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  • Goodbye Eros

    Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes

    Edited by Ana Laguna, John Beusterien ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Traditional Petrarchan and Neoplatonic paradigms of love started to show clear signs of inadequacy and exhaustion in the sixteenth century. How did the Spanish Golden Age recast worn out discourses of love and make them compelling again? This volume explores how Spanish letters recognized that old love paradigms, especially the crisis of the subject, presented an extraordinary opportunity for ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • Cervantes, the Golden Age, and the Battle for Cultural Identity in 20th-Century Spain

    by Professor or Dr. Ana María G. Laguna ...
    Studies that connect the Spanish 17th and 20th centuries usually do so through a conservative lens, assuming that the blunt imperialism of the early modern age, endlessly glorified by Franco's dictatorship, was a constant in the Spanish imaginary. This book, by contrast, recuperates the thriving, humanistic vision of the Golden Age celebrated by Spanish progressive thinkers, writers, and artists ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Cervantine Futures

    Reading Cervantes after the Critical Turn

    by Mercedes Alcalá-Galán, Luis F. Avilés, Margaret E. Boyle, Israel Burshatin, Susan Byrne, David Castillo, William Egginton, Ana Fernández-Blázquez, Pablo García Piñar, Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Catherine Infante, Elizabeth S. Lagresa-González, Ana Laguna, Chad Leahy, Maxim Rigaux, Luis Rodríguez Rincón, Victor Sierra Matute, Elizabeth Spragins, Cornesha Tweede, Steven Wagschal ...
    Cervantine Futures places the writings of Miguel de Cervantes into conversation with some of the most pressing issues in cultural studies, critical theory, and sociopolitical discourse of the last decade. Assembling a diverse range of prominent and emerging scholars in the field, this volume stakes a claim for Hispanism’s place in the growing scholarly movement to vindicate pre- and early ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    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

  • A Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

    by Sabine Köllmann ...
    This companion to the work of Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa traces his fictional and non-fictional writing throughout the different phases of a career spanning more than fifty years. His lifelong dedication to literature goes hand in hand with his commitment as a public intellectual, a role that frequently involves him in controversy. Against the backdrop of Vargas Llosa's political ... Read more

    $28.99 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

  • Hispanic Immigrant Literature

    El Sueño del Retorno

    by Nicolás Kanellos ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in the United States. Immigrant literature uses predominantly the language of the homeland; it serves a ... Read more

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  • Sandino's Nation

    Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez Writing Nicaragua, 1940-2012

    by Stephen Henighan ...
    Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez are two of the most influential Latin American intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Addressing Nicaragua's struggle for self-definition from divergent ethnic, religious, generational, political, and class backgrounds, they constructed distinct yet compatible visions of national history, anchored in a reappraisal of the early ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Dream Nation

    Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence

    by María Acosta Cruz ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have been defining features of Puerto Rican literature and culture. In the provocative new book Dream Nation, María Acosta Cruz investigates the roots and effects of this profound disconnect between cultural fantasy and political reality ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Nossa and Nuestra América

    Inter-American Dialogues

    by Robert Patrick Newcomb ...
    Series Book 52 - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    Is Brazil part of Latin America, or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues demonstrates, this question has been debated by Brazilian and Spanish American intellectuals alike since the early nineteenth century, though it has received limited scholarly attention and its answer is less obvious than you might think. This book charts Brazil's evolving and often ... Read more

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  • Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

    by Maryellen Bieder, Roberta Johnson ...
    Series series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
    The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) pitted conservative forces including the army, the Church, the Falange (fascist party), landowners, and industrial capitalists against the Republic, installed in 1931 and supported by intellectuals, the petite bourgeoisie, many campesinos (farm laborers), and the urban proletariat. Provoking heated passions on both sides, the Civil War soon became an international ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • A New History of Iberian Feminisms

    Edited by Silvia Bermudez, Roberta Johnson ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    A New History of Iberian Feminisms is both a chronological history and an analytical discussion of feminist thought in the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal, and the territories of Spain – the Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and Galicia – from the eighteenth century to the present day.The Iberian Peninsula encompasses a dynamic and fraught history of feminism that had to contend with entrenched ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD