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The Air of Liberty
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 70.00The Caribbean imagination as framed within a Dutch historical setting has deep Portuguese-African roots. The Seven Provinces were the first European power, in the first half of the 17th century, to challenge the Iberian countries directly for a share in the slave trade. This book analyzes the philosophy underlying this transoceanic link, when contacts... more...
(Con)Fusing Signs and Postmodern
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 145.00Neustadt uses the term political confusion in a number of ways, most broadly to describe the generalized disorientation associated with Latin America in an age of postmodernity characterized by the coexistence of indigenous, mestizo, and European cultures, juxtaposed with the uneven effects of mass media and high technology more...
African Roots, Brazilian Rites
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomblé and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influences from US-based perspectives, through the vectors of public rituals, carnival, drama, poetry, and hip hop. more...
Afro-Caribbean Poetry and Ritual
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00This book investigates Kamau Brathwaite's and Derek Walcott's postcolonial debates, reading them against the traditional sites of the Caribbean imaginary. more...
Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film
Bucknell University Press 2011; US$ 64.99Afro-Cuban identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. 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...
Aimé Césaire
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 26.00A study of Antiguan writer Aimé Césaire, which links his political career to recurrent themes in his writing. more...
Alegoría E Ironía Bajo Censura En La Argentina Del Proceso (1976-1983)
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 169.95This text offers an analysis of how rhetorical strategies such as allegory, irony and symbolism, were employed by dissenting Argentine writers and singer-songwriters during the military dictatorship that seized power on March 24th 1976. more...
Ambiguity and Gender in the New Novel of Brazil and Spanish America
University of Iowa Press 1993; US$ 29.95In this first book-length study to compare the "new novels" of both Spanish America and Brazil, the authors deftly examine the differing perceptions of ambiguity as they apply to questions of gender and the participation of females and males in the establishment of Latin American narrative models. Their daring thesis: the Brazilian new... more...









