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The Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel García Márquez
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 16.00A concise, comprehensive and original introduction to the fiction and journalism of Gabriel García Márquez. more...
Fuentes de la imaginación histórica en la narrativa de Marcio Veloz Maggiolo
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 149.95This study examines four novels by Marcio Veloz Maggiolo. It reveals the fundamental sources used in these novels in constructing the concept of the historical imagination. The analysis shows that the traditional concept of official history is rejected to give rise to an eclectic view of the past that embraces scientific and... more...
After Translation
Fordham University Press 2013; US$ 44.99Translation--from both a theoretical and practical point of view--articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean. After Translation examines from a transnational perspective the... more...
The Will to Heal
University of New Mexico Press 2007; US$ 27.95How six Latina authors, whose works combine autobiography and fiction, use this technique to heal from personal and political trauma. more...
Reversible Monuments
Copper Canyon Press 2013; US$ 12.99A sweeping and exhaustive overview of contemporary Mexican poetry. more...
Quincas Borba
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 15.99Along with The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and Dom Casmurro, Quincas Borba is one of Machado de Assis' major works and indeed one of the major works of nineteenth century fiction. With his uncannily postmodern sensibility, his delicious wit, and his keen insight into the political and social complexities of the Brazilian Empire, Machado opens... more...
Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 37.99Contains a selection of short stories by the best-known authors in Brazilian literature, from the late nineteenth century. This anthology concludes with a haunting story, set in the opera theater in Manaus by one of Brazil's most successful writers, Milton Hatoum. more...
The Novels of Samuel Selvon
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 168.00The author of such works as A Brighter Sun (1952), The Lonely Londoners (1956), and The Plains of Caroni (1970), West Indian novelist Samuel Selvon is attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention. Nonetheless, criticism of his works has largely been imbalanced, with most scholarship focusing primarily on his language. This book corrects that imbalance... more...
Miguel Angel Asturias's Archeology of Return
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 37.00René Prieto examines how Miguel Angel Asturias turns to the cultural traditions of the ancient Maya to produce three highly complex and widely misunderstood masterpieces. more...









