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  • Poetry in Pieces

    César Vallejo and Lyric Modernity

    by Michelle Clayton ...
    Series Book 4 - FlashPoints
    Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892–1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings—Peru and Paris—which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life; ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

    by Sabine Köllmann ...
    This companion to the work of Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa traces his fictional and non-fictional writing throughout the different phases of a career spanning more than fifty years. His lifelong dedication to literature goes hand in hand with his commitment as a public intellectual, a role that frequently involves him in controversy. Against the backdrop of Vargas Llosa's political ... Read more

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  • Queer Rebels

    Rewriting Literary Traditions in Contemporary Spanish Novels

    by Łukasz Smuga ...
    Translated by Patrycja Poniatowska ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
    Queer Rebels is a study of gay narrative writings published in Spain at the turn of the 20th century. The book scrutinises the ways in which the literary production of contemporary Spanish gay authors – José Luis de Juan, Luis G. Martín, Juan Gil-Albert, Juan Goytisolo, Eduardo Mendicutti, Luis Antonio de Villena and Álvaro Pombo – engages with homophobic and homophile discourses, as well as with ... Read more

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  • The Writing of Elena Poniatowska

    Engaging Dialogues

    by Beth E. Jörgensen ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Elena Poniatowska is one of Latin America's most distinguished and innovative living writers. Advocacy of women and the poor in their struggle for social and economic justice, denunciation of the repression of that struggle, and a tendency to blur the boundaries between conventional literary forms characterize her writing practice.Asserting that Poniatowska's writing has been uniquely shaped by ... Read more

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  • Beyond Bolaño

    The Global Latin American Novel

    by Héctor Hoyos ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also ... Read more

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  • Adolfo Bioy Casares

    Borges, Fiction and Art

    Edited by Karl Posso ...
    Series Book 1 - Iberian and Latin American Studies
    Best known as Jorge Luis Borges's right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic fiction, are now ripe for reassessment. This volume looks at Bioy's extensive oeuvre which offers many surprising reflections on the twentieth century s cultural, social and political transformations, ... Read more

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  • Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

    by Karl Erik Schollhammer ...
    This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic, ethical, and ... Read more

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  • Collecting from the Margins

    Material Culture in a Latin American Context

    by María Mercedes Andrade, Kelly Austin, Shelley Garrigan, Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, Fernando Pérez, Andrew Reynolds, Javier Uriarte, Olga Vilella ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Photopoetics at Tlatelolco

    Afterimages of Mexico, 1968

    by Samuel Steinberg ...
    Series series Border Hispanisms
    In the months leading up to the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, students took to the streets, calling for greater democratization and decrying crackdowns on political resistance by the ruling PRI party. During a mass meeting held at the Plaza of the Three Cultures in the Tlatelolco neighborhood, paramilitary forces opened fire on the gathering. The death toll from the massacre remains a ... Read more

    PHP1,607.89

  • Borges and the Politics of Form

    by Jose Eduardo Gonzalez ...
    Series series Latin American Studies
    Jorge Luis Borges-one of the most important Latin American writers-has also attained considerable international stature, and his work is commonly cited in a wide array of scholarship on contemporary fiction. Partly as a consequence of Borges' international identity, and partly because of a long-standing view in Borges criticism that his writing is principally concerned with abstract ideas, critics ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Cursilería

    Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain

    by Noël Valis ...
    Not easily translated, the Spanish terms cursi and cursilería refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. Like "kitsch," cursi evokes the idea of bad taste, but it also suggests one who has pretensions of refinement and elegance without possessing them. In The Culture of Cursilería, Noël Valis examines the social meanings of cursi, viewing it as ... Read more

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  • Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel

    by Paul R. McAleer ...
    An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the utopian impulse. This book analyses these functions of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Fernando Vallejo and Jaime Bayly. ... Read more

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