Bucknell University Press: 205 books
by Vidyan Ravinthiran
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book approaches, for the first time, Bishop’s work in multiple genres (her prose-like verse, her literary prose, her prose poems, and her letter prose) as a stylistic whole. Tapping into recent work on literature as a form of cognition, it also reinvigorates the long-neglected study of prose...
Ambivalent Desires
Representations of Modernity and Private Life in Colombia (1890s-1950s)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Ambivalent Desires: Representations of Modernity and Private Life in Colombia (1890s-1950s) is a literary and cultural study of the reception of modernity in Colombia. Unlike previous studies of Latin American modernization, which have usually focused on the public aspect of the process, this book...
Modernity's Metonyms
Figuring Time in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Modernity's Metonyms considers the representation of temporal frameworks in stories by the nineteenth-century Spanish authors, Leopoldo Alas and Antonio Ros de Olano. Adopting a metonymic approach_exploring the reiteration of specific associations across a range of disciplines, from literature, philosophy,...
Global Tangos
Travels in the Transnational Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary argues against the hackneyed rose-in-mouth clichés of Argentine tango, demonstrating how the dance may be used as a way to understand transformations around the world that have taken place as a result of two defining features of globalization:...
The Changing Face of Motherhood in Spain
The Social Construction of Maternity in the Works of Lucía Etxebarria
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This book investigates the perceptions of motherhood in Spanish author Lucía Etxebarria’s fiction and offers views of the importance of motherhood in society. Traditional expectations for women as mothers persist despite the fact that they no longer match Spain’s cultural and economic reality....
Representing Queer and Transgender Identity
Fluid Bodies in the Hispanic Caribbean and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Fluid Bodies traces the intersections of global movement with transgender and queer identities from authors and artists of the Hispanic Caribbean. Utilizing the theme of fluidity and travel, Fluid Bodies analyzes novels, graphic novels, theatre, and performance art. These works demonstrate how transgender...
by Scott Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Juan Luis Martínez’s Philosophical Poetics is an interdisciplinary study of collage/assemblage art and poetry by the most infamous and hermetic member of the Chilean neo-avant-garde literary scene. This comprehensive study of cult figure Juan Luis Martínez (1942–1993) takes a comparative approach...
Darwinism in Argentina
Major Texts (1845-1909)
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Darwinism in Argentina: Major Texts (1845-1909) brings together essays, letters, short-stories, and public lectures by travelers, scientists, writers, and politicians about Darwin and the theory of evolution in nineteenth century Argentina. This selection of texts provides a thorough overview of the...
Beyond Civilization and Barbarism
Culture and Politics in Postrevolutionary Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines how various cultural forms promoted competing political projects in Argentina during the decades following independence from Spain. This turbulent period has long been characterized as a struggle between two irreconcilable forces: the dictatorship of Juan...
by Kathryn M. Mayers
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The process of shaping and asserting cultural identity in viceregal Spanish America occurred as much through the medium of pictures as through the medium of writing. Focused on writing that references visual texts (ekphrasis), Visions of Empire in Colonial Spanish American Ekphrastic Writing examines...
Pariah in the Desert
The Heroic and the Monstrous in Horacio Quiroga
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This is the first book in English on Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay 1878-Argentina 1937), a canonical author whose works are read by all advanced students of Spanish in the US and many other countries. The study examines Quiroga’s work through the theoretical lens of the heroic—a lens elaborated in...
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,...
José Carlos Mariátegui’s Unfinished Revolution
Politics, Poetics, and Change in 1920s Peru
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Comprising six full-length chapters, a comprehensive Introduction and Conclusion, this monograph is extensive in scale and scope. It provides fresh readings of key writings of Mariátegui, one of Latin America’s most important and revolutionary political, cultural and aesthetic theorists, through...
Rural Revisions of Golden Age Drama
Performance of History, Production of Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
This work focuses on rural community versions of Spanish Early Modern Theatre and deals with cultural heritage and the contemporary impact of Golden Age theatre on local rural communities. To this end, I examine the burgeoning of annual rural Golden Age theatre festivals that generate site-centered,...