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Hispanic Issues eBook Series

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  • Iberian Cities

    Edited by Joan Ramon Resina ...
    Series series Hispanic Issues
    This multi-disciplinary study explores the explosion of cultural, social, linguistic, and architectural development in urban and rural settlements on and surrounding the Iberian peninsula during the 20th century. ... Read more

    $96.09 CAD

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    Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity

    by Nestor Garcia Canclini ...
    Translated by Christopher L. Chiappari, Silvia L. Lopez ...
    When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to relevant theoretical developments over the past decade.Garcia Canclini questions whether Latin America can compete in a ... Read more

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  • Octavio Paz

    by Nick Caistor ...
    Series Book 12 - Critical Lives
    When Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, it was in recognition of the fact that for many years he had been the pre-eminent poet in the Spanish speaking world. His work takes the traditions of Mexican poetry as well as French and Spanish influences, and adds what he himself read of his contemporaries in Mexico, Britain and France, in particular, the Surrealists. But Paz was also ... Read more

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  • History and Language in the Andes

    Edited by P. Heggarty, A. Pearce ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrored in the fates of the very languages they spoke. The conquistadors wrought theirs into a new 'world language'; yet the Andes still host the New World's greatest linguistic survivor, Quechua. Historians and linguists see this through different - but ... Read more

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  • Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América

    by Rodolfo Kusch, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Translated by María Lugones, Joshua M. Price ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an opposition between the technologies and rationalities of European modernity and the popular mode of ... Read more

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  • The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945

    by Raymond Williams ...
    Series series The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945
    In this expertly crafted, richly detailed guide, Raymond Leslie Williams explores the cultural, political, and historical events that have shaped the Latin American and Caribbean novel since the end of World War II. In addition to works originally composed in English, Williams covers novels written in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and Haitian Creole, and traces the profound influence of ... Read more

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  • Beyond Bolaño

    The Global Latin American Novel

    by Héctor Hoyos ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also ... Read more

    $30.23 CAD

  • Photopoetics at Tlatelolco

    Afterimages of Mexico, 1968

    by Samuel Steinberg ...
    Series series Border Hispanisms
    In the months leading up to the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, students took to the streets, calling for greater democratization and decrying crackdowns on political resistance by the ruling PRI party. During a mass meeting held at the Plaza of the Three Cultures in the Tlatelolco neighborhood, paramilitary forces opened fire on the gathering. The death toll from the massacre remains a ... Read more

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  • Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico

    Edited by Edward R. Burian ...
    Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contemporary architectural culture and as a reaction to neoconservative postmodernism. This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of the notion of modernity in Mexican architecture and its influence on a generation of Mexican architects whose works spanned ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel

    From 1600 to the Present

    Edited by Harriet Turner, Adelaida López de Martínez ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of invention and experiment, on what constitutes the singular features of evolving fictional forms. It examines how the novel articulates the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel

    Edited by Efraín Kristal ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here ... Read more

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  • Gender, Empire, and Postcolony

    Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections

    by Anna M. Klobucka ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism. ... Read more

    $104.48 CAD