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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...
Poetry After the Invention of América
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 85.00This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book approaches literature as a Western invention and, in turn, seeks... more...
Iracema
Oxford University Press, USA 2000; US$ 15.99Jose de Alencar's prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a classic of Brazilian literature--perhaps the most widely-known piece of fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar;s many works. Set in the sixteenth century, it is an extremely romantic portrayal of a doomed live between a Portuguese soldier and an Indian maiden.... more...
Die koloniale Karibik
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 126.00This analysis of the kaleidoscopic world of the 19th-century Caribbean and the literary and cultural transfers that took place during thattime offers completely new insights into early processes of cultural globalization. Racist discourses, established models of ?white? abolitionists, the politics of memory, and the previously ignored importance of... more...
Imaginarios literarios políticos en el Brasileño Jorge Amado
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 169.95This book analyzes the influence and importance of the political convictions from the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado in the most representative phase of his literary career. The works presented in this book deal with social and political themes found within Amados novels from 1930-1950. More explicitly the book examines how Amado was influenced... more...
Rereading the Writings of Roberto Arlt (1900-1942) within the Framework of Argentine Theatre and Popular Literature
The Edwin Mellen Press 2012; US$ 159.95Arlt is an influential Latin American novelist. His literary production was not confined to novels and he also wrote shorter narratives individually. It was not until long after his death that he began to receive national and international fame. An aesthetic appraisal of an author whose work possessed a trenchant social realism fused with fantasy,... more...
Latin American Science Fiction
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00This book is the first English language critical anthology to examine Latin American science fiction in its entirety. more...









