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Caribbean & Latin American

  • Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literaturesby Cecile Accilien

    Lexington Books 2008; US$ 29.99

    Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures analyzes novels and films that demonstrate how marriage affects Francophone African and Caribbean women in their respective societies. It also considers the various religious, social, economic, historical, cultural factors that influence marriage. more...

  • Colonial Latin American Literatureby Rolena Adorno

    Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 9.99

    A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World. A leading scholar of colonial Latin... more...

  • Juan de la Rosaby Nataniel Aguirre; Sergio Gabriel Waisman; Alba Maria Paz-Soldan

    Oxford University Press, USA 1999; US$ 15.99

    Nataniel 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...

  • Poetry After the Invention of Américaby Andrés Ajens; Michelle Gil-Montero

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 85.00

    This 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...

  • Narrative Mutationsby Rudyard Alcocer

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 133.00

    Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of "race" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and even radical-narratives retain physical and behavioral heredity as a guiding trope. The persistence of this concept in Caribbean literature informs not... more...

  • Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imaginationby Rudyard J. Alcocer

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an argument about the centrality of time travel in the Latin American and Caribbean imagination. more...

  • Decolonial Voicesby Arturo J. Aldama; Naomi Quiñonez

    Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 19.95

    The interdisciplinary essays in Decolonial Voices discuss racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions. This collection represents several key directions in the field: First, it charts how subaltern cultural productions... more...

  • Creole Testimoniesby Nicole N. Aljoe

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00

    Analyses the relationships among the socio-historical contexts, generic forms, and rhetorical strategies of British West Indian slave narratives. Grounded by the syncretic theories of creolisation and testimonio  it breaks new ground by reading these dictated and fragmentary narratives on their own terms as examples of 'creole testimony'. more...

  • The Spanish American Regional Novelby Carlos J. Alonso

    Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 28.00

    Carlos Alonso's study provides a radical re-examination of the novela de la tierra or regional novel. more...

  • Carnal Inscriptionsby Susan Antebi

    Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 100.00

    This 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...