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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 …
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.
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Author Name: Kata Beilin Publisher: Tamesis: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Publication Year: 2004 A book of essays and literary conversations with Juan José Millás, José María Merino, Enrique Vila-Matas, Cristina Fernandez Cubas, Pedro Zarraluki, Ray Lóriga and Ricardo Piglia. The conversations are focused on the philosophical and ethical themes in the narrative of the 80s and …
Author Name: Ksenija Bilbija Publisher: Feminaria Publication Year: 2003 Ensayos sobre los libros Cambio de armas, Realidad nacional desde la cama, Novela negra con argentinos, La travesía y una conversación/entrevista exhaustiva con Luisa Valenzuela sobre su obra.
Link to Book Author Name: Ksenija Bilbija Publisher: Lima: Latinoamericana Editore Publication Year: 2001 This volume offers a gender sensitive reading of XX century Latin American narrative texts built around a metaphor of man-made, man-like creature: Horacio Quiroga “El hombre artificial”, Borges “Las ruínas circulares”, Felisberto Hernández “Las Hortensias”, José Donoso “Chatanooga Choochoo” and Rosario …
Link to Book Author Name: Rubén Medina Publisher: El Colegio de México Publication Year: 1999 La obra de Octavio Paz, múltiple en géneros y temas, que se nutre de experimentos poéticos durante más de seis décadas, es al mismo tiempo ensimismada y abierta al presente. En la poesía de Paz se encuentra la preocupación por …