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Latin American Women Dramatists
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 ... more...
The Ironic Apocalypse in the Novels of Leopoldo Marechal
Boydell & Brewer 2000; US$ 90.00Leopoldo 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... more...
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 110.00The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900?2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team... more...
Encyclopaedia of Latin American Literature
Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 245.00A 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...
Immanent Visitor
University of California Press 2002; US$ 29.95Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A počte maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, a denizen of slum taverns, unashamedly bisexual,... more...
Pot Pourri
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 8.95Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Emile Zola to Argentinean literature in the late nineteenth century. The work of Cambaceres, a precursor to the contemporary Argentinean novel, is crucial for an understanding of the period of consolidation of Argentina, the formation of a national identity, and especially for the... 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...
The Burden of Modernity
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 94.99An interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America which argues that Spanish American cultural production is marked by an internal rhetoric crisis that resulted from the adoption of discourses regarded as modern in historical and economic circumstances that are, in fact, the negation of modernity. more...
Rousseau's Legacy
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 119.99This study focuses on the emergence, with Jean Jacques Rousseau, of a new and influential type of writer who specialized in revolutionary, sociopolitical critique. Close readings of the work of a number of major French writers are described. more...
Novels of Fernando del Paso, The
UPF 2000; US$ 59.95''Provides the reader with a clear understanding of art in general, and prose fiction in particular, in Mexico and the Western world in our century. [The author?s] commentaries on the modern and the postmodern are insightful, refreshing, and informative. more...









