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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...
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...
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...
Childhood in the Works of Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnikby Fiona J. Mackintosh
Boydell & Brewer 2003; US$ 85.00Two key figures of Argentine twentieth-century literature are brought together in this study which bridges generations and genres; cult poète maudit Alejandra Pizarnik and publicity-shy literary legend Silvina Ocampo. The point of comparison is their shared obsession with childhood, and the variety of ways in which this theme permeates both their literary works and their self-presentation.FIONA MACKINTOSH is lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. more...
Immanent Visitorby Jaime Saenz; Kent Johnson; Forrest Gander
University of California Press 2002; US$ 26.95Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète 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, insistently nocturnal in his artistic affairs, and secretive in his leadership of a select group of writers, Saenz mixed the mystical and baroque with the fantastic, the psychological, and the symbolic. In masterly translations by two poet-translators, Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander, Saenz's strange, innovative, and wildly lyrical poems reveal a literary legacy of fierce compassion and solidarity... more...
Latin American Fictionby Phillip Swanson
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 104.95This book introduces readers to the evolution of modern fiction in Spanish-speaking Latin America. Presents Latin American fiction in its cultural and political contexts. Introduces debates about how to read this literature. Combines an overview of the evolution of modern Latin American fiction with detailed studies of key texts. Discusses authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Isabel Allende. Covers nation-building narratives, ‘modernismo’, the New Novel, the Boom, the Post-Boom, Magical Realism, Hispanic fiction in the USA, and more. more...
Narrative Mutationsby Rudyard J. Alcocer
Routledge 2005; US$ 123.00In this book, Rudyard Alcocer offers a theory of Caribbean narrative, accounting for the complex interactions between scientific and literary discourses while expanding the horizons of narrative studies in general. more...