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  • Beyond Tordesillas

    New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies

    Edited by Robert Patrick Newcomb, Richard A. Gordon ...
    Series series Transoceanic Series
    Beyond Tordesillas: New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies is the first volume of its kind to be published in English. Bringing together young and established scholars, it seeks to consolidate the vital work being done on the connections between the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds on both sides of the Atlantic. The volume builds from an understanding that Iberian and Latin ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Iberianism and Crisis

    Spain and Portugal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

    by Robert Patrick Newcomb ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    "Iberianism" refers to a minority intellectual current which emerged in Spain and Portugal during the mid-nineteenth century and developed in step with the Iberian Peninsula’s successive crises. Iberianism sought to upend the peninsula’s political and intellectual status quo by advocating closer ties between the two peninsular kingdoms, and more equitable relations between the Spanish state’s ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Nossa and Nuestra América

    Inter-American Dialogues

    by Robert Patrick Newcomb ...
    Series Book 52 - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    Is Brazil part of Latin America, or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues demonstrates, this question has been debated by Brazilian and Spanish American intellectuals alike since the early nineteenth century, though it has received limited scholarly attention and its answer is less obvious than you might think. This book charts Brazil's evolving and often ... Read more

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    $13.69 USD

  • Interiors and Narrative

    The Spatial Poetics of Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, and Leopoldo Alas

    by Estela Vieira ...
    Interiors and Narrative shows how crucial interiors are for our understanding of the nature of narrative. A growing cultural fascination with interior dwelling so prevalent in the late nineteenth century parallels an intensification of the rhetorical function interior architecture plays in the development of fiction. The existential dimension of dwelling becomes so intimately tied to the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Neoliberal Bonds

    Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature

    by Fernando A. Blanco ...
    Series series Transoceanic Series
    Fernando A. Blanco’s Neoliberal Bonds: Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature analyzes the sociocultural processes that have reshaped subjectivities in post-Pinochet Chile. By creatively exploring the intersections among memory, gender, post-trauma, sociology, psychoanalysis, and neoliberalism, Neoliberal Bonds draws on Lacan’s notion of perversion to critique the subjective fantasies that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Loss of El Dorado

    A Colonial History

    by V. S. Naipaul ...
    In this masterpiece about Trinidad, the Nobel Prize-winning author has “given us a lesson in history [and] shown us how it is best written” (The New York Times).The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul—himself a native of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • After Translation

    The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic

    by Ignacio Infante ...
    Translation—from both a theoretical and a practical point of view—articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean.After Translation examines from a transnational perspective the various ways in which translation facilitates ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Masters of War

    Latin America and U.S. Agression From the Cuban Revolution Through the Clinton Years

    by Clara Nieto ...
    Translated by Chris Brandt ...
    In Masters of War, Clara Nieto adeptly presents the parallel histories of the countries of Latin America, histories that are intertwined, each reflecting the United States’ "coherent policy of intervention" set into motion by the Monroe Doctrine. As the value of this continued policy comes increasingly into question, Nieto argues for the need to evaluate the alarming precedent set in Latin America ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Cervantes's Don Quixote

    Edited by James A. Parr, Lisa Vollendorf ...
    Series Book 134 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Cervantes'sDon Quixote highlights dramatic changes in pedagogy and scholarship in the last thirty years: today, critics and teachers acknowledge that subject position, cultural identity, and political motivations afford multiple perspectives on the novel, and they examine both literary and sociohistorical contextualization with fresh eyes.Part 1, ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864–70

    Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay & Argentina

    by Gabriele Esposito ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    The War of the Triple Alliance is the largest single conflict in the history of South America.Drawing Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay into conflict the war was characterized by extraordinarily high casualty rates, and was to shape the future of an entire continent – depopulating Paraguay and establishing Brazil as the predominant military power.Despite the importance of the war, little ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Colonialism

    by Norrie Macqueen ...
    Series series Short Histories of Big Ideas
    Europe’s rapacious hunger for other people’s lands is one of the key shaping forces of our contemporary world. Everything is touched by our colonial past, from the way we see the world to the food we eat. Our contemporary preoccupations and ills – from globalization to humanitarian intervention to international terrorism – have colonialism somewhere in their genetic make-up.The character and ... Read more

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