Literary Criticism : Caribbean & Latin American

A Queer Mother for the Nation weaves a nuanced understanding of how Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, cooperated with authority and fashioned herself as the figure of Motherhood in collaboration with the state. more...

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In this unprecedented study, Lúcia Sá approaches indigenous texts as creative works rather than source material. She offers a historical overview of the impact of these texts on mainstream Spanish-American and Brazilian literatures, detailing comparisons with native sources and making close analyses of major instances, such as Mário de Andrade’s classic Macunaima (1928) and Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller (1986). more...

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Proposes a Latin American feminist criticism that is both regionally specific and in current dialogue with North American and European feminist practices. more...

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Driven by such diverse advances as the Human Genome Project and the explosion of the World Wide Web, and also by the threat of human-inspired disasters such as global warming, the field of science and literature studies is currently undergoing an unprecedented expansion. The relations between science and literature have been and continue to be central to understanding Hispanic civilization and culture.    In spite of this, "Science, Literature, and Film in the Spanish-Speaking World" is the first and only book to treat this new and dynamic field from an Hispanic perspective.  This unique volume opens the door to an entirely new focus in the study of Hispanic literature and culture. more...

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Modernity in Spanish America has been viewed by a 'postmodern' cultural studies as a condition of the first half of the twentieth century whose major political, philosophical and cultural assumptions the region would do well to leave behind. This book presents an argument that one cannot easily take leave of modernity. more...

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