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  • Audiolibro

    Found Guilty

    Integrale

    27 minuti

    Josiah Flynt Willard was an American sociologist and author. After several years of experience as a vagrant, he wrote fiction and nonfiction as a kind of expert on tramps and tramping. His further works dealing with the lower and criminal classes include “Found Guilty,” part of a collection of stories written in collaboration with Francis Walton, an American author and attorney. ... Altre info

    5,31 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • Border Crossings

    A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers

    Literature has no geographical border and can so easily relocate and migrate into our literary imagination. The only real difficulty facing such crossings is the ever-present language barriers that have for too long limited the ways in which the Caribbean is read, perceived and interpreted. What is distinctive about Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers is its ... Altre info

    8,92 €

  • Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers

    This book is distinctive by its trilingual nature; the short stories by Caribbean women writers appear in English, French, Spanish. ... Altre info

    8,10 €

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    Serie series Library of Latin America
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  • Exploring the Palace of the Peacock: Essays on Wilson Harris

    Collection of essays including Joyce Adler's previously unpublished essay on Harris's cross-cultural dialogue with Melville, and a substantial autobiographical essay by Wilson Harris. ... Altre info

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  • The Art of Transition

    Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis

    Serie series Latin America Otherwise
    The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what is real, Francine Masiello interprets the culture of this period as an art of transition, referring ... Altre info

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  • Selected Writings of Andrés Bello

    Serie series Library of Latin America
    Andrés Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major role in shaping the national identities of newly independent Latin American countries. He held several key government positions, authored Chile's ... Altre info

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  • Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

    These wide-ranging conversations have an exceptionally open and intimate tone, giving us a personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature.Interviewer Fernando Sorrentino, an Argentinian writer and anthologist, is endowed with literary acumen, sensitivity, urbanity, and an encyclopedic memory of Jorge Luis Borges' work (in his prologue, Borges jokes that ... Altre info

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  • Prospero's Daughter

    The Prose of Rosario Castellanos

    Serie series Texas Pan American Series
    A member of Mexico's privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America's most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O'Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos' prose writings, focusing specifically on how Castellanos' experiences as a Mexican woman led her to an ethic of solidarity with the ... Altre info

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  • Conquest of the New Word

    Experimental Fiction and Translation in the Americas

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    Serie series Texas Pan American Series
    Latin American fiction won great acclaim in the United States during the 1960s, when many North American writers and critics felt that our national writing had reached a low ebb. In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne argues that the North American reception of the "boom" in Latin American fiction distorted the historical grounding of this writing, erroneously ... Altre info

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  • Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone

    The Jewish presence in Latin America is a recent chapter in Jewish history that has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores the complexity of Jewish identity in Latin America through the fictional Jewish characters of five novels written by Jewish authors from the Southern Cone: Argentina, Brazil, ... Altre info

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  • Memoir

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    Memoir is Rosario Ferré’s account of her life both as a writer and as a member of a family at the center of the economic and political history of Puerto Rico during the American Century, one hundred years of territorial “non-incorporation” into the United States. The autobiography tells the story of Ferré’s transformation from the daughter of a privileged family into a celebrated novelist, poet, ... Altre info

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