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Private Topographies
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 95.00In Private Topographies , Grzegorczyk identifies and analyzes the types of postcolonial subjectivity prevalent among the Creole (Euro-American) ruling classes in post-independence, nineteenth-century century Latin America as articulated through their relation to their surroundings. Exactly how did creole elites change their self-conception in the... more...
Questing Fictions
University of Minnesota Press 1986; US$ 45.00Questing Fictions was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Questing Fictions analyzes twentieth-century Latin American fiction in the light of contemporary literary theory.... more...
Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions
The University of North Carolina Press 2004; US$ 58.00Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to these contemporary dilemmas about... more...
The Spaces of Latin American Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 95.00This book examines how Latin American writers, artists, and intellectuals negotiate with an evolving Western culture which, through neo-colonial structures, relegates them to marginal or subaltern positions. Among the authors studied are: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, Jorge Luis Borges, and Alberto Fuguet. more...
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 18.99"The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern... more...
Juan de la Rosa
Oxford University Press, USA 1999; US$ 15.99Nataniel Aguirre (1843-1888) was a statesman and active participant in shaping Bolivian politics and economics. His novel functionalizes the memories of the last soldier of the Wars of Independence. The story is told as the reminiscences of Colonel de la Rosa. more...
Diasporic Subjectivity and Cultural Brokering in Contemporary Post-Colonial Literatures
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 64.99Demonstrating that an intercultural dialogue and constant cultural brokering are a must in our post-colonial world, the essays in this volume are a valuable contribution to the ongoing discourse on post-colonial diasporic literatures and identities. more...
Garcia Marquez
The University of North Carolina Press 2009; US$ 24.00Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of our time, with a unique literary creativity rooted in the history of his native Colombia. This revised and expanded edition of a classic work is the first book of criticism to consider in detail the totality of Garcia Marquez's magnificent oeuvre. In a beautifully written examination,... more...
Carnal Inscriptions
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 100.00This book explores manifestations of physical disability in Spanish American narrative fiction and performance, from José Martí's late nineteenth century crónicas, to Mario Bellatín's twenty-first century novels, from the performances of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco to the testimonio and filmic depictions of Gabriela Brimmer. more...
Eating Well, Reading Well
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 65.80While rejecting a conception of literature as moral philosophy, or a device for imparting particular morals to the reader through exemplary characters and plots, Maryse Condé has displayed throughout her writing career a strong valorization of literature as ethical critique. This study examines her singular approach to literary commitment as a... more...









