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Ambiguity and Gender in the New Novel of Brazil and Spanish America: A Comparative Assessment
by Earl E. Fitz  About the Author Judith Payne is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Victoria. Earl Fitz is a professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and comparative literature at Vanderbilt University....
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The Will to Heal: Psychological Recovery in the Novels of Latina Writers
by Felicia Fahey Publisher Comments For the past three decades, Latin American and Latina women writers have used autobiography, fiction, and a blend of the two genres to address the psychological struggle to heal from both personal and political traumas. Felicia Fahey focuses on six...
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If This Be Treason (06 Edition)
by Rabassa Publisher Comments A "Los Angeles Times" Favorite Book of the Year for 2005. <BR>Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and Julio Cortazar's "Hopscotch" have helped make...
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The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by Idelber Avelar Publisher Comments "This is a book of superior scholarship, providing an original reading of texts that are of increasing interest to students and critics."--Jean Franco, Columbia University <BR> "Avelar delivers a complex account of postdictatorship society...
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Nightmares of the Lettered City : Banditry and Literature in Latin America, 1816-1929 (07 Edition)
by Juan Pablo Dabove Publisher Comments Nightmares of the Lettered City presents an original study of the popular theme of banditry in works of literature, essays, poetry, and drama, and banditry's pivotal role during the conceptualization and formation of the Latin American nation-state. Juan...
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Sacred Eroticism: George Bataille and Pierre Klossowski in the Latin American Erotic Novel (Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory)
by Juan Carlos Ubilluz Synopsis Sacred Eroticism addresses a neglected chapter in Latin American literature, namely, the influence of Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski's atheist mysticism in the Latin American erotic novel of the twentieth century. Combining a Lacanian analytical...
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Bad Language, Naked Ladies -PB
by Anne Rubenstein Publisher Comments In Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Anne Rubenstein examines how comic books--which were overwhelmingly popular but extremely controversial in post-revolutionary Mexico--played an important role in the development of a stable,...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel
by Efrain Kristal Publisher Comments A stimulating collection of new essays on the development of the novel in Latin America....
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Puerto Rican Literature: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources
by David Willia Foster Review Foster's formula for bibliographies of Latin American literature is successful because it provides easy access to a cultural area not widely covered elsewhere....This especially useful bibliography lists secondary sources of critical material on more...
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The Writer's Experience: Essays on Self and Circumstance in the Hispanic Literatures
by Peter Earle Synopsis These essays reflect a view admittedly skeptical of the movements,...
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Negotiated Self: The Dynamics of Identity in Francophone Caribbean Narrative
by Anne Malena Book News Annotation Using a multifaceted approach, Malena (French and translation, U. of Alberta-Edmonton) explores questions of identity in novels by Danny Bebel-Gisler, Maryse Conde, and Emile Olivier. She finds that identity is a constantly changing semiotic process...
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Some Write to the Future: Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction
by Ariel Dorfman Publisher Comments Formerly exiled Chilean author Ariel Dorfman, one of Latin America's greatest writers and a major literary figure of the twentieth century, is known for such critically acclaimed works as the novel Widows and the play Death and the Maiden, A master of...
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Gay and lesbian themes in Latin American writing
by David Willia Foster Book News Annotation Drawing from more than two dozen texts, Foster (Spanish, Arizona State U.) offers significant observations about the relationship between homosexuality and society in different Latin American countries and time periods. Paper edition (unseen), $11.95....
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Hispanic Issues #13: Bodies and Biases: Sexualities in Hispanic Cultures and Literatures
by David Willia Foster Publisher Comments Looking at a wide range of cultural practices and artifacts, including television, popular music, and pornography, Bodies and Biases addresses representations of sexual behavior and collective identity, homosexuality, and ideologies of gender in...
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Textual Confrontations: Comparative Readings in Latin American Literature
by Alfred J Macadam Publisher Comments In this masterful experiment in truly comparative literary criticism, Alfred J. Mac Adam establishes Latin America's place in the Western literary tradition. By juxtaposing Latin American and Anglo-American texts, he shows how Latin American literature...
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Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988: Beyond the Pyramid (Texas Pan American Series)
by Cynthia Steele Synopsis The student massacre at Tlatelolco in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, marked the beginning of an era of rapid social change in Mexico. In this illuminating study, Cynthia Steele explores how the writers of the next two decades responded to the massacre...
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Representation of Slavery in Cuban Fiction
by Lorna Vale Williams Book News Annotation Williams examines the work of six antislavery writers from 19th- century Cuba. Recognizing that these slave narratives represent the fledgling articulations of an emerging black voice, as well as lay the foundations for 20th-century Afro-Hispanic...
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Listening to the People's Voice: Erudite & Popular Literature in North East Brazil
by Mark Dinneen Book News Annotation Expands a field of study that has been generally limited to Europe and the US by applying it to a lesser known literature. Dineern (Latin American literature and cultural studies, U. of Southampton, England) finds that the crucial differences between...
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Rereading the Spanish American Essay: Translations of 19th & 20th Century Women's Essays
by Doris Meyer Publisher Comments Latin American intellectual history is largely founded on essayistic writing. Women's essays have always formed a part of this rich tradition, yet they have seldom received the respect they merit and are often omitted entirely from anthologies. This...
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Whispers from the Caribbean: I Going Away, I Going Home
by Wilfred Cartey Book News Annotation A critical review of the works of Caribbean novelists. Published by the Center for Afro-American Studies, UCLA. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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