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Showing 1 - 12 of 16 results for “ignacio lopez calvo”
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  • Los Angeles

    A Literary History

    Edited by Michael Docherty, Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    No city occupies as many paradoxical positions in the popular imagination as Los Angeles. It is the new frontier and the end of the trail; it is American Eden and Babylon by the Pacific; it is by turns celebrated and condemned for its diversity; it is the city of perpetual renewal and the city of imminent apocalypse. This collection reveals LA in all its contradictions by documenting a literary ... Read more

    $131.99 USD

  • Mapping Diversity in Latin America

    Race and Ethnicity from Colonial Times to the Present

    by Bárbara I. Abadía-Rexach, Gonzalo Aguiar Malosetti, Patricia Arroyo Calderón, Amber Brian, Ariel Camejo, Marta Elena Casaús Arzú, Mónica Díaz, Christian Elguera, Tracy Devine Guzmán, Ruth Hill, Ariana Huberman, Stephanie Kirk, Agustín Laó-Montes, Ignacio López-Calvo, Mariselle Meléndez, Bahia M. Munem, Iván Fernando Rodrigo-Mendizábal, Carlos Alberto Valderrama Rentería, Marcel Velázquez Castro, Jorge Daniel Vásquez ...
    Mapping Diversity in Latin America offers ample critical coverage of recent approaches to the historical study of race and ethnicity in Latin America since the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese colonizers to the present. Bringing together the work of leading scholars, this volume presents readers with a thorough and updated examination of the formation and evolution of ideas surrounding race and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Pablo Neruda in Context

    Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Pablo Neruda in Context includes forty-two essays by some of the main experts on Pablo Neruda's oeuvre that focus on how his places of residence and travel (Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France, Asia), the landmark event of the Cold War, as well as literary and political influences affected his poetic evolution. It also considers the other genres of his writing, including memoirs, letters, translation ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Dragons in the Land of the Condor

    Writing Tusán in Peru

    by Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in the Land of the Condor Ignacio López-Calvo studies the influence of a Chinese ethnic background in the writing of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sino-Peruvian authors.While authors like Siu Kam Wen and Julia Wong often rely on their Chinese cultural heritage for inspiration, many others, like Pedro Zulen, ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • The Japanese Empire and Latin America

    by Eiichiro Azuma, Andre Kobayashi Deckrow, Toake Endoh, Facundo Garasino, Elijah J. Greenstein, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, Ayumi Takenaka, Hiromi Mizuno, Seth Jacobowitz, Yoshitaka HIbi ...
    The Japanese Empire and Latin America provides a comprehensive analysis of the complicated relationship between Japanese migration and capital exportation to Latin America and the rise and fall of the empire in the Asia-Pacific region. It explains how Japan’s presence influenced the cultures and societies of Latin American countries and also explores the role of Latin America in the evolution of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel

    Edited by Juan E. De Castro, Ignacio Lòpez-Calvo ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks of Literature
    The Latin American novel burst onto the international literary scene with the Boom era--led by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa--and has influenced writers throughout the world ever since. García Márquez and Vargas Llosa each received the Nobel Prize in literature, and many of the best-known contemporary novelists are inspired by the region's fiction. ... Read more

    $172.79 USD

  • The Mexican Transpacific

    Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance

    by Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    Series series Critical Mexican Studies
    The Mexican Transpacific considers the influence of a Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the cultural production of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican authors, performers, and visual artists. Despite Japanese Mexicans’ unquestionable influence on Mexico’s history and culture and the historical studies recently published on this Nikkei community, the study of its ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement

    Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo, Marjorie Agosin ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture
    Every American is a descendant of either a Native American, and enslaved person, an immigrant, or a refugee. This book is devoted to the fourth category. The essays in this volume will study the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. This volume is not only ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel García Márquez

    Edited by Gene H. Bell-Villada, Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    From the epic saga of the Buendía family in One Hundred Years of Solitude to the enduring passion of Love in the Time of Cholera to the exploration of tyranny in The Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez has built a literary world that continues to captivate millions of readers across the world. His writings entrance modern audiences with their dreamlike yet trenchant insights into ... Read more

    $154.79 USD

  • A History of Chilean Literature

    Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    This book covers the full range and diversity of Chilean literature from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. By emphasizing transnational, hemispheric, and global approaches to Chilean literature, it reflects the relevance of themes such as neoliberalism, migration and exile, as well as subfields like ethnic studies, and gender and sexuality studies. It showcases the diversity of ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Japanese Brazilian Saudades

    Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production

    by Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    Series series Nikkei in the Americas
    Japanese Brazilian Saudades explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry. Ignacio López-Calvo uses books and films by twentieth-century Nikkei authors as case studies to redefine the ideas of Brazilianness and Japaneseness from both a national and a transnational perspective. The result suggests an alternative ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Written in Exile

    Chilean Fiction From 1973-Present

    by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo ...
    Series series Latin American Studies
    On September 11, 1973, Chile's General Pinochet led a quick and brutal military coup ousting the Allende government. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo argues that the rise of the Pinochet dictatorship and the subsequent imprisonment of any Allende sympathizers shaped Chilean narrative into two structural forms: liberationist narrative--cathartic, journalistic testimonies that provide models for revolutionary ... Read more

    $60.99 USD