著者:Ilan Stavans
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年01月05日
This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research……続きを見る
This book on the role of written and iconographic communication in the Atlantic World combines a broad outlook, geographically and chronologically, with the precise treatment of specific evidence ex……続きを見る
Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims retraces the steps of five intrepid “lady travelers” who ventured into the geography of the New WorldーMexico, the ……続きを見る
著者:Brendan Lanctot
出版社: University Press Copublishing Division
発売日: 2013年12月12日
Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines how various cultural forms promoted competing political projects in Argentina during the decades following independence from Spain. This turbulent period h……続きを見る
著者:Leila Gómez
出版社: University Press Copublishing Division
発売日: 2011年11月25日
Darwinism in Argentina: Major Texts (1845-1909) brings together essays, letters, short-stories, and public lectures by travelers, scientists, writers, and politicians about Darwin and the theory of ……続きを見る
著者:Earl E. Fitz
出版社: Bucknell University Press
発売日: 2014年11月19日
This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that Machado had a particular interest in female characterizati……続きを見る
A study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers
Caribbean L……続きを見る
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839–1908). A leading ……続きを見る
Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope is a critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman. It is the first book about the ……続きを見る
Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared c……続きを見る
著者:Angel Rama
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2012年05月29日
Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. O……続きを見る
In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde
Writing for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A compilatio……続きを見る
The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the soucouy……続きを見る
著者:Scott M. DeVries
出版社: Bucknell University Press
発売日: 2013年09月05日
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region’s literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth c……続きを見る
著者:Scott Weintraub
出版社: Bucknell University Press
発売日: 2014年12月11日
Juan Luis Martínez’s Philosophical Poetics is the first English-language monograph on this Chilean visual artist and poet (1942–1993). It has two principal aims: first, to introduce Martínez’s poetr……続きを見る
Violence in Caribbean Literature: Stories of Stones and Blood, this book looks at the scene of the throwing of a stone found in five novels, and uses it as a starting point to an examination of the ……続きを見る
This study demonstrates the ways that Latina authors contest how power and space exploit women while simultaneously subverting the Nation-State through reimagining a counter-space where new definiti……続きを見る
Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. From a place of existential exile at the turn of the twentieth century to a symboli……続きを見る
著者:Jason Cortés
出版社: Bucknell University Press
発売日: 2014年12月18日
Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous oneーa fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances. Because of its opacity and instability, masculinity, like……続きを見る
著者:M. Ian Adams
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年12月15日
As a philosophical and social concept, alienation covers a broad range of mental states, both normal and abnormal. Correspondingly, a wide range of literary forms has been employed to deal with this……続きを見る
Imagine making poems the way an architect designs buildings or an engineer builds bridges. Such was the ambition of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Though a great admirer of the thing-rich poetries of Fra……続きを見る
“Believe me: the benefits of blindness have been greatly exaggerated. If I could see, I would never leave the house, I’d stay indoors reading the many books that surround me.”
ーJorge Luis Borges
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著者:Jason Weiss
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2014年01月02日
Because of political, cultural, or economic difficulties in their homelands, Latin American writers have often sought refuge abroad. Their independent searches for a haven in which to write often en……続きを見る
Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are c……続きを見る
In this collection, eight of Craig's most representative articles have been chosen to demonstrate his understanding of the language situation in the English-official Caribbean and the Breadth of his……続きを見る
The Terror and the Time contributes to the ongoing project of mapping the myriad ways in which contemporary individual and social scenarios and suffering are rooted in unresolved traumas bequeathed ……続きを見る
A Poetics of Performance offers fresh readings of fictions by post-1950s writers Earl Lovelace, Merle Collins, Marie-Elena John, Marlon James and Colin Channer alongside calypso, reggae and differen……続きを見る
著者:Ana Elena Puga
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2008年05月05日
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kind……続きを見る
著者:Shona N. Jackson
出版社: University of Minnesota Press
発売日: 2012年10月25日
During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants,……続きを見る
One hundred years after his birth, Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is considered one of the most important thinkers of Mexican identity, one of the most influential Mexican poets, and one of the main rep……続きを見る