión de libro electrónico incluye los dos tomos de la versión impresa. 100 años de literatura costarricense de Margarita Rojas y Flora Ovares es una obra fundamental dentro de la historiografí……続きを見る

Esta compilación reúne a cuatro de los más destacados escritores modernistas, como Rubén Darío, José Santos Chocano, José Martí y Enrique Gómez Carrillo. Este libro incluye varias obras poéticas y e……続きを見る

`De Lobato a Bojunga - as reinações renovadas` traça o desenvolvimento da produção de livros para crianças, destacando seus autores considerados mais representativos. 続きを見る

This book studies the role of subterranean spaces in literary works about Mexico City. It analyzes how underground spaces such as the subway, the sewage system, tunnels, crypts, and the subsoil itse……続きを見る

New Strangers in Paradise offers the first in-depth account of the ways in which contemporary American fiction has been shaped by the successive generations of immigrants to reach U.S. shores. Gilbe……続きを見る

Winner of the PEN Translation Prize "Pondering revolutionary Cuba, the Berlin Wall, and the caves of Cappadocia, these essays explore themes of memory, war, movement, and home."ーThe New Yorker "A t……続きを見る

"Son muchos años los que este urbanista y escritor (¿o al revés?) ha dedicado al asunto, en medio de una vasta obra especializada. Sus libros me proponen siempre la misma pregunta, ¿hay algo que no ……続きを見る

Nos ensaios deste livro, Sant'Anna estuda o pedregoso caminho da obra de dois de nossos maiores poetas, Carlos Drummond de Andrade e João Cabral de Melo Neto, partindo da questão da dificuldades da ……続きを見る

Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna recompõe neste livro seu percurso como ensaista, lançando um olhar atualizado sobre a produção crítica, literária e acadêmica do país. Revisita os caminhos que o levaram ……続きを見る

Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration In 1954, Guatemala suffered a coup d’etat, resulting in a decad……続きを見る