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  • The Modernist Movement in Brazil

    A Literary Study

    by John Nist ...
    “Ask an authority on Brazilian culture what he considers to be the most significant artistic event in Brazil during this century,” observes John Nist, “and he will quickly reply, ‘The Modern Art Week Exhibition, staged in Sao Paulo in February, 1922.’ This public demonstration and aesthetic manifesto represented a cut with the past, a violent break with tradition unparalleled in Brazilian history. ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination

    by Sarah Phillips Casteel ...
    Series series Literature Now
    In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these historical migrations through the lens of postwar Caribbean fiction and poetry, Sarah Phillips Casteel presents the first major study of representations ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Esau and Jacob

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Elizabeth Lowe ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between the traditional and the modern, and between the monarchical and republican ideals. Instead of a heroic biblical fable, Machado de Assis gives us a ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • 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

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  • Literature Class, Berkeley 1980

    by Julio Cortázar ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cortázar’s own writing career as they are about ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America

    Intervening Acts

    by Vicky Unruh ...
    Women have always been the muses who inspire the creativity of men, but how do women become the creators of art themselves? This was the challenge faced by Latin American women who aspired to write in the 1920s and 1930s. Though women's roles were opening up during this time, women writers were not automatically welcomed by the Latin American literary avant-gardes, whose male members viewed women ... Read more

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  • Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic

    by Anne W. Gulick ...
    The era of national liberation and decolonization may have come and gone, but postcolonialism remains a largely elusive ideal in the early twenty-first century. In Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic, Anne W. Gulick uncovers a dynamic literary history of African and Caribbean critical engagements with First World law. This transatlantic archive attests to the ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • The Shattered Mirror

    Representations of Women in Mexican Literature

    by María Elena de Valdés ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Popular images of women in Mexico—conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television—were long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized fallen woman. But new representations of women and their roles in Mexican society have shattered the ideological mirrors that reflected these images. This book explores this major change in the literary ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • The Colombian Novel, 1844-1987

    by Raymond Leslie Williams ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude have awakened English-language readers to the existence of Colombian literature in recent years, but Colombia has a well-established literary tradition that far predates the Latin American "boom." In this pathfinding study, Raymond Leslie Williams provides an overview of seventeen major authors and more than one hundred works spanning the years 1844 to ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature

    Between Romanticism and Formalism

    by Joanna Page ...
    Series Book 10 - Latin American and Caribbean Studies
    With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between literature and science in postmodern culture. Joanna Page examines how contemporary fiction and literary theory in ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Pablo Neruda

    Evaluating Neruda's Poetry

    by Jason Wilson ...
    Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a view that there are two Nerudas, an early Romantic visionary and a later Marxist populist, who denied his earlier poetic self. By focussing on the poet's apprenticeship, and by looking closely at how Neruda created his poetic persona within his poems, this Companion tries ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Versos Sencillos

    A Dual-Language Edition

    by José Martí ...
    Translated by Anne Fountain ...
    In 1890, the great Cuban revolutionary leader Jose Marti wrote his most famous poetry, Versos Sencillos, in a small town called Haines Falls in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Sincere and intensely personal in tone, these verses form a unique autobiographical expression yet have world-wide appeal.This dual-language edition of Versos Sencillos offers both the Spanish-language original and a ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD