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“priscilla archibald”

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  • Imagining Modernity in the Andes

    by Priscilla Archibald ...
    Imagining Modernity in the Andes deals with the intersection of projects of modernity and cultural representation in the Andes. The Peruvian novelist and anthropologist José María Arguedas occupies a privileged place in a study that charts the social, cultural, and intellectual transformations that took place in the Andes throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In its ... Read more

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  • Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora

    From the Americas to the World

    by John Ochoa, Monika Kaup, Antonio Barrenechea, Anna Brickhouse, Priscilla Archibald, Christopher Winks, Wendy Faris, Ralph Bauer, Silvia Spitta0, Stephen M. Hart1, Djelal Kadir2 ...
    Honoring the lifework of the comparative literature scholar, From the Americas to the World: Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora traces artistic and cultural pathways that connect Latin American literature and culture to the Americas, and to the world beyond. The essays in this collection cover three critical fields: comparative hemispheric American literature, magical realism, and the ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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