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“sandra benitez”

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  • A Place Where the Sea Remembers

    A Novel

    by Sandra Benitez ...
    A universal portrait and an insider’s look at life in Latin America in this “vivid, graceful, tautly constructed” novel of love, anger, hope, and tragedy (Tim O’Brien). At the heart of this “profound . . . quietly stunning work that leaves soft tracks in the heart” is Chayo, the flower-seller, and her husband Candelario, the salad-maker, who finally may be blessed with the child they thought they ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Bow and the Lyre

    The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

    by Octavio Paz ...
    Translated by 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. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Caribbean Literary Discourse

    Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean

    by Dr. Barbara Lalla, Ph.D., Dr. Jean D'Costa, Ph.D., Dr. Velma Pollard, Ph.D. ...
    A study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writersCaribbean Literary Discourse opens the challenging world of language choices and literary experiments characteristic of the multicultural and multilingual Caribbean. In these societies, the language of the master— ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture

    Edited by John King ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The term Latin America refers to the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking states created in the early 1820s following the wars of independence, states that differed enormously in geographical and demographical scale, ethnic composition and economic resources, yet shared distinct historical and cultural traits. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts explore the unity and diversity of the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Dragons in the Land of the Condor

    Writing Tusán in Peru

    by Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in the Land of the Condor Ignacio López-Calvo studies the influence of a Chinese ethnic background in the writing of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sino-Peruvian authors.While authors like Siu Kam Wen and Julia Wong often rely on their Chinese cultural heritage for inspiration, many others, like Pedro Zulen, ... Read more

    $62.69 CAD

  • Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

    by Fernando Sorrentino, Clark M. Zlotchew ...
    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 ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • The Siren and the Seashell

    And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry

    by Octavio Paz ...
    Translated by Lysander Kemp, Margaret Sayers Peden ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to achieve a unity of their polarities. The Siren and the Seashell is a collection of Paz's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general. The first five poets he treats are Latin American ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guillermo Cabrera Infante

    Two Islands, Many Worlds

    by Raymond D. Souza ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    A native Cuban who has lived in London since 1966, Guillermo Cabrera Infante is, in every sense, a multilingual and multicultural author. Equally at ease in both Spanish and English, he has distinguished himself with daring and innovative novels, essays, short stories, and film scripts written in both languages. His work has won major literary awards in France, Italy, and Spain, as well as a ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Worlds of Langston Hughes

    Modernism and Translation in the Americas

    by Vera M. Kutzinski ...
    The poet Langston Hughes was a tireless world traveler and a prolific translator, editor, and marketer. Translations of his own writings traveled even more widely than he did, earning him adulation throughout Europe, Asia, and especially the Americas. In The Worlds of Langston Hughes, Vera Kutzinski contends that, for writers who are part of the African diaspora, translation is more than just a ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Out of Order!: Anthony Winkler and White West Indian Writing

    by Kim Robinson-Walcott ...
    The book provides a detailed analysis of two Winkler novels (The Lunatic and The Duppy) and an autobiographical work (Going Home to Teach). ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris

    by Gianluca Delfino ...
    Gianluca Delfino's encounter with one of the Caribbean's most controversial authors illuminates Wilson Harris's imaginative approach to history and time. Delfino references several novels, with a special focus on The Infinite Rehearsal (1987), Jonestown (1996), and The Dark Jester (2001). His analysis encompasses critical perspectives from African philosophy to Jungian readings, refracted through ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Mexican Women Writers

    Five Voices

    by Gabriella de Beer ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Mexican women writers moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and 1980s are Maria Luisa Puga, Silvia Molina, Brianda Domecq, Carmen Boullosa, and Angeles Mastretta. Sharing a range of affinities while maintaining distinctive voices and outlooks, these are the women whom Gabriella de Beer has chosen to profile in ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD