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  • Janet

    My Grandmother's Stories

    by Keith Brower ...
    About Janet: My Grandmother's Stories by Keith BrowerAn engaging recollection of one woman's journey from Quebec to rural Alberta post WWI as told by Janet's own captivated grandson--the author and artist, Keith Brower.What Others Have Said About Janet: My Grandmother's Stories"Keith Brower has captured the fascinating story of his maternal grandmother's migration from the English speaking eastern ... Read more

    $5.89 USD

  • Jorge Amado

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Earl Fitz, Keith Brower, Enrique Martinez-Vidal ...
    Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil, this volume provides an introduction and chronology to Amado's life, followed by a comprehensive survey of his major works by some of the world's leading ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    A Journey Through Chile

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    Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. Eloquent, astute, nimble with history and deftly amusing, Travels in a ... Read more

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  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis;Gregory Rabassa;Enylton de Sa Rego;Gilberto Pinheiro Passos ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man" writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. But while he may be dead he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound The ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges

    Edited by Edwin Williamson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century and the most influential author in the Spanish language of modern times. He had a seminal influence on Latin American literature and a lasting impact on literary fiction in many other languages. However, Borges has been accessible in English only through a number of anthologies drawn mainly from his work of the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Searching for Mr. Chin

    Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature

    by Anne-Marie Lee-Loy ...
    What do twentieth-century fictional images of the Chinese reveal about the construction of nationhood in the former West Indian colonies? In her groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Searching for Mr. Chin, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy seeks to map and understand a cultural process of identity formation: “Chineseness” in the West Indies.Reading behind the stereotypical image of the Chinese in the West ... Read more

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  • Coming to Our Senses

    Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture

    by Dierdra Reber ...
    Coming to Our Senses positions affect, or feeling, as our new cultural compass, ordering the parameters and possibilities of what can be known. From Facebook "likes" to Coca-Cola "loves," from "emotional intelligence" in business to "emotional contagion" in social media, affect has displaced reason as the primary catalyst of global culture.Through examples of feeling in the books, film, music, ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Mexican Women Writers

    Five Voices

    by Gabriella de Beer ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Mexican women writers moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and 1980s are Maria Luisa Puga, Silvia Molina, Brianda Domecq, Carmen Boullosa, and Angeles Mastretta. Sharing a range of affinities while maintaining distinctive voices and outlooks, these are the women whom Gabriella de Beer has chosen to profile in ... Read more

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  • Women in Contemporary Latin American Novels

    Psychoanalysis and Gendered Violence

    Edited by Beatriz L. Botero ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the relationship between psychoanalysis, literary criticism and contemporary literature. Focusing on Latin America, and using examples from Brazilian, Colombian, Chilean, Puerto Rican, and Mexican literature, it provides an important account of why gendered violence occurs and how it is portrayed. In the novels discussed, the protagonists express similar fears, passions and ... Read more

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  • Staging Creolization

    Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean

    by Emily Sahakian ...
    Series series New World Studies
    In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that premiered in the French Caribbean or in France in the 1980s and 1990s and soon thereafter traveled to the United States. Sahakian argues that these late-twentieth-century plays by French Caribbean women writers dramatize and enact creolization—the process of ... Read more

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  • The Learned Ones

    Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico

    by Kelly S. McDonough ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    They were the healers, teachers, and writers, the “wise ones” of Nahuatl-speaking cultures in Mexico, remembered in painted codices and early colonial manuscripts of Mesoamerica as the guardians of knowledge. Yet they very often seem bound to an unrecoverable past, as stereotypes prevent some from linking the words “indigenous” and “intellectual” together.Not so, according to author Kelly S. ... Read more

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  • Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature

    Remitting the Text

    by Kezia Page ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural study responds to the general trend in migration discourse that presents the Caribbean experience as unidirectional and uniform across the geographical spaces of home and diaspora. She argues that ... Read more

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