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  • Theorizing a Colonial Caribbean-Atlantic Imaginary

    Sugar and Obeah

    by Keith Sandiford ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies
    This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points marking respectively the origins and demise of slavocratic systems in the West Indies. Focusing on Richard Ligon’s History of Barbados (1657) and Matthew ‘Monk’ Lewis’ Journal of a West India Proprietor ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • A Place Where the Sea Remembers

    A Novel

    by Sandra Benitez ...
    The hopes, triumphs, failures, and shortcomings of the novel’s enchanting array of characters create a graceful picture of life that is both a universal portrait and an insider’s look at life in Latin America.InA Place Where the Sea Remembers, Sandra Benítez invites us into a mesmerizing world filled with, love and betrayal, tragedy and hope. This rich and bewitching story is a bittersweet ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pirate Novels

    Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America

    by Nina Gerassi-Navarro ...
    In Pirate Novels Nina Gerassi-Navarro examines an overlooked genre to reveal how history and fiction blend to address important isuses of nation building in nineteenth-century Spanish America. In the figure of the pirate, bold and heroic to some, cruel and criminal to others, she reveals an almost ideal character that came to embody the spirit of emerging nationhood and the violence associated ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Esai Poems

    Breaking Bread with the Darkness I

    by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Foreword by Carolyn Forché ...
    DescriptionAmerican Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured decades in the penal system before becoming a renowned poet and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents, with brutal honesty, the daily complexities of adult life in the age of 9/11 and the Iraq War. This ex-convict, an essential voice in world poetry, chronicles ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Mexican Women Writers

    Five Voices

    by Gabriella de Beer ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Mexican women writers moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and 1980s are Maria Luisa Puga, Silvia Molina, Brianda Domecq, Carmen Boullosa, and Angeles Mastretta. Sharing a range of affinities while maintaining distinctive voices and outlooks, these are the women whom Gabriella de Beer has chosen to profile in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Women in Contemporary Latin American Novels

    Psychoanalysis and Gendered Violence

    Edited by Beatriz L. Botero ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the relationship between psychoanalysis, literary criticism and contemporary literature. Focusing on Latin America, and using examples from Brazilian, Colombian, Chilean, Puerto Rican, and Mexican literature, it provides an important account of why gendered violence occurs and how it is portrayed. In the novels discussed, the protagonists express similar fears, passions and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Sexual Textualities

    Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing

    by David William Foster ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Since the 1991 publication of his groundbreaking book Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing, David William Foster has proposed a series of theoretical and critical principles for the analysis of Latin American culture from the perspectives of the queer. This book continues that project with a queer reading of literary and cultural aspects of Latin American texts.Moving beyond its ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Writing of Elena Poniatowska

    Engaging Dialogues

    by Beth E. Jörgensen ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Elena Poniatowska is one of Latin America's most distinguished and innovative living writers. Advocacy of women and the poor in their struggle for social and economic justice, denunciation of the repression of that struggle, and a tendency to blur the boundaries between conventional literary forms characterize her writing practice.Asserting that Poniatowska's writing has been uniquely shaped by ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel

    by Paul R. McAleer ...
    An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the utopian impulse. This book analyses these functions of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Fernando Vallejo and Jaime Bayly. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Post-Conflict Literature

    Human Rights, Peace, Justice

    Edited by Chris Andrews, Matt McGuire ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace. Essays put insights from Peace and Conflict Studies into dialog with the unique ways in which literature attempts to understand the past, and to reimagine both the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity

    by John A. Ochoa ...
    While the concept of defeat in the Mexican literary canon is frequently acknowledged, it has rarely been explored in the fullness of the psychological and religious contexts that define this aspect of "mexicanidad." Going beyond the simple narrative of self-defeat, The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity presents a model of failure as a source of knowledge and renewed self-awareness ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Hemispheric Imaginations

    North American Fictions of Latin America

    by Helmbrecht Breinig ...
    What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this construction and added layers of complexity that subvert any approach based on stereotypes? ... Read more

    $7.19 USD