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Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 90.00Addressing the transnational relationships of Freemasonry, politics, and culture in the field of Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures, Writing Secrecy provides insight into Pan-Caribbean, transnational and diasporic formations of these Masonic lodges and their influences on political and cultural discourses in the Americas. more...
A Place Where the Sea Remembers
Coffee House Press 2013; US$ 9.99Winner, Discover Great New Writers Award. Winner, Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. "Profound.... a quietly stunning work that leaves soft tracks in the heart."-- The Washington Post BookWorld "Merits placement beside some of the mesmerizing new literature with its roots in Latin America."-- The New York Times Book Review more...
Foucault and Latin America
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95Foucault and Latin America is the first volume to trace the influence of Foucault's theories on power, discourse, government, subjectivity and sexuality in Latin American thought. more...
El Tema De La Simulaction En El Teatro De Cinco Paises Hispano Americanos Del Siglo XX
The Edwin Mellen Press 2013; US$ 159.95This book investigates the theme of imposters in three Hispanic American plays and two Caribbean plays from the early twentieth century. The author has selected each play from a different country so that the scholarship presents a broader perspective of Hispanic American and Caribbean themes. In these five plays, the main characters fabricate their... more...
After Translation
Fordham University Press 2013; US$ 44.99Translation--from both a theoretical and practical point of view--articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean. After Translation examines from a transnational perspective the... more...
In the Shadows of Divine Perfection
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 141.00In the Shadows of Divine Perfection provides an examination of Derek Walcott's Omeros 1990)- the St. Lucian poet's longest work, and the piece that secured his Nobel Laureate-that reveals the deep-seated bond between the root narratives of ancient Greece to the cultural products and practices of the contemporary Caribbean. This book presents the first... 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...
Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 90.00Featuring canonical Spanish American and Brazilian texts of the 1920s and 30s, Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature is an innovative analysis of the body as site of inscription for avant-garde objectives such as originality, subjectivity, and subversion. more...
Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00Using contemporary literary representations of place, this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography, cognitive science, urban sociology, and globalization studies. 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...









