Latin American Literature and Culture – serie
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15 produkter
Canto General
Av Pablo Neruda
Häftad, 2011
273 kr
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"The Canto General", thought by many of Neruda's most prominent critics to be the poet's masterpiece, is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people.
Castaways
Av Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Enrique Pupo-Walker
Häftad, 1993
427 kr
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This enthralling story of survival is the first major narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36). The author of "Castaways (Naufragios)", Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition to claim for Spain a vast area that …
Eva the Fugitive
Häftad, 1990
427 kr
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An early cameo of Latin American surrealism, Rosamel del Valle's erotic narrative of ecstasy and perdition creates the rhythm of the dream and the tempo of madness. Intermittently a waiflike young woman, Eva, intrudes into the daily routine of the writer. Her appearances are marked by a circle of …
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil
Av Jean De Lery
Häftad, 1993
322 kr
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When the famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: "Jean de Lery's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil". Lery had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member of the first Protestant mission to the New …
Foundational Fictions
The National Romances of Latin America
Av Doris Sommer
Häftad, 1993
558 kr
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National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America. "Foundational Fictions" shows how 19th century patriotism and heterosexual passion historically depend on one another to engender productive citizens.
Reading Columbus
Häftad, 1993
450 kr
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Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of their textual problems and ideological …
Latin American Vanguards
The Art of Contentious Encounters
Av Vicky Unruh
Häftad, 1994
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575 kr
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In this first comprehensive study of Latin America's literary vanguards of the 1920s and 1930s, Vicky Unruh explores the movement's provocative and polemic nature. Latin American vanguardism--a precursor to the widely acclaimed work of contemporary Latin American writers--was stimulated by the …
Facundo
Civilization and Barbarism
Häftad, 2004
509 kr
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A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento's "Facundo" has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published, this foundational text appears here for …
Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda
Av Pablo Neruda
Häftad, 2011
273 kr
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The atom, a tuna, laziness, love - the everyday elements and essences of human experience glow in the translucent language of Neruda's odes. Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) wrote three books of odes during his lifetime. Odas elementales was published in 1954, followed in subsequent years by …
This Earth, That Sky
Poems by Manuel Bandeira
Häftad, 2018
400 kr
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This is a generous, long-overdue presentation of the major Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira (1886–1968) to the English-speaking reader. Well over a hundred poems appear here in both Portuguese and English, together with a critical overview that introduces the poet and Brazilian poetry to the …
Dissonant Legacy of Modernismo
Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, and the Voices of Modern Spanish American Poetry
Häftad, 1989
706 kr
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The Dissonant Legacy of Modernismo: Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, and the Voices of Modern Spanish American Poetry examines the intricate evolution of modernista poetry in Spanish America, focusing on the works of key figures such as Leopoldo Lugones, Julio Herrera y Reissig, and their successors. …
Dissonant Legacy of Modernismo
Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, and the Voices of Modern Spanish American Poetry
Inbunden, 1989
1300 kr
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The Dissonant Legacy of Modernismo: Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, and the Voices of Modern Spanish American Poetry examines the intricate evolution of modernista poetry in Spanish America, focusing on the works of key figures such as Leopoldo Lugones, Julio Herrera y Reissig, and their successors. …
This Earth, That Sky
Poems by Manuel Bandeira
Inbunden, 2024
1767 kr
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This is a generous, long-overdue presentation of the major Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira (1886–1968) to the English-speaking reader. Well over a hundred poems appear here in both Portuguese and English, together with a critical overview that introduces the poet and Brazilian poetry to the …
José Donoso's House of Fiction
A Dramatic Construction of Time and Place
Inbunden, 1995
580 kr
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This text examines the multiple narrative perspectives Donoso presents and traces a transformation in Donoso's works from complex stage performance to political forum. It illuminates a weaving of feminine and masculine aspects of artistic voice in his work.
Autobiography of a Slave / Autobiografia De Un Esclavo
Autobiografia De Un Esclavo
Av Juan Francisco Manzano, Ivan A Schulman
Häftad, 1996
321 kr
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This sombre biography of an urban slave who taught himself to read and write, and who ultimately achieved fame as a poet in Cuba's slave society, is presented in both Spanish and English. There is an introduction which sets the text in its historical and cultural context.
