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  • Catalan Culture

    Experimentation, Creative Imagination and the Relationship with Spain

    by Lloyd Hughes Davies, David Gareth Walters, John B. Hall ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    This volume presents studies of some of the key artistic manifestations in Catalonia in recent times, a period of innovation and experimentation, and addresses issues concerning literature, film, theatre and performance art. From the creation of a new popular theatre in the work of the Valencian playwright Rodolf Sirera, or the conception of landscape, myth and memory in the late work of the ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia

    Edited by María Claudia André, Eva Paulino Bueno ...
    Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies.Focusing on drama, ... Read more

    $620.99 CAD

  • Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture

    Edited by Inés Ordiz, Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays in this volume illuminate the existence of native representations of the Gothic, while also exploring the presence of universal archetypes of ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Flamenco on the Global Stage

    Historical, Critical and Theoretical Perspectives

    Edited by Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum, Michelle Heffner Hayes, K. Meira Goldberg ...
    The language of the body is central to the study of flamenco. From the records of the Inquisition, to 16th century literature, to European travel diaries, the Spanish dancer beguiles and fascinates. The word flamenco evokes the image of a sensuous and rebellious woman--the bailaora --whose movements seduce the audience, only to reject their attention with a stomp of defiance. The dancer's body is ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The child in Spanish cinema

    by Sarah Wright ...
    In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent ‘prosthetic memory’. The central theme of the child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of the self to the past, and to cinema.Concentrating on films from the 1950s to the present day, the book explores religious films, musicals, ‘art ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Adolfo Bioy Casares

    Borges, Fiction and Art

    Edited by Karl Posso ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    Best known as Jorge Luis Borges's right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic fiction, are now ripe for reassessment. This volume looks at Bioy's extensive oeuvre which offers many surprising reflections on the twentieth century s cultural, social and political transformations, ... Read more

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  • Beyond Bolaño

    The Global Latin American Novel

    by Héctor Hoyos ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003

    Edited by Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez ...
    The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia ... Read more

    $242.99 CAD

  • Barcelona

    Visual Culture, Space and Power

    Edited by Helena Buffery, Carlota Caulfield ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power offers a unique approach to the history of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period. It presents the relationship between environment, identity and performance as explored by countercultural artists and communities from the 1960s to the present day. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain

    The Comedia on Page, Stage and Screen

    by Duncan Wheeler ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies. The book contextualises the socio-historical background to the modern-day performance of the country’s three major Spanish baroque playwrights (Calderón de la ... Read more

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  • Collecting from the Margins

    Material Culture in a Latin American Context

    by María Mercedes Andrade, Kelly Austin, Shelley Garrigan, Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, Fernando Pérez, Andrew Reynolds, Javier Uriarte, Olga Vilella ...
    From the cabinets of wonderof the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and institutional, has been instrumental in the consolidation of modern notions of the individual and of the nation, and numerous studies have discussed its complex ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry

    Edited by Stephen M. Hart ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of Latin American poetry and includes separate chapters on Colonial poetry, Romanticism/modernism, the avant-garde, conversational ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD