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  • A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism

    Machado de Assis

    by Roberto Schwarz, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Translated by John Gledson ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation
    A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839–1908). A leading Brazilian theorist and author of the highly influential notion of “misplaced ideas,” Schwarz focuses his literary and cultural analysis on Machado’s The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, which was ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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    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

    $23.09 USD

  • Learn Spanish For Kids: Spanish for Children (Body Parts) | Children's Foreign Language Learning Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    It’s fun to learn a second language but it’s even more engaging when the right materials are used! This educational book will teach your child the basics of Spanish as a second language. There will be pictures with words and example sentences too, so it’s a complete learning experience. Secure a copy of this book today! ... Read more

    $3.99 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

  • 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

  • Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel

    by Paul R. McAleer ...
    An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the utopian impulse. This book analyses these functions of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Fernando Vallejo and Jaime Bayly. ... Read more

    $17.99 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

  • 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

  • The Sound of Culture

    Diaspora and Black Technopoetics

    by Louis Chude-Sokei ...
    The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • One-Way Tickets

    Writers and the Culture of Exile

    by Alicia Borinsky ...
    In One-Way Tickets, Borinsky offers up a splendid tour across 20th-century literatures, providing a literary travelogue to writers and artists in exile. She describes their challenges in adjusting to new homelands, issues of identity and language, and the brilliant works produced under the discomforts and stresses of belonging nowhere.Speaking with the authority of first-hand experience, Borinsky ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing

    Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics

    Edited by Estrella Cibreiro, Francisca López ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and purposeful manner. The contributors analyze texts pertaining to all literary genres, examining a myriad of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Approaches to Latin American Children’s Literature

    by Ann González ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    In this volume González explores how the effects of a traumatic colonial experience are (re)presented to Latin American children today, almost two centuries after the dismantling of colonialism proper. Central to this study is the argument that the historical constraints of colonialism, neocolonialism, and postcolonialism have generated certain repeating themes and literary strategies in children ... Read more

    $63.99 USD