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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 18.95In this exhaustive and enlightening biography?nearly two decades in the making?Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century?s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez. Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, from his upbringing in backwater Columbia and early journalism... more...
Jorge Luis Borges
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 30.00He read and wrote with the greatest of passions. And Jorge Luis Borges, the greatest of Argentine writers, created, through a 60-year-long career, one of the significant and enduring literary legacies of any writer of the 20th century. The reach of his poetry, his stories, and his essays was global. more...
Cuba and the Tempest
The University of North Carolina Press 2006; US$ 28.95In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established himself in London; Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2005),... more...
Apocryphal Lorca
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 39.00Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) had enormous impact on the generation of American poets who came of age during the cold war, from Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg to Robert Creeley and Jerome Rothenberg. In large numbers, these poets have not only translated his works, but written imitations, parodies, and pastiches—along with... more...
Octavio Paz
Reaktion Books 2008; US$ 20.95In Octavio Paz, Nicholas Caistor takes a fresh look at Paz?s exquisite poetry and fascinating life. more...
Transatlantic Translations
Reaktion Books 2006; US$ 45.00Spanning literatures from the early modern period to the present day, the essays in Transatlantic Translations demonstrate the rich history of shared language between old and new worlds. more...
Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 133.00This book takes a new approach to travel writing about Latin America by examining ?domestic? journey narratives that have been produced by travellers from the continent itself and largely in Spanish. Historically, travel writing about Latin America has been written primarily from the perspective of the foreign, often European, traveller. As such,... more...
Patagoniens verflochtene Erzählwelten
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 112.00The end of the world, wide open spaces, wind, gigantic dimensions and weird characters?these are widespread associations with the southernmost region of the American continent. At the same time, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego have fascinated travellers and writers from time immemorial. However, the wildly romantic imaginations of the adventurers are... more...
Las formas del vacío
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 92.40De libro en libro, a lo largo de una producción poética de medio siglo, el poeta argentino Juan Gelman (1930-), ganador del Premio Cervantes 2007 y uno de los mayores poetas hispanoamericanos vivos, explora nuevas vías formales para dar cuenta de su experiencia personal e histórica, de su recreación incesante de la tradición... more...
Saberes y sabores en México y el Caribe
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 92.30Saberes y sabores en México y el Caribe es fruto del proyecto de investigación Los contextos culinarios en la literatura del Caribe hispano y de México del siglo XVI al siglo XX. Presenta un análisis de textos de diferentes épocas desde un enfoq more...









