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  • Performing Irishness

    Irish Drama on the Galician Stage

    by Elisa Serra Porteiro ...
    Performing Irishness analyses the presence and impact of Irish drama in Galicia, a minorised cultural context where Ireland has historically been viewed as a recognisable, often inspirational, «other». Through her exploration of the ways in which translation choices interweave with theatre practice, the author reveals context and on-the-spot decisions as crucial elements in the adaptation and ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Juan Rulfo's Creative World

    Prose, Photography, Film

    Edited by Nuala Finnegan, Dylan Brennan ...
    Series series Legenda
    Though primarily known for his haunting, enigmatic novel Pedro Páramo and the unrelenting depictions of the failures of post-revolutionary Mexico in his short story collection, El Llano en llamas, Juan Rulfo also worked as scriptwriter on various collaborative film projects and his powerful interventions in the area of documentary photography ensure that he continues to inspire interest worldwide. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • 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

    $171.99 USD

  • 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

    $89.99 USD

  • 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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  • Football and Literature in South America

    by David Wood ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sports History
    South America is a region that enjoys an unusually high profile as the origin of some of the world’s greatest writers and most celebrated footballers. This is the first book to undertake a systematic study of the relationship between football and literature across South America. Beginning with the first football poem published in 1899, it surveys a range of texts that address key issues in the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • 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

    $31.99 USD

  • Two cines con nino

    Genre and the Child Protagonist in Fifty Years of Spanish Film (1955-2010)

    by Erin K. Hogan ...

    $96.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Horizons

    Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba

    by Abigail McEwen ...
    Modernism in Havana reached its climax during the turbulent years of the 1950s as a generation of artists took up abstraction as a means to advance artistic and political goals in the name of Cuba Libre. During a decade of insurrection and, ultimately, revolution, abstract art signaled the country’s cultural worldliness and its purchase within the international avant-garde. This pioneering book ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Delirious Consumption

    Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil

    by Sergio Delgado Moya ...
    Series series Border Hispanisms
    In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass consumption on an unprecedented scale, giving rise to the consumer society that exists today. Many avant-garde artists explored the nexus between consumption and aesthetics, questioning how consumerism affects how we perceive the world, place ourselves in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Emilia Pardo Bazán

    Edited by Margot Versteeg, Susan Walter ...
    Series Book 147 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    "Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) was the most prolific and influential woman writer of late nineteenth-century Spain," write the editors of this volume in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Contending with the critical literary, cultural, and social issues of the period, Pardo Bazán's novels, novellas, short stories, essays, plays, travel writing, and cookbooks offer ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • María Zambrano

    A Life of Poetic Reason and Political Commitment

    by Beatriz Caballero Rodríguez ...
    Series Book 1 - Iberian and Latin American Studies
    María Zambrano is widely regarded as one of the most original Spanish thinkers of the twentieth century. Her biggest contribution to intellectual history is, without doubt, her poetic reason and unique attempt to overcome the limiting coordinates of the framework of rationality established by the Enlightenment. Having spent forty-five years in exile, the relevance of this Spanish Republican ... Read more

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