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  • The Noé Jitrik Reader

    Selected Essays on Latin American Literature

    by Noe Jitrik ...
    Translated by Susan E. Benner ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation
    The Argentine scholar Noé Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarship but also for his wit. This volume is the first to make available in English a selection of his most influential writings. These sparkling translations of essays first published between 1969 and the late 1990s reveal the extraordinary scope of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series New Accents
    The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Creole Indigeneity

    Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean

    by Shona N. Jackson ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies.Looking particularly ... Read more

    $17.99 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

    $15.89 USD

  • Rihanna

    Barbados World-Gurl in Global Popular Culture

    Edited by Hilary McD. Beckles, Heather D. Russell ...
    Rihanna is arguably the most commercially successful Caribbean artist in history. She is Barbadian and has been unwavering in publicly articulating her national and regional belonging. Still, there have been varied responses to Rihanna’s ascendancy, among both Barbadians and the wider Caribbean community. The responses reveal as much about our own national and regional anxieties as they do about ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Esai Poems

    Breaking Bread with the Darkness I

    by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Foreword by Carolyn Forché ...
    DescriptionAmerican Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured decades in the penal system before becoming a renowned poet and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents, with brutal honesty, the daily complexities of adult life in the age of 9/11 and the Iraq War. This ex-convict, an essential voice in world poetry, chronicles ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions

    Gender, Culture, and Nation Building

    by Debra J. Rosenthal ...
    Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to these contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing.Rosenthal ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Latin American Women Dramatists

    Theater, Texts, and Theories

    Edited by Catherine Larson, Margarita Vargas ...
    "This thoughtfully crafted . . . insightful and informative [anthology] elucidates an overlooked, essential component of the Latin American literary canon" ( Choice).Latin American Women Dramatists sheds much-needed light on the significant contributions made by these pioneering authors during the last half of the twentieth century. Contributors discuss fifteen works of Latin-American playwrights, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Culture and Revolution

    Violence, Memory, and the Making of Modern Mexico

    by Horacio Legrás ...
    Series series Border Hispanisms
    In the twenty years of postrevolutionary rule in Mexico, the war remained fresh in the minds of those who participated in it, while the enigmas of the revolution remained obscured. Demonstrating how textuality helped to define the revolution, Culture and Revolution examines dozens of seemingly ahistorical artifacts to reveal the radical social shifts that emerged in the war’s aftermath.Presented ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Mobility and Modernity

    Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination

    by Robert D. Aguirre ...
    Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination rewrites the history of the Panama Canal, assessing for the first time the literary culture of the preceding decades. In this period, U.S. and British writers and visual artists developed sophisticated languages of mobility, time, and speed to cast the isthmus as an in-between place, a point of connection to more ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Limits of Identity

    Politics and Poetics in Latin America

    by Charles Hatfield ...
    Series series Border Hispanisms
    The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José Martí and José Enrique Rodó) and contemporary theorists (such as John Beverley and Doris Sommer), Charles Hatfield reveals ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature

    Edited by Ileana Rodríguez, Mónica Szurmuk ...
    The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of women's writing in Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it explores women's literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically and written by a host of leading scholars, this History offers an array of ... Read more

    $34.49 USD