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Télécharger le livre :  Negotiating Feminisms
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Negotiating Feminisms


Eilidh Ab Hall


Negotiating Feminisms examines intergenerational feminism in Chicanx family life. It analyses literary representations of the ways that Chicanas negotiate feminisms in the family across generations, through the maintenance, contestation, and adaptation of traditional...

Parution : 2021-03-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing
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Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing


Andrea Fernández-García


This book is an in-depth study of Latina girls, portrayed in five coming-of-age narratives by using spaces and places as hermeneutical tools. The texts under study here are Julia Alvarez’s Return to Sender (2009), Norma E. Cantú’s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood...

Parution : 2019-12-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Decolonial Puerto Rican Women's Writings
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Decolonial Puerto Rican Women's Writings


Roberta Hurtado


This book explores representations of sentient-flesh — flesh that holds consciousness of being — in Puerto Rican women’s literature. It considers how different literary devices can participate in the decolonization of the flesh as it is...

Parution : 2019-06-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Latinx Literature Now
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Latinx Literature Now


Ricardo L. Ortiz


Latinx Literature Now engages with a diverse collection of works inLatinx literary studies, critical theory, and the philosophy of history, as well as a wide range ofLatinx literary texts, in order to offer readers an alternative model of howLatinx literary scholarship...

Parution : 2019-01-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Borges, Buddhism and World Literature
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Borges, Buddhism and World Literature


Dominique Jullien


This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves...

Parution : 2019-01-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Borges, Language and Reality
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Borges, Language and Reality


Alfonso J. García-Osuna


This book brings together the work of several scholars to shed light on the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges' complex relationship with language and reality. A critical assumption driving the work is that there is, as Jaime Alazraki has put it, 'a genuine...

Parution : 2018-11-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Postmodern Parody in Latin American Literature
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Postmodern Parody in Latin American Literature


Helene Carol Weldt-Basson


This book examines postmodern parody in Latin American literature as the intersection between ideology construction and deconstruction. Parody’s chief task is to deconstruct and criticize the ideologies behind previous texts. During this process, new ideologies are...

Parution : 2018-05-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Essays on Hilda Hilst
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Essays on Hilda Hilst


Bruno Carvalho , Adam Morris


This book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English. It brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America’s most inventive and innovative authors.  Nine essays by scholars and translators reflect...

Parution : 2018-05-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States
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Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States


Juanita Heredia


This collection of interviews demonstrates that U.S. Latinas/os of South American background have contributed pioneering work to U.S. Latina/o literature and culture in the twenty-first century. In conversation with twelve significant authors of South American descent...

Parution : 2018-03-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Mexican Crack Writers
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The Mexican Crack Writers


Héctor Jaimes


This book provides a rich and cutting-edge analysis of one of the most prominent literary groups in Latin America: the Mexican Crack Writers. The first part explores the history of the group and its relation to the Latin American literary tradition, while the second...

Parution : 2017-10-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures
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Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures


Tara Daly , Juan G. Ramos


Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures engages and problematizes concepts such as “decolonial” and “coloniality” to question methodologies in literary and cultural scholarship. While the eleven contributions produce diverse approaches to...

Parution : 2016-09-21
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Télécharger le livre :  (Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape
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(Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape


Cristina Herrera , Larissa M. Mercado-López


This book broadens the scope of Latina/o criticism to include both widely-read and understudied nineteenth through twenty-first century fictional works that engage in critical discussions of gender, race, sexuality, and identity. The essays in this collection do...

Parution : 2016-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography
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Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography


Juan Velasco


The first book length study of this genre, Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography facilitates new understandings of how people and cultures are displaced and reinvent themselves. Through the examination of visual arts and...

Parution : 2016-07-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Ethics and Literature in Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay, 1970-2000
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Ethics and Literature in Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay, 1970-2000


Carlos M. Amador


This book argues for a new reading of the political and ethical through the literatures of Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay from 1970-2000. Carlos Amador reads a series of examples from the last dictatorship and the current post-dictatorship period in the Southern Cone,...

Parution : 2016-05-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star
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Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star


I. López-Calvo


Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author,Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays,...

Parution : 2015-03-04
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Télécharger le livre :  New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative
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New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative


J. González , T. Robbins


Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social...

Parution : 2014-08-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship
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The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship


E. Rodriguez Y Gibson , E. Hernández


Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media.

Parution : 2014-08-20
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Télécharger le livre :  TransLatin Joyce
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TransLatin Joyce


B. Price , C. Salgado , J. Schwartz


TransLatin Joyce explores the circulation of James Joyce's work in the Ibero-American literary system. The essays address Joycean literary engagements in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba, using concepts from postcolonial translation studies, antimodernism,...

Parution : 2014-05-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Mexican Public Intellectuals
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Mexican Public Intellectuals


D. Castillo , S. Day


In Mexico, the participation of intellectuals in public life has always been extraordinary, and for many the price can be high. Highlighting prominent figures that have made incursions into issues such as elections, human rights, foreign policy, and the drug war, this...

Parution : 2014-04-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food
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Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food


M. Abarca


As Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature. Here, contributors propose food consciousness as a paradigm to examine the literary...

Parution : 2013-12-18
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