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  • The Girl in the Photograph

    by Lygia Fagundes Telles ...
    Translated by Margaret A. Neves ...
    Series series Brazilian Literature
    Complex and hauntingly beautiful, Lygia Fagundes Telles's most acclaimed novel is a journey into the inner lives of three young women, each revealing her secrets and loves, each awaiting a destiny tied to the colorful and violent world of modern Brazil. Sensual and wealthy Lorena dreams of a tryst with a married man. Unhappy Lia burns with a frantic desire to free her imprisoned fiancé. Glamorous ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

    The Twentieth Century

    by Earl E. Fitz ...
    Series series New World Studies
    Charting the twentieth-century course of the literature of the AmericasThe second volume of Earl E. Fitz’s magisterial survey of the field, The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil: The Twentieth Century analyzes Spanish- and Portuguese-language writing throughout South and Central America as well as in the United States and Canada, where it expanded and flourished over the course of the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Literature in the Americas

    A Timeline and Commentary

    by Earl E. Fitz ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
    This book offers a systematic and comparative history of the evolution of literature in the Americas, from the beginning to the present day. It begins with an introduction that assesses the development of the field and then proceeds to a chapter on the literature of Pre-Columbian and indigenous America. It then moves forward chronologically, from the arrival of the Europeans (beginning in 1492) to ... Read more

    $305.99 USD

  • Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas

    Edited by Vanessa K. Valdés, Earl E. Fitz ...
    Series series SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
    Examines the reception of Brazil's most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.Considered a genius in his own lifetime, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is Brazil's most canonized writer. Yet, he remains a contested and even enigmatic figure to readers in Brazil and abroad, his relative silence on slavery leaving ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

    From Their Origins through the Nineteenth Century

    by Earl E. Fitz ...
    Series series New World Studies
    In this survey of Central and South American literature, Earl E. Fitz provides the first book in English to analyze the Portuguese- and Spanish-language American canons in conjunction, uncovering valuable insights about both. Fitz works by comparisons and contrasts: the political and cultural situation at the end of the fifteenth century in Spain and Portugal; the indigenous American cultures ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory

    Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels

    by Earl E. Fitz ...
    Series series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
    This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature’s greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist poetry, Machado creates, between 1880 and 1908, a “new narrative,” one that will presage the groundbreaking theories of Swiss linguist ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector

    The Différance of Desire

    by Earl E. Fitz ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Driven by an unfulfilled desire for the unattainable, ultimately indefinable Other, the protagonists of the novels and stories of acclaimed Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector exemplify and humanize many of the issues central to poststructuralist thought, from the nature of language, truth, and meaning to the unstable relationships between language, being, and reality. In this book, Earl Fitz ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Machado de Assis and Female Characterization

    The Novels

    by Earl E. Fitz ...
    Series series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
    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 characterization and that his fictional women became increasingly sophisticated and complex as he matured and developed as a writer and social commentator. This book argues that Machado developed, especially after ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Lima Barreto

    New Critical Perspectives

    by Paulo da-Luz-Moreira, Robert Anderson, Talia Gúzman-González, Luiz Fernando Valente, Vivaldo A. Santos, Earl E. Fitz, Renata R. M. Wasserman, Nelson H. Vieira, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Marc A. Hertzman, Mário Higa, Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira ...
    This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis of this writer’s work in English. It is an intellectually diverse collection of essays that ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Inter-American Literary History

    Six Critical Periods

    by Earl E. Fitz ...
    Series Book 11 - Interamericana
    Inter-American literary study is an exciting and fast-growing area of comparative scholarship. The Americas are tied together by a common historical heritage and by a history of social, political, economic, and cultural interaction.As a contribution to this field, this book brings together the literatures and literary histories of English and French Canada, the United States, Spanish America, the ... Read more

    $116.79 USD

  • Clarice Lispector

    From Brazil to the World

    by Earl E. Fitz ...
    Series series Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such a celebrity in the world literature arena. This book also shows why Lispector is not one writer, as many think, but many writers. By offering close readings of her novels, stories, and nonfiction pieces, Earl E. Fitz shows the diverse sides ... Read more

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  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Read more

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