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Groundless Noir
Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction
Av Erik Larson
Häftad, 2026
505 kr
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This philosophical study of Latin American noir fiction poses the question, What if precarity and uncertainty aren't just themes of the genre but ways of being in the world? Emerging from a region immersed in violence, trauma, and political instability, the novela negra reveals not just …
Savage Library of Roberto Bolaño
Radical Readings
Av Benjamin Loy
Häftad, 2026
485 kr
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Visionary Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño was known for his darkly poetic prose and postmodern narratives, exemplified in his novel The Savage Detectives. His work is also deeply infused with references to the Western literary canon—from French and Spanish baroque texts to American and German …
On the Dark Side of the Archive
Nation and Literature in Spanish America at the Turn of the Century
Av Juan Carlos González Espitia
Inbunden, 2009
1466 kr
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On the Dark Side of the Archive examines nineteenth-century nation building through narratives that are not part of the romantic or realist traditions, specifically those associated with the critique of traditional ideas often portrayed in Decadentism and modernismo. The study focuses on the …
Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones
Illuminating Gender and Nation
Inbunden, 2012
1385 kr
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Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps the …
Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones
Illuminating Gender and Nation
E-bok, 2012
1524 kr
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Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps the …
Counterfeit Politics
Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas
Av David Kelman
Inbunden, 2012
1547 kr
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In Counterfeit Politics, David Kelman reassesses the political significance of conspiracy theory. Traditionally, political theory has sought to banish the “paranoid style” from the “proper” domain of politics. But if conspiracy theory lies outside the sphere of legitimate politics, why do these …
Counterfeit Politics
Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas
Av David Kelman
E-bok, 2012
896 kr
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In Counterfeit Politics, David Kelman reassesses the political significance of conspiracy theory. Traditionally, political theory has sought to banish the “paranoid style” from the “proper” domain of politics. But if conspiracy theory lies outside the sphere of legitimate politics, why do these …
Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture
Modernismo's Unstoppable Presses
Inbunden, 2012
1547 kr
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This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the crónica genre to advance their literary preoccupations. Through a variety of modernista writers, including José Martí, Amado Nervo, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Rubén …
Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture
Modernismo'S Unstoppable Presses
E-bok, 2012
1666 kr
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This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the crónica genre to advance their literary preoccupations. Through a variety of modernista writers, including José Martí, Amado Nervo, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Rubén …
Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams
Inbunden, 2012
1790 kr
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Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams uses Elena Garro’s eccentric life and work as a lens through which to examine mid-twentieth-century Mexican intellectuals' desire to reconcile mexicanidad with modernidad. The famously scandalous first wife of Nobel Prize winner poet Octavio Paz, and an …
Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams
E-bok, 2012
986 kr
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Elena Garro and Mexico''s Modern Dreams uses Elena Garro’s eccentric life and work as a lens through which to examine mid-twentieth-century Mexican intellectuals'' desire to reconcile mexicanidad with modernidad. The famously scandalous first wife of Nobel Prize winner poet Octavio Paz, and an …
Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
European Women Pilgrims
E-bok, 2013
896 kr
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Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims retraces the steps of five intrepid “lady travelers” who ventured into the geography of the New World—Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean—at a crucial historical juncture, the period of political …
Beyond Civilization and Barbarism
Culture and Politics in Postrevolutionary Argentina
Inbunden, 2013
1385 kr
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Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines how various cultural forms promoted competing political projects in Argentina during the decades following independence from Spain. This turbulent period has long been characterized as a struggle between two irreconcilable forces: the dictatorship of Juan …
Beyond Civilization and Barbarism
Culture and Politics in Postrevolutionary Argentina
E-bok, 2013
756 kr
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Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines how various cultural forms promoted competing political projects in Argentina during the decades following independence from Spain. This turbulent period has long been characterized as a struggle between two irreconcilable forces: the dictatorship of Juan …
Public Intellectuals and Nation Building in the Iberian Peninsula, 1900–1925
The Alchemy of Identity
Inbunden, 2014
1603 kr
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This book provides a detailed analysis of the core concepts of national identity articulated by Iberian writers during the period between 1900 and 1925. It is centered on four "pedagogical" essays written in these decades previous to the onset of authoritarian dictatorships in Spain and Portugal, …
