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  • The Mythmaker

    A Study of Motif and Symbol in the Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges

    Readers who are intrigued, though often mystified, by the intellectual fantasies of Jorge Luis Borges will find this book a revelation, a skeleton key to one of the most fundamental and baffling aspects of Borges’s fictions: the pattern of symbolism with an inner meaning. Carter Wheelock’s study reduces a number of literary and intellectual abstractions to concrete terms, enabling the reader to ... Leer más

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  • Iracema

    Series series Library of Latin America
    Jose de Alencar's prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a classic of Brazilian literature--perhaps the most widely-known piece of fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar;s many works. Set in the sixteenth century, it is an extremely romantic portrayal of a doomed live between a Portuguese soldier and an Indian maiden. Iracema reflects the gingerly way that mid ... Leer más

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  • The Bow and the Lyre

    The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

    de Octavio Paz ...
    Traducido por Ruth L. C. Simms ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives. ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel García Márquez

    de Gerald Martin ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1927), wrote two of the great novels of the twentieth century, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. As novelist, short story writer and journalist, García Márquez has one of literature's most instantly recognizable styles and since the beginning of his career has explored a consistent set of themes, revolving ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • La Malinche in Mexican Literature

    From History to Myth

    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Of all the historical characters known from the time of the Spanish conquest of the New World, none has proved more pervasive or controversial than that of the Indian interpreter, guide, mistress, and confidante of Hernán Cortés, Doña Marina—La Malinche—Malintzin. The mother of Cortés's son, she becomes not only the mother of the mestizo but also the Mexican Eve, the symbol of national betrayal ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Prophet in the Wilderness

    The Works of Ezequiel Martínez Estrada

    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    A universal test of great writers is the quality of their response to the human dilemma. Prophet in the Wilderness traces the development of that response in the works of the Argentine writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, from the first ambitious poems to its definitive expression in the essays and short stories.His theme is progressive disillusionment, in history and in personal experience, both of ... Leer más

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  • Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

    These wide-ranging conversations have an exceptionally open and intimate tone, giving us a personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature.Interviewer Fernando Sorrentino, an Argentinian writer and anthologist, is endowed with literary acumen, sensitivity, urbanity, and an encyclopedic memory of Jorge Luis Borges' work (in his prologue, Borges jokes that ... Leer más

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  • Selected Writings of Andrés Bello

    Series series Library of Latin America
    Andrés Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major role in shaping the national identities of newly independent Latin American countries. He held several key government positions, authored Chile's ... Leer más

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  • Bandit Narratives in Latin America

    From Villa to Chávez

    Series Libro 74 - Illuminations
    Bandits seem ubiquitous in Latin American culture. Even contemporary actors of violence are framed by narratives that harken back to old images of the rural bandit, either to legitimize or delegitimize violence, or to intervene in larger conflicts within or between nation-states.However, the bandit seems to escape a straightforward definition, since the same label can apply to the leader of ... Leer más

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  • After-Dinner Conversation

    The Diary of a Decadent

    Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, Jos Asuncin Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de sicle novels and the first one to be translated into English. Perhaps the single best work for understanding turn-of-the-twentieth-century writing in South America, After-Dinner Conversation is ... Leer más

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  • Memoir

    Traducido por Suzanne Hintz, Benigno Trigo ...
    Memoir is Rosario Ferré’s account of her life both as a writer and as a member of a family at the center of the economic and political history of Puerto Rico during the American Century, one hundred years of territorial “non-incorporation” into the United States. The autobiography tells the story of Ferré’s transformation from the daughter of a privileged family into a celebrated novelist, poet, ... Leer más

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  • Staging Creolization

    Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean

    Series series New World Studies
    In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that premiered in the French Caribbean or in France in the 1980s and 1990s and soon thereafter traveled to the United States. Sahakian argues that these late-twentieth-century plays by French Caribbean women writers dramatize and enact creolization—the process of ... Leer más

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