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  • 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

  • Paris and the Marginalized Author

    Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile

    by Laila Amine, Karl Ashoka Britto, Norrell Edwards, Felix Germain, Aparna Nayak, Denis M. Provencher, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Dr. Leslie Barnes, Sandra Messinger Cypess, Valérie K. Orlando, Pamela A. Pears1, Laura Reeck3, Alison Rice4 ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    This volume of essays explores what it is that has brought marginalized and often exiled writers, seen as treacherous, alienated, and/or queer by their societies and nations together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period of the late 1920s to the present millennium, this volume considers many seminal questions that have influenced and continue to shape the realm of exiled writers who ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

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  • Octavio Paz

    by Nick Caistor ...
    Series Book 12 - Critical Lives
    When Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, it was in recognition of the fact that for many years he had been the pre-eminent poet in the Spanish speaking world. His work takes the traditions of Mexican poetry as well as French and Spanish influences, and adds what he himself read of his contemporaries in Mexico, Britain and France, in particular, the Surrealists. But Paz was also ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Saving Rachel

    by John Locke ...
    What if the best morning of your life suddenly turned into your worst nightmare? Sam Case is about to find out. Saving Rachel is the story of what happens when killers force a man to choose between his wife and his mistress...and the one he rejects must die. "If Dean Koontz collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock at the circus, this would be their brain child." –Vintage DM Book Reviews ... Read more

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  • Roberto Bolaño's Fiction

    An Expanding Universe

    by Chris Andrews ...
    Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Adios Muchachos

    by Daniel Chavarría ...
    This Edgar Award–winning crime novel offers "pulp fiction in Castro's Cuba" (Martin Cruz Smith, author The Girl from Venice).Alicia is a smart, confident, and gorgeous prostitute in Havana. She is not a streetwalker. Rather, she displays her wares on bicycle, seducing men through the irresistible pull of her fine derrière.John King, her new client, is a Canadian businessman with a striking ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of Context

    Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges

    by Daniel Balderston ...
    In Jorge Luis Borges's finely wrought, fantastic stories, so filigreed with strange allusions, critics have consistently found little to relate to the external world, to history--in short, to reality. Out of Context corrects this shortsighted view and reveals the very real basis of the Argentine master's purported "irreality." By providing the historical context for some of the writer's best-loved ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • 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

    $56.99 CAD

  • Latin America's New Historical Novel

    by Seymour Menton ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Beginning with the 1979 publication of Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra, the New Historical Novel has become the dominant genre within Latin American fiction. In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works.Menton argues persuasively that the proximity of the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Mythmaker

    A Study of Motif and Symbol in the Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges

    by Carter Wheelock ...
    Readers who are intrigued, though often mystified, by the intellectual fantasies of Jorge Luis Borges will find this book a revelation, a skeleton key to one of the most fundamental and baffling aspects of Borges’s fictions: the pattern of symbolism with an inner meaning. Carter Wheelock’s study reduces a number of literary and intellectual abstractions to concrete terms, enabling the reader to ... Read more

    $24.99 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