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  • El Libertador:Writings of Simon Bolivar

    Writings of Simón Bolívar

    by Simon Bolivar ...
    Translated by Fred Fornoff ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    General Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolivar became Columbia's first president in 1819. In 1822, he became dictator of Peru. Upper Peru became a separate ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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    by Jorge Luis Borges, André Maurois ...
    The classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century—a true literary sensation—with an introduction by cyber-author William Gibson.The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, ... Read more

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  • Midnight Mass and Other Stories

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis was the finest storyteller of nineteenth-century Latin America. "Midnight Mass and Other Stories" offers a selection of Machado's tales, from the oft-translated and sly erotic title story, a classic of Brazilian literature, to such brief ironic tales, not previously translated into English, as "A Game," "Coimbra the Clerk," and "Sooner the Tarpeian Rock." ... Read more

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  • Modern Latin American Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis. With the Spanish American War came Modernismo, the end of World War I and the Mexican Revolution produced the avant-garde, and the Cuban ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Latino Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Rodrigo Lazo, Jesse Alemán ...
    Series Book 18 - America and the Long 19th Century
    A retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nineteenth centuryWritten by both established and emerging scholars, the essays in The Latino Nineteenth Century engage materials in Spanish and English and genres ranging from the newspaper to the novel, delving into new texts and areas of research as ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Closed Hand

    Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature

    by Rebecca Riger Tsurumi ...
    Series Book 54 - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    In her book, The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature, Rebecca Riger Tsurumi captures the remarkable story behind the changing human landscape in Peru at the end of the nineteenth century when Japanese immigrants established what would become the second largest Japanese community in South America. She analyzes how non-Japanese Peruvian narrators unlock the unspoken ... Read more

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  • Dreams and Realities

    Selected Fiction of Juana Manuela Gorriti

    by Juana Manuela Gorriti, Sergio Waisman ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    One of the most dramatic figures among Latin America's romantic writers and the distinguished woman writer of her century, Juana Manuela Gorriti brings passion and intrigue to the scene of writing. An exile from her native Argentina who sought refuge first in Bolivia and then in Peru, her lifetime of travel and displacement is echoed in her fictions. Her short stories tell of homelessness and ... Read more

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  • Diadem: Selected Poems

    by Marosa di Giorgio ...
    Translated by Adam Giannelli ...
    Marosa di Giorgio has one of the most distinct and recognizable voices in Latin American poetry. Her surreal and fable-like prose poems invite comparison to Franz Kafka, Julio Cortázar, or even contemporary American poets Russell Edson and Charles Simic. But di Giorgio's voice, imagery, and themes—childhood, the Uruguayan countryside, a perception of the sacred—are her own. Previously written off ... Read more

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  • Daring to Write

    Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women

    by Rhina Espaillat, Leonor Suarez, Ana-Maurine Lara, Yalitza Ferreras, Nelly Rosario, Marívell Contreras, Kersy Corporan, Angie Cruz, Carolina Gonzalez, Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, Jina Ortiz, Sofia Quintero, Delta Eusebio-Pol, Noris Eusebio-Pol, Farah Hallal Muñoz, Ángela Hernández Núñez, Miriam Mejía, Riamny Méndez, Jeannette Miller, Sheilly Núñez, Lissette Rojas-Berroa, Ludin Santana, Dulce Reyes-Bonilla, Luisa A. S. Vicioso ...
    With this new Latino literary collection Erika M. Martínez has brought together twenty-four engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living in the United States. The first volume of its kind, Daring to Write’s insightful works offer readers a wide array of content that touches on a range of topics: migration, history, religion, race, class, gender, and ... Read more

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