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  • This Side of Philosophy

    Literature and Thinking in Twentieth-Century Spanish Letters

    by Stephen Gingerich ...
    Series series SUNY series, Literature...in Theory
    Assesses a distinct style of thinking in twentieth-century Spanish writing, one in which literature plays a central role in reaching behind philosophy to essential sources of life and meaning.Struck by the contrast between the prestige of their literary tradition and their apparent philosophical insignificance, modern writers from Spain have devoted themselves to exploring the relation between ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Doing Justice

    Three Essays on Walter Benjamin

    by Pablo Oyarzun, Jacques Lezra ...
    Translated by Stephen Gingerich ...
    Series series Critical South
    Pablo Oyarzun is one of the foremost Benjamin scholars in Latin America. His writings have shaped the reception of Benjamin’s work in Latin America and have been central to the effort to identify the tasks and responsibilities of the kind of critical theory that would interrupt social violence.In this book Oyarzun examines some of the key concepts in Benjamin’s work – including his concepts of ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

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  • Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América

    by Rodolfo Kusch, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Translated by María Lugones, Joshua M. Price ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an opposition between the technologies and rationalities of European modernity and the popular mode of ... Read more

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  • The Language of the Inka since the European Invasion

    by Bruce Mannheim ...
    Series series Texas Linguistics Series
    The Inka empire, Tawantinsuyu, fell to Spanish invaders within a year's time (1532-1533), but Quechua, the language of the Inka, is still the primary or only language of millions of Inka descendants throughout the southern Andes. In this innovative study, Bruce Mannheim synthesizes all that is currently known about the history of Southern Peruvian Quechua since the Spanish invasion, providing new ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Poetry in Pieces

    César Vallejo and Lyric Modernity

    by Michelle Clayton ...
    Series Book 4 - FlashPoints
    Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892–1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings—Peru and Paris—which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life; ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Mario Vargas Llosa

    A Collection of Critical Essays

    Edited by Charles Rossman, Alan Warren Friedman ...
    The Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has been acclaimed throughout the literary world as one of Latin America's finest writers, yet until recently little has been written about his work in English. While his work has the subject of an increasing flow of critical commentary in Spanish and his major novels have been translated into English, this is the first full-scale critical treatment of Vargas Llosa ... Read more

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  • Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr., Carlos Alberto Sánchez ...
    Series series Oxford New Histories of Philosophy
    Sánchez and Sanchez have selected, edited, translated, and introduced some of the most influential texts in Mexican philosophy, which constitute a unique and robust tradition that will challenge and complicate traditional conceptions of philosophy. The texts collected here are organized chronologically and represent a period of Mexican thought and culture that emerged from the Mexican Revolution ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Writing of Elena Poniatowska

    Engaging Dialogues

    by Beth E. Jörgensen ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Elena Poniatowska is one of Latin America's most distinguished and innovative living writers. Advocacy of women and the poor in their struggle for social and economic justice, denunciation of the repression of that struggle, and a tendency to blur the boundaries between conventional literary forms characterize her writing practice.Asserting that Poniatowska's writing has been uniquely shaped by ... Read more

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  • Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

    by Karl Erik Schollhammer ...
    This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic, ethical, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Queer Rebels

    Rewriting Literary Traditions in Contemporary Spanish Novels

    by Łukasz Smuga ...
    Translated by Patrycja Poniatowska ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
    Queer Rebels is a study of gay narrative writings published in Spain at the turn of the 20th century. The book scrutinises the ways in which the literary production of contemporary Spanish gay authors – José Luis de Juan, Luis G. Martín, Juan Gil-Albert, Juan Goytisolo, Eduardo Mendicutti, Luis Antonio de Villena and Álvaro Pombo – engages with homophobic and homophile discourses, as well as with ... Read more

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  • Cultural Hermeneutics

    Essays after Unamuno and Ricoeur

    by Mario Valdes ...
    In Cultural Hermeneutics, Mario J. Valdés offers a synthesis of the hermeneutic philosophies of Miguel de Unamuno and Paul Ricoeur, a dialectical method that has formed the basis for many of Valdés’ own studies in comparative literature. As Valdés explains in these insightful essays, what Unamuno and Ricoeur shared in their hermeneutic studies was a theory of interpretation in which the meaning of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Adolfo Bioy Casares

    Borges, Fiction and Art

    Edited by Karl Posso ...
    Series Book 1 - Iberian and Latin American Studies
    Best known as Jorge Luis Borges's right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic fiction, are now ripe for reassessment. This volume looks at Bioy's extensive oeuvre which offers many surprising reflections on the twentieth century s cultural, social and political transformations, ... Read more

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