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Martin Rivas
Oxford University Press, USA 2000; US$ 15.99Widely acknowledged as the first Chilean novel, Martin Rivas (1862) by Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920) is at once a passionate love story and an optimistic representation of Chilean nationhood. Written shortly after a decade of civil conflict, it is an indispensable source for understanding politics and society in nineteenth-century Chile. The hero... more...
Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 95.00Taking a comparative view of literary and cultural production in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the U.S., Sugg traces and analyzes modes of minority identity and its representation in various circuits across the Americas. more...
Latin American Women Writers
Scarecrow Press 2007; US$ 99.99There is a wealth of published literature in English by Latin American women writers, but such material can be difficult to locate due to the lack of available bibliographic resources. In addition, the various types of published narrative (short stories, novels, novellas, autobiographies, and biographies) by Latin American women writers has increased... more...
The Shadow of the Shadow
Cinco Puntos Press 2006; US$ 13.95Sex, murder, and gun-toting poets in post-Revolutionary Mexico City. Dominoes are played by all. more...
Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00This book traces the ways in which problems of imaginative authority and authorship structure the fiction and non-fiction of V.S. Naipaul and resonate in postcolonial literature. Imraan Coovadia argues that the post-colonial societies Naipaul studies in novels such as A Bend in the River and Guerillas are defined by the fragility of their authority.... more...
Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 133.00Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural study responds to the general trend in migration discourse that presents the Caribbean experience as unidirectional and uniform across the geographical... more...
Galdós: Fortunata and Jacinta
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 22.00A new critical introduction to Galdos' four-part masterpiece set in Madrid in the 1870s. more...
Chicano Poetics
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 34.00Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities examines the crossing of literary and social forces that forms the context for being Chicano. more...
Narrating from the Margins
Editions Rodopi 2011; US$ 44.00In Narrating from the Margins , Nagihan Haliloglu casts a discerning look at Jean Rhyss protagonists and the ways in which they engage in self-narration. The book offers a close reading of Rhyss novels, with particular attention to the links between identity construction and self-narration, in a modernist and postcolonial idiom. It draws... more...
Imagining Modernity in the Andes
Bucknell University Press 2011; US$ 65.00This interdisciplinary work deals with the intersection of projects of modernity with constructions of race and ethnicity in the Andes. The book analyzes indigenista writings, the multidisciplinary work of osé Marìa Arguedas, and the anthropological experiments of the nineteen-fifties. It addresses the relevance of transculturation theory in a transnational... more...