Public Intellectuals and Nation Building in the Iberian Peninsula, 1900–1925
The Alchemy of Identity
E-bok, 2014
1847 kr
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This book provides a detailed analysis of the core concepts of national identity articulated by Iberian writers during the period between 1900 and 1925. It is centered on four "pedagogical" essays written in these decades previous to the onset of authoritarian dictatorships in Spain and Portugal, …
Counterfeit Politics
Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas
Av David Kelman
Häftad, 2015
818 kr
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In Counterfeit Politics, David Kelman reassesses the political significance of conspiracy theory. Traditionally, political theory has sought to banish the “paranoid style” from the “proper” domain of politics. But if conspiracy theory lies outside the sphere of legitimate politics, why do these …
Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams
Häftad, 2014
899 kr
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Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams uses Elena Garro’s eccentric life and work as a lens through which to examine mid-twentieth-century Mexican intellectuals' desire to reconcile mexicanidad with modernidad. The famously scandalous first wife of Nobel Prize winner poet Octavio Paz, and an …
Machado de Assis and Female Characterization
The Novels
Av Earl E. Fitz
Inbunden, 2014
1628 kr
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This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that Machado had a particular interest in female characterization and that his fictional women became increasingly sophisticated and complex as he matured and …
Machado de Assis and Female Characterization
The Novels
Av Earl E. Fitz
E-bok, 2014
772 kr
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This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that Machado had a particular interest in female characterization and that his fictional women became increasingly sophisticated and complex as he matured and …
Machado de Assis and Female Characterization
The Novels
Av Earl E. Fitz
Häftad, 2016
721 kr
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This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that Machado had a particular interest in female characterization and that his fictional women became increasingly sophisticated and complex as he matured and …
Macho Ethics
Masculinity and Self-Representation in Latino-Caribbean Narrative
Av Jason Cortés
Inbunden, 2014
1466 kr
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Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous one—a fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances. Because of its opacity and instability, masculinity, like more recognizable systems of oppression, resists discernibility. In Macho Ethics: Masculinity and …
Macho Ethics
Masculinity and Self-Representation in Latino-Caribbean Narrative
Av Jason Cortés
E-bok, 2014
737 kr
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Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous one—a fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances. Because of its opacity and instability, masculinity, like more recognizable systems of oppression, resists discernibility. In Macho Ethics: Masculinity and …
Macho Ethics
Masculinity and Self-Representation in Latino-Caribbean Narrative
Av Jason Cortés
Häftad, 2016
688 kr
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Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous one—a fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances. Because of its opacity and instability, masculinity, like more recognizable systems of oppression, resists discernibility. In Macho Ethics: Masculinity and …
From Amazons to Zombies
Monsters in Latin America
Inbunden, 2015
1547 kr
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How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America—Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean—are named for monstrous races of women warriors, big-footed giants and cannibals? Through history, monsters inhabit human imaginings of discovery and creation, and also degeneration, chaos, and death. Latin …
From Amazons to Zombies
Monsters in Latin America
E-bok, 2015
771 kr
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How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America—Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean—are named for monstrous races of women warriors, big-footed giants and cannibals? Through history, monsters inhabit human imaginings of discovery and creation, and also degeneration, chaos, and death. Latin …
From Amazons to Zombies
Monsters in Latin America
Häftad, 2017
704 kr
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How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America—Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean—are named for monstrous races of women warriors, big-footed giants and cannibals? Through history, monsters inhabit human imaginings of discovery and creation, and also degeneration, chaos, and death. Latin …
Beyond Civilization and Barbarism
Culture and Politics in Postrevolutionary Argentina
Häftad, 2015
737 kr
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Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines how various cultural forms promoted competing political projects in Argentina during the decades following independence from Spain. This turbulent period has long been characterized as a struggle between two irreconcilable forces: the dictatorship of Juan …
Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation
Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture, and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicolás Guillén
Inbunden, 2016
1547 kr
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The Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity. Yet, many aspects of Guillén’s work enhance black Cuban …
Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation
Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture, and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicolás GuilléN
E-bok, 2016
702 kr
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The Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity. Yet, many aspects of Guillén’s work enhance black Cuban …
