Central South American category: 593 books
Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States
Interviews with Contemporary Writers
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This collection of interviews demonstrates that U.S. Latinas/os of South American background have contributed pioneering work to U.S. Latina/o literature and culture in the twenty-first century. In conversation with twelve significant authors of South American descent in the United States, Juanita...
Dividing the Isthmus
Central American Transnational Histories, Literatures, and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and military interventions in Central America. This event marked the inception of the struggle for economic, political, and cultural autonomy in Central America...
American Creoles
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relations...
Calypso Magnolia
The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by national...
Post-Conflict Central American Literature
Searching for Home and Longing to Belong
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This is the first book-length study to consider the development and significance of Central American post-conflict poetry and to study poets such as Luis Chaves, Marta Leonor González, Susana Reyes, and Juan Sobalvarro together with well-known short fiction writers Claudia Hernández, Jacinta Escudos,...
Other Roots, The
Wandering Origins in Roots of Brazil and the Impasses of Modernity in Ibero-America
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
First published in 1936, the classic work Roots of Brazil by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda presented an analysis of why and how a European culture flourished in a large tropical environment that was totally foreign to its traditions, and the manner and consequences of this development. In The Other Roots,...
by John Beverley, Marc Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
“This book began in what seemed like a counterfactual intuition . . . that what had been happening in Nicaraguan poetry was essential to the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution,” write John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman. “In our own postmodern North American culture, we are long past thinking of...
Buenas Noches, American Culture
Latina/o Aesthetics of Night
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Often treated like night itself—both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized—Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nineteenth century
Written by both established and emerging scholars, the essays in The Latino Nineteenth Century engage materials in Spanish and English...
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater
Upstaging Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative team, in the...
The Postcolonial Epic
From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book demonstrates the epic genre’s enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the ‘postcolonial epic’, ushered in by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott’s Caribbean masterpiece...
by Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat, James Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
In Understanding Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Chilean poet and novelist whose work brought global attention to Latin American literature in the 1960s unseen since the rise of García Márquez and magic realism. Best known for...
by Raymond Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2007
In this expertly crafted, richly detailed guide, Raymond Leslie Williams explores the cultural, political, and historical events that have shaped the Latin American and Caribbean novel since the end of World War II. In addition to works originally composed in English, Williams covers novels written...
Nossa and Nuestra América
Inter-American Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Is Brazil part of Latin America, or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues demonstrates, this question has been debated by Brazilian and Spanish American intellectuals alike since the early nineteenth century, though it has received limited scholarly attention...