"Contemporary Latin American Literature" reflects the wealth of great writers of Latin America over the last hundred years, including Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Noble Prize winners Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The selections - almost 100 works in their original form - include English ...
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien. Lusophone playwrights who wrote under repressive regimes and during politically chaotic times often depicted events in their nations' histories that were oppressive in nature - including the Inquisition, slavery, and colonialism. Using techniques derived from Bertolt Brecht, the ...
Borges 2.0: From Text to Virtual Worlds analyzes Jorge Luis Borges's "The Library of Babel," "The Garden of Forking Paths," and "The Intruder" from a tripartite perspective that encompasses literature, science, and technology. This book underscores developments in chaos theory during the 1980s and their intricate connections with Borges's works ...
Oliverio Girondo is a leading figure of the Spanish American avant-garde. Parody, the Avant-Garde, and the Poetics of Subversion in Oliverio Girondo examines the presence and function of parody in Girondo's early poetry and drawings. It illustrates how, through the subversion of both conventional and vanguard poetics, these texts discredit the ...
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2002. Latin America: Interdisciplinary Studies. Vol. 2 General Editor: Gladys M. Varona-Lacey From a comparative perspective and within the frameworks of feminist criticism and of Bakhtin's approach to language, Maria Teresa Medeiros-Lichem traces the evolution of Latin American women ...
Spaces of Representation: The Struggle for Social Justice in Postwar Guntemala juxtaposes a variety of contemporary Guatemalan discourses - literary fiction, testimonio, historical and political documents, and popular drama - calling into question such notions as truth, clarification, memory, and storytelling in the representation of human ...
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