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Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures
Lexington Books 2008; US$ 29.99Rethinking 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 Literature
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 9.99A 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 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...
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...
Narrative Mutations
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 133.00Given 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 Imagination
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Combining 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 Voices
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 19.95The 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 Testimonies
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00Analyses 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 Novel
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 28.00Carlos Alonso's study provides a radical re-examination of the novela de la tierra or regional novel. 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...









