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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dan russek”
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  • Politics of Children in Latin American Cinema

    by Omar Rodriguez, Tunico Amancio, Ramiro Armas Austria, Norman Cheadle, Maria Livia do Nascimento, Rafaela Fiore Urizar, Barbara Fraser-Valencia, Marcela García, Diana Pifano, Giovanna Pollarolo0, Dan Russek1, Argelia González Hurtado2, María Soledad Paz-MacKay3 ...
    Politics of Children in Latin American Cinema explores the trend of portraying children and adolescents in a subjective, adult-constructed point of view in Latin American cinema. This trend, in which the filmmakers are able to express their own anxieties while subordinating the child’s, draws new political implications to these constructions of children’s subjective character. Chapters in this ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Textual Exposures

    Photography in Twentieth Century Latin American Narrative Fiction

    by Dan Russek ...
    Series Book 11 - Latin American and Caribbean Studies
    Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations, and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated in fictional form the conventions and assumptions of this medium. While the book is essentially a study of literary ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Literature Class, Berkeley 1980

    by Julio Cortázar ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cortázar’s own writing career as they are about ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Hemispheric Imaginations

    North American Fictions of Latin America

    by Helmbrecht Breinig ...
    What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this construction and added layers of complexity that subvert any approach based on stereotypes? ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States

    Interviews with Contemporary Writers

    by Juanita Heredia ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of interviews demonstrates that U.S. Latinas/os of South American background have contributed pioneering work to U.S. Latina/o literature and culture in the twenty-first century. In conversation with twelve significant authors of South American descent in the United States, Juanita Heredia reveals that, through their transnational experiences, they have developed multicultural ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Modernism and Latin America

    Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange

    by Patricia Novillo-Corvalán ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century. Drawing on comparative, historical, and postcolonial reading strategies (including archival research), it seeks to reenergize the study of modernism by putting the spotlight on the cultural networks and aesthetic dialogues that developed between European ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Mobility and Modernity

    Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination

    by Robert D. Aguirre ...
    Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination rewrites the history of the Panama Canal, assessing for the first time the literary culture of the preceding decades. In this period, U.S. and British writers and visual artists developed sophisticated languages of mobility, time, and speed to cast the isthmus as an in-between place, a point of connection to more ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Roberto Bolaño as World Literature

    Edited by Professor Nicholas Birns, Professor Juan E. De Castro ...
    Series series Literatures as World Literature
    Roberto Bolaño as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of international interest, such as the rise of rightwing and neofascist movements during the last decades of the 20th century. But this anthology also shows how Roberto Bolaño's participation in ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Cultural Exchanges between Brazil and France

    Edited by Regina R. Félix, Scott D. Juall ...
    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years. The Brazilian je ne sais quoi has captivated the French from their first encounter, and the ingenuity à francesa of French artistic and scholarly movements has intrigued Brazilians in kind. Ongoing Brazil-France interactions have resulted in some of the richest cultural exchanges ... Read more

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  • Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil

    Edited by Vinicius Mariano De Carvalho, Nicola Gavioli ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
    When Brazil was honored at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, the Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato opened the event with a provocative speech claiming that literature, through its pervasive depiction and discussion of ‘otherness,’ has the potential to provoke ethical transformation. This book uses Ruffato’s speech as a starting point for the discussion of contemporary Brazilian literature that stands ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Genealogy of the Tragic

    Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy

    by Joshua Billings ...
    Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama? In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by tracing the emergence of the modern theory of the tragic, which was first developed around 1800 by thinkers associated with German Idealism. The book ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Beyond Tordesillas

    New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies

    Edited by Robert Patrick Newcomb, Richard A. Gordon ...
    Series series Transoceanic Series
    Beyond Tordesillas: New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies is the first volume of its kind to be published in English. Bringing together young and established scholars, it seeks to consolidate the vital work being done on the connections between the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds on both sides of the Atlantic. The volume builds from an understanding that Iberian and Latin ... Read more

    $25.19 USD