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  • Bandit Narratives in Latin America

    From Villa to Chávez

    Serier Bog 74 - Illuminations
    Bandits seem ubiquitous in Latin American culture. Even contemporary actors of violence are framed by narratives that harken back to old images of the rural bandit, either to legitimize or delegitimize violence, or to intervene in larger conflicts within or between nation-states.However, the bandit seems to escape a straightforward definition, since the same label can apply to the leader of ... Læs mere

    485,00 kr.

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  • The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

    Serier serie New Accents
    The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture ... Læs mere

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  • Roberto Bolaño's Fiction

    An Expanding Universe

    af Chris Andrews ...
    Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the ... Læs mere

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  • Becoming Reinaldo Arenas

    Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution

    Becoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame. Yet as a political dissident and an openly gay man, Arenas also experienced discrimination and persecution; he produced much of his work amid political controversy and precarious living conditions. In ... Læs mere

    217,74 kr.

  • Searching for Mr. Chin

    Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature

    What do twentieth-century fictional images of the Chinese reveal about the construction of nationhood in the former West Indian colonies? In her groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Searching for Mr. Chin, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy seeks to map and understand a cultural process of identity formation: “Chineseness” in the West Indies.Reading behind the stereotypical image of the Chinese in the West ... Læs mere

    316,99 kr.

  • The Sound of Culture

    Diaspora and Black Technopoetics

    The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian ... Læs mere

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  • Collecting from the Margins

    Material Culture in a Latin American Context

    From the cabinets of wonderof the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and institutional, has been instrumental in the consolidation of modern notions of the individual and of the nation, and numerous studies have discussed its complex ... Læs mere

    323,46 kr.

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel

    Redigeret af Efraín Kristal ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here ... Læs mere

    360,80 kr.

  • After Translation

    The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic

    Translation—from both a theoretical and a practical point of view—articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean.After Translation examines from a transnational perspective the various ways in which translation facilitates ... Læs mere

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  • Carlos Fuentes

    A Critical View

    Redigeret af Robert Brody, Charles Rossman ...
    Serier serie Texas Pan American Series
    Carlos Fuentes is a master of modern world literature. With the translation of his major works into English and other languages, his reputation has surpassed the boundaries of his native Mexico and of Hispanic literature and has become international. Now each new novel stimulates popular and scholarly reviews in periodicals from Mexico City and Buenos Aires to Paris and New York.Carlos Fuentes: A ... Læs mere

    218,13 kr.

  • Theorizing a Colonial Caribbean-Atlantic Imaginary

    Sugar and Obeah

    Serier serie Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies
    This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points marking respectively the origins and demise of slavocratic systems in the West Indies. Focusing on Richard Ligon’s History of Barbados (1657) and Matthew ‘Monk’ Lewis’ Journal of a West India Proprietor ... Læs mere

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  • Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature

    Remitting the Text

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    Serier serie Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural study responds to the general trend in migration discourse that presents the Caribbean experience as unidirectional and uniform across the geographical spaces of home and diaspora. She argues that ... Læs mere

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