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The Politics of Literary Prestige provides the first comprehensive study of prizes for Spanish American literature. Covering state-sponsored and publisher-run prizes including the Biblioteca Breve P……続きを見る

This volume explores how Colombian novelists, artists, performers, activists, musicians, and others seek to enactーto perform, to stage, to representーhuman rights situations that are otherwise enac……続きを見る

Mas que una mirada literaria sobre la obra de Pablo Neruda, este libro del critico e investigador Jaime Concha analiza la produccion del Premio Nobel en funcion de sus relaciones con el proceso hist……続きを見る

A series of conversations held at Princeton University between the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and Rubén Gallo. Princeton University, 2015. For one semester, Mario Vargas Llosa taught a course……続きを見る

In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J. Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican text and music, how that violence repeats itself in both art and in the act……続きを見る

Este livro propõe um novo modo de compreender a história literária no século XIX e a escrita literária de Machado de Assis. Lúcia Granja analisa a Poética da escrita jornalística em Machado de Assis……続きを見る

Challenging the distinctions between “old” and “new” media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor of inscribed forms, The Maya Art of Speaking Writing draws from Maya concepts of t……続きを見る

Inspired by Édouard Glissant’s and Marta Aponte Alsina’s critical-creative work, this book explores how Puerto Rico’s affective archive of Caribbean relations, from the nineteenth century through th……続きを見る

Cayman was known as "The Islands that time forgot". However, Bob Soto woke it up when he started the world's first scuba diving company in 1957. He brought it to great success with his talent for ma……続きを見る

This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constit……続きを見る

The polemics Pablo Neruda was involved in from the 1930s on are legendary, but not even the ferocity of those attacks would lead one to believe that today, a half a century after his death, he would……続きを見る

Esta segunda edição de Crítica em Tempos de Violência foi revista pelo autor com base nas novas leituras sobre o tema que realizou. Jaime Ginzburg se propõe contribuir com a narrativa de uma históri……続きを見る

En 1955, apareció póstumamente, bajo el cuidado editorial de Raúl Porras Barrenechea, probablemente el libro de José de la Riva-Agüero (Lima, 1885-1944) más querido por sus lectores: Paisajes peruan……続きを見る

Desde hace años, Grace Prada viene dedicando gran parte de su labor intelectual a investigar, comentar y divulgar el pensamiento de las mujeres en el país. En su antología La feminización de la pala……続きを見る

Una colección de ensayos escogidos del crítico John Beverley en el campo del Latinoamericanismo literario, atento a los conexiones entre literatura, hegemonía, y conflicto social. Abarca el periodo ……続きを見る

Addressing the question of why many Latin American fiction authors are writing about Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust now, this book charts the evolution of Latin American literary pro……続きを見る

La confrontación permanente de horizontes culturales muy diversos se extiende hacia las regiones geográficas de América Latina que, en el pasado, solían ubicarse en el Sur, sugiriendo una posición s……続きを見る

Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegories constructed around this figure of the undead, probing its cultural and hist……続きを見る

Finalist, Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History Society Shortlisted, 2023 Historical Nonfiction Legacy Award, Hurston / Wright Foundation One o……続きを見る

As Contradictory Indianness shows, a postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics that has from its inception privileged inclusivity, interraciality, and resistance against Old World colonial orders requires t……続きを見る

Winner of a 2023 Edited Collection Award from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Contributions by Cécile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner, Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel……続きを見る

"O renascimento do autor" é um estudo a respeito do moderno conceito de autoria. Seus ensaios, escritos com clareza e entremeados por uma tese unificadora que pouco a pouco vai se evidenciando, inci……続きを見る

The Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the Final Judgment: the Apocalypse is central to Christianity and has evolved throughout Christianity’s long history. Thus, when ecclesiast……続きを見る

Comparative Postcolonialism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul and Toni Morrison: Fragmented Identities begins with an overview of its theoretical framework, highlighting the intersectional relationship b……続きを見る

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Formsbrings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume. Highligh……続きを見る

El relato policial surge en el siglo XIX, estrechamente vinculado con los cambios que trae la modernidad, como la ajetreada vida en las grandes ciudades y la exaltación del raciocinio lógico-deducti……続きを見る

Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa. El retrato de Dorian Gray por Oscar Wilde Mujercitas por……続きを見る

A través de la revisión de un amplio número de libros impresos durante los siglos XVI-XVIII a ambos lados del Atlántico se estudia la relación entre los paratextos y los textos literarios de los aut……続きを見る

How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean How did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthe……続きを見る

This study is an exploration of US Cuban theatrical performances written and staged primarily between 1980 and 2000. Lillian Manzor analyzes early plays by Magali Alabau, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Mar……続きを見る