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“maarten van delden”

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  • Reality in Movement

    Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public Intellectual

    by Maarten van Delden ...
    In the last couple of decades there has been a surge of interest in Octavio Paz's life and work, and a number of important books have been published on Paz. However, most of these books are of a biographical nature, or they examine Paz's role in the various intellectual initiatives he headed in Mexico, specifically the journals he founded.Reality in Movement looks at a wide range of topics of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Uncivil Wars

    Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory

    by Sandra Messinger Cypess ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender.While Paz’s privileged, prize ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • María Zambrano

    A Life of Poetic Reason and Political Commitment

    by Beatriz Caballero Rodríguez ...
    Series Book 1 - Iberian and Latin American Studies
    María Zambrano is widely regarded as one of the most original Spanish thinkers of the twentieth century. Her biggest contribution to intellectual history is, without doubt, her poetic reason and unique attempt to overcome the limiting coordinates of the framework of rationality established by the Enlightenment. Having spent forty-five years in exile, the relevance of this Spanish Republican ... Read more

    $40.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

    by Sabine Köllmann ...
    This companion to the work of Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa traces his fictional and non-fictional writing throughout the different phases of a career spanning more than fifty years. His lifelong dedication to literature goes hand in hand with his commitment as a public intellectual, a role that frequently involves him in controversy. Against the backdrop of Vargas Llosa's political ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sandino's Nation

    Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez Writing Nicaragua, 1940-2012

    by Stephen Henighan ...
    Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez are two of the most influential Latin American intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Addressing Nicaragua's struggle for self-definition from divergent ethnic, religious, generational, political, and class backgrounds, they constructed distinct yet compatible visions of national history, anchored in a reappraisal of the early ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Hispanic Immigrant Literature

    El Sueño del Retorno

    by Nicolás Kanellos ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in the United States. Immigrant literature uses predominantly the language of the homeland; it serves a ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones

    Illuminating Gender and Nation

    by Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela ...
    Series series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
    Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps the most discussed aspect of Palma’s work – engaging with new critical thinking on historicism and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Political Poetry in the Wake of the Second Spanish Republic

    Rafael Alberti, Pablo Neruda, and Nicolás Guillén

    by Grant D. Moss ...
    From notions of art for art’s sake to committed poetry, it may seem that poets cannot achieve reconciliation between the politics and poetry. However, among committed Communist poets of the 20th century of the Spanish-speaking world, three poets stand out as examples of a search to bring together their political and their poetic commitments: Rafael Alberti, Nicolás Guillén, and Pablo Neruda. ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • A History of Argentine Literature

    Edited by Alejandra Laera, Mónica Szurmuk ...
    Argentine Literature continues to figure prominently in academic programs in the English-speaking world, and it has an increasing presence in English translation in international prizes and trade journals. A History of Argentine Literature proposes a major reimagining of Argentine literature attentive to production in indigenous and migration languages and to current debates in Literary Studies. ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • We Are All Chile

    Representations of Difference in Contemporary Chilean Historical Fiction

    by Katherine Karr-Cornejo ...
    Winner of the 2026 Victoria Urbano Award in the category of Critical MonographA study of the relationship between literature and the current conditions of national life, We Are All Chile explores how artistic expression reflects lived experience. The book travels through figures, symbols, and events in Chilean history from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as represented through ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

    by Maryellen Bieder, Roberta Johnson ...
    Series series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
    The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) pitted conservative forces including the army, the Church, the Falange (fascist party), landowners, and industrial capitalists against the Republic, installed in 1931 and supported by intellectuals, the petite bourgeoisie, many campesinos (farm laborers), and the urban proletariat. Provoking heated passions on both sides, the Civil War soon became an international ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Colombian Political Novel 1951–1987

    A Critical Contribution

    by Alvaro Quiroga-Cifuentes ...
    Series Book 71 - Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas
    This book explores the environment and cultural context of Colombian political novels published between 1951 and 1987. Challenging the label of «novelas de la violencia», the author analyses them as products of their own historical time and takes into account their broader implications, such as their representation of the society they narrate. These novels are shown to be the product of political ... Read more

    $76.09 USD