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Facundoby Domingo Faustino Sarmiento; Roberto González Echevarría; Kathleen Ross
University of California Press 2003; US$ 19.95A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento?s Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published, this foundational text appears here for the first time in its entirety. An educator and writer, Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. His Facundo is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835?1852). The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today?questions regarding the... more...
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubasby Joaquim Maria Machado; Gregory Rabassa; Enylton de Sa Rego; Gilberto Pinheiro Passos
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 8.95Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is considered the pre-eminent writer of Brazil. This text is a translation of his memoirs. more...
Latin American Women Dramatistsby Catherine Larson; Margarita Vargas
Indiana University Press 1999; US$ 15.95"The book highlights the many possibilities of the innovative work of these dramatists, and this will, it is to be hoped, help the editors to achieve one of their other key goals: productions of the plays in English." -- Times Literary Supplement "This thoughtfully crafted book with its insightful and informative studies elucidates an overlooked, essential component of the Latin American literary canon." -- Choice Contributors discuss 15 works of Latin-American playwrights, delineate the artistic lives of women dramatists of the last half of the twentieth century -- from countries as diverse as Argentina, Brazil,... more...
The Ironic Apocalypse in the Novels of Leopoldo Marechalby Norman Cheadle
Boydell & Brewer 2000; US$ 45.00Leopoldo Marechal has become a chosen precursor of many contemporary Argentine writers, cineastes, and intellectuals, and so his novels - universally recognized but rarely studied - demand treatment from a contemporary critical sensibility. This study departs from the line of criticism that reads Marechal as a Christian apologist, arguing instead that Marechal's 'metaphysical' novels are really metafictional, ludic exercises informed by ironic scepticism. more...
Cervantes' Don Quixoteby Marianne Sturman
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on Don Quixote looks into the story of a man who seeks truth and justice with an internal vision so strong as to see through the illusion of external appearances. Following the journey of a gentle (and mad) knight, this study guide provides summaries and commentaries for each chapter within this popular — and long — novel. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Biographical sketch and background of the author, Cervantes... more...
Garcia Marquez' 100 Years of Solitudeby Carl Senna
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999; US$ 5.99This history of a family is an amalgamation of Garcia Marquez's shorter fiction, American fiction, biblical parables, and quixotic experiences of his own unique life story. His is a community crowded with people and personal narratives, confusion, and progressive decline. The novel is a journey through life, caught on paper, so real that you'll swear you can smell it. more...
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literatureby Daniel Balderston; Mike Gonzalez
Routledge 2004; US$ 95.00Written by a team of international contributors this work contains more than 200 entries on all aspects of literature. It will be invaluable for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature and the Spanish/Portuguese languages. more...
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literatureby Verity Smith
Fitzroy Dearborn 1997; US$ 230.00A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field. more...
The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fictionby Nicholas White; Michael Sheringham
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 40.00Nicholas White examines how novels represent the crisis in 'family values' in late nineteenth-century France. A wide cultural perspective informs close readings of tales of adultery, illegitimacy, incest and divorce by popular novelists such as Zola and Maupassant as well as by hitherto neglected figures of the period. more...
César Vallejo: Autógrafos olvidadosby Juan Fló; Stephen M. Hart
Boydell & Brewer 2003; US$ 80.00The reputation of César Vallejo (1892-1938) rests on his complex, unclassifiable poetry written from the viewpoint of a committed Marxist. He spent his early, formative, years in Peru, where his sympathy for the exploited peasantry inspired both his poetry and his politics, but in 1923 went to live in Paris (where he knew Artaud, Picasso and Cocteau). more...