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Akademia Cartonera: A Primer of Latin American Cartonera Publishers

Link to Book Author Name: Ksenija Bilbija Publisher: Madison: Parallel Press University of Wisconsin Library Publication Year: 2009 A compilation of manifestoes of the first wave of cartonera publishers, initiative that started with the foundation of argentine Eloísa Cartonera in 2003. The volume contains a CD component with academic research done on cartonera publishing in …

El teatro de Argentina y Chile: Globalización, resistencia y desencanto

Author Name: Paola Hernández Publisher: Corregidor Publication Year: 2009 Este libro examina los efectos de la globalización y la aplicación del modelo económico neoliberal de las últimas décadas del siglo XX y comienzos del XXI a través de diversas obras teatrales de Argentina y Chile. El género teatral, sus textos, su estética, sus puestas en …

Cartografías del destierro: entorno a la poesía de Juan Gelman y Luisa Futoransky

Author Name: Sarli E. Mercado Publication Year: 2008 En un libro indispensable para entender las relaciones entre la poesía de Gelman y Futoransky, Sarli Mercado nos da mucho más que un estudio de sus obras. Su lectura ilumina el registro poético del exilio argentino, formula preguntas certeras sobre violencia, bilingüismo y desplazamientos geográficos y es, …

Imaginary Geographies in Portuguese and Lusophone-African Literature: Narratives of Discovery and Empire

Link to Book Author Name: Luís Maduereira Publisher: Mellen Press Publication Year: 2007 Imaginary Geographies interrogates a series of utopian projections that have informed Portuguese and Luso-African letters and culture since the Renaissance. Concentrating on the three crucial historical moments, Portugal’s precarious 16th-century”empire,” the decolonization process in the mid-1970s, and the post-independence in Africa, it …

Vulnerable States: Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction

Author Name: Guillermina De Ferrari Publisher: The University of Virginia Press Publication Year: 2007 This book analyzes the body in comparative Caribbean fiction. It argues that the Caribbean subject is vulnerable to a practice of transparency in protocols of health and development, and other ascriptions of value whose “truth” are generated from without. Invoking its …

Del infierno al cuerpo; la otredad en la narrativa y en el cine español contemporáneo (From Hell to the Body; Otherness in Spanish Contemporary Narrative and Film

Author Name: Kata Beilin Publisher: Madrid: Libertarias Publication Year: 2007 Del infierno al cuerpo analyzes the ethical and political consequences of the process of othering in in Spanish Modern literature, film and culture.

Cannibal Modernities: Postcoloniality and the Avant-garde in Brazilian and Caribbean Literature

Author Name: Luís Madureira Publisher: University of Virginia Press Publication Year: 2005 Cannibal Modernities is the first postcolonial study to show how the “peripheral” replications of modernity in contemporary Caribbean and Latin American texts differ crucially from their European models. It argues that postcoloniality emerges precisely in New World avant-garde movements that have been designated …

The Art of Truth-Telling About Authoritarian Rule

Link to Book Author Name: Ksenija Bilbija Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Publication Year: 2005 How do individuals begin to speak about a political past that is too horrible for words? How is truth best voiced in a society moving out of authoritarianism? This generously illustrated volume examines the creation of stories, accounts, images, songs, …

La poesía del nosotros: Jaime Gil de Biedma y la secuencia lírica modern

Link to Book Author Name: Juan F. Egea Publisher: Visor Libros Publication Year: 2004 Este libro pretende dar respuesta a dos de las cuestiones esenciales en poesía lírica en las que la de Gil de Biedma se adentran como en dos de las condiciones de existencia del género especialmente visibles después de la modernidad: por …

Tentative Transgressions: Homosexuality, AIDS, and the Theater in Brazil

Link to Book Author Name: Severino J. Albuquerque Publisher: Madison: University of Wisconsin Press Publication Year: 2004 Brazilian theater has been a privileged stage for the playing out of divergent approaches to difference and transgression, never more so than during the AIDS crisis. Tentative Transgressions illustrates how theater became an invaluable player in the effort …