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  • The Moral Electricity of Print

    Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women's Circuit, 1876-1910

    by Ronald Briggs ...
    Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century SectionMoral electricity—a term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society. This concept wasn't strictly an American idea, of course, and Ronald Briggs introduces us to one of the greatest ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Changes in the Landscape

    Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

    by Jens Andermann, Ronald Briggs, Gisela Heffes, Aarti S. Madan, Vanesa Miseres, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Jorge Quintana Navarrete, Catalina Rodríguez, Emmanuel A Velayos Larrabure, Lesley Wylie ...
    Changes in the Landscape is a collection of timely essays that bring the methodologies and commitments of ecocriticism to bear on the study of Latin American literature and cultural production. The book’s eleven chapters, written by some of the leading voices in the field, invite readers to consider how the relationship between humans and nonhuman nature was fundamentally transformed during a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870: Volume 2

    Edited by Ana Peluffo, Ronald Briggs ...
    Series series Latin American Literature in Transition
    Latin American Literature in Transition 1800-1870 uses affect as an analytical tool to uncover the countervailing forces that shaped Latin American literatures and cultures during the first six decades of the nineteenth century. Chapters provide perspectives on colonial violence and its representation, on the development of the national idea, on communities within and beyond the nation, and on the ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Ronald Wilks, Anthony Briggs, David McDuff ...
    This edition includes: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Happy Ever After, and The Cossacks. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume are connected by this preoccupation, along with the author's simultaneous attempt to help us improve our lives. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Gambler and Other Stories

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Translated by Ronald Meyer ...
    The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes 'Bobok', the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Idiot

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ron Arad ...
    Translated by David McDuff ...
    Dostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness, innocence and greedReturning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin - the titular 'idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Images and Identities

    Puerto Rican in Two World Contexts

    by Asela Rodriguez de Laguna ...
    This book represents the vitality, diversity, and distinctiveness of contemporary Puerto Rican letters and writers. It is concerned with the image and identity of the Puerto Rican as it is reflected in literature. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Prospero's Daughter

    The Prose of Rosario Castellanos

    by Joanna O'Connell ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    A member of Mexico's privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America's most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O'Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos' prose writings, focusing specifically on how Castellanos' experiences as a Mexican woman led her to an ethic of solidarity with the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Uncivil Wars

    Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory

    by Sandra Messinger Cypess ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender.While Paz’s privileged, prize ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • La Malinche in Mexican Literature

    From History to Myth

    by Sandra Messinger Cypess ...
    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 ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity

    Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism

    by Sherina Feliciano-Santos ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, the book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists as well as the alternative fonts of authority they draw on to ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones

    Illuminating Gender and Nation

    by Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela ...
    Series series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
    Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps the most discussed aspect of Palma’s work – engaging with new critical thinking on historicism and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD