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  • Spectral Spain

    Haunted Houses, Silent Spaces and Traumatic Memories in Post-Franco Gothic Fiction

    by Heidi Backes ...
    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    Spectral Spain examines the Gothic haunting motif in post-Franco Spanish literature. With a theoretical framework in memory and trauma studies, and a particular emphasis on the inclusion of women’s voices, this book is the first to provide an in-depth study of spectrality and haunting in the Gothic literature of contemporary Spain. Through close readings of eleven main texts, the author examines ... Read more

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  • Queer Rebels

    Rewriting Literary Traditions in Contemporary Spanish Novels

    by Łukasz Smuga ...
    Translated by Patrycja Poniatowska ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
    Queer Rebels is a study of gay narrative writings published in Spain at the turn of the 20th century. The book scrutinises the ways in which the literary production of contemporary Spanish gay authors – José Luis de Juan, Luis G. Martín, Juan Gil-Albert, Juan Goytisolo, Eduardo Mendicutti, Luis Antonio de Villena and Álvaro Pombo – engages with homophobic and homophile discourses, as well as with ... Read more

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  • Becoming Reinaldo Arenas

    Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution

    by Jorge Olivares ...
    Becoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame. Yet as a political dissident and an openly gay man, Arenas also experienced discrimination and persecution; he produced much of his work amid political controversy and precarious living conditions. In ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture

    Edited by Inés Ordiz, Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays in this volume illuminate the existence of native representations of the Gothic, while also exploring the presence of universal archetypes of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Adolfo Bioy Casares

    Borges, Fiction and Art

    Edited by Karl Posso ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    Best known as Jorge Luis Borges's right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic fiction, are now ripe for reassessment. This volume looks at Bioy's extensive oeuvre which offers many surprising reflections on the twentieth century s cultural, social and political transformations, ... Read more

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  • The Art of Ana Clavel

    Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires

    by JaneElizabeth Lavery ...
    Ana Clavel is a remarkable contemporary Mexican writer whose literary and multimedia oeuvre is marked by its queerness. The queer is evinced in the manner in which she disturbs conceptions of the normal not only by representing outlaw sexualities and dark desires but also by incorporating into her fictive and multimedia worlds that which is at odds with normalcy as evinced in the presence of the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Anti-Literature

    The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina

    by Adam Joseph Shellhorse ...
    Series Book 76 - Illuminations
    Anti-Literature articulates a rethinking of what is meant today by "literature." Examining key Latin American forms of experimental writing from the 1920s to the present, Adam Joseph Shellhorse reveals literature's power as a site for radical reflection and reaction to contemporary political and cultural conditions. His analysis engages the work of writers such as Clarice Lispector, Oswald de ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture

    by Lloyd Davies ...
    Series series Iberian & Latin American Studies
    This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature. It considers various definitions of madness and explores the often contrasting responses, both positive (figural madness as stimulus for literary creativity) and negative (clinical madness representing spiritual confinement and sterility). The concept of national ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Emilia Pardo Bazán

    Edited by Margot Versteeg, Susan Walter ...
    Series Book 147 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    "Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) was the most prolific and influential woman writer of late nineteenth-century Spain," write the editors of this volume in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Contending with the critical literary, cultural, and social issues of the period, Pardo Bazán's novels, novellas, short stories, essays, plays, travel writing, and cookbooks offer ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry

    Edited by Stephen M. Hart ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of Latin American poetry and includes separate chapters on Colonial poetry, Romanticism/modernism, the avant-garde, conversational ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Photopoetics at Tlatelolco

    Afterimages of Mexico, 1968

    by Samuel Steinberg ...
    Series series Border Hispanisms
    In the months leading up to the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, students took to the streets, calling for greater democratization and decrying crackdowns on political resistance by the ruling PRI party. During a mass meeting held at the Plaza of the Three Cultures in the Tlatelolco neighborhood, paramilitary forces opened fire on the gathering. The death toll from the massacre remains a ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Against Borges

    Four Women Writers of his Inner Circles

    by Patricia N. Klingenberg ...
    Series Book 1 - Iberian and Latin American Studies
    The four writers of this study – Norah Lange, Silvina Ocampo, Estela Canto and Silvina Bullrich – are rarely considered together. Each, however, made their literary start within the close-knit circles dominated by Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires in the mid-twentieth century. The title of the book plays with the double meaning of the word ‘against’ – signifying ‘opposed’ or ‘resistant’, but also ... Read more

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