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1	Introduction to Spanish-American Literature more books like this by Jean Franco add to wishlist This is a revised, updated edition of Jean Franco's classic Introduction to Spanish-American Literature, first published in 1969 and much recommended ever since. Its coverage ranges from colonial times to the present day, the later chapters having been radically rewritten to take account of the most recent developments in both literature and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Determinations: Essays on Theory, Narrative and Nation in the Americas more books like this by Neil Larsen add to wishlist Determinations is both an uncompromising Marxian engagement with a n erstwhile 'postcolonial theory' and a set of new critical readings of a body of 'postcolonial' narratives, mainly Latin American. Its central propositions are twofold: first, that the national question, however its terms have changed, is the still under-theorized and unresolved ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.51! \| first editions
3	Latin American Vanguards: The Art of Contentious Encounters more books like this by Vicky Unruh add to wishlist In this study of Latin America's literary vanguards of the 1920s and 1930s, the author 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 European avantegarde movements of the World War I era. But as this wide ... see all copies from $13.74! new only from $39.16! \| SVS
4	Literatures of Latin America more books like this by Willis Barnstone add to wishlist For courses in Latin American Literature, World Literature, and Non-Western Literature. This extraordinary anthology gathers together a broad selection of representative, authoritative writings--spanning antiquity to the present--from the non-Western civilizations of Latin America. It combines extensive introductions, headnotes, and ... see all copies from $22.99! new only from $23.99!
5	Linking the Americas: Race, Hybrid Discourses, and the Reformulation of Feminine Identity more books like this by Lesley Feracho add to wishlist What links women of the Americas? How do they redefine their identities? Lesley Feracho answers these questions through a comparative look at texts by your women writers from across the Americas-"Zora Neale Hurston, Julieta Campos, Carolina Maria de Jesus, and Clarice Lispector. She explores how their writing reformulates identity as an intricate ... see all copies from $11.75! new only from $37.25!
6	A Magical Encounter: Latino Children's Literature in the Classroom more books like this by Alma Flor Ada add to wishlist Enhance the presence of literature in your classroom! A Magical Encounter: Latino Children's Literature in the Classroom, 2e offers suggestions for the uses of literature in the classroom and its application to any classroom and with any other books the teacher may prefer. The book includes numerous examples of both books in English and books in ... see all copies from $11.92! new only from $23.54! \| SVS
7	Pleasure in the Word: Erotic Writing by Latin American Women more books like this by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (Editor), Lizabeth P Gebert (Editor), Margarite Fernandez Olmos (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Exhaustion of Difference- PB more books like this by Alberto Moreiras, Alberto Moreiras, Stanley Fish (Editor) add to wishlist The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in trans-national academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exhaustion of Difference Alberto Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, post-Marxist theory, philosophy, political economy, subaltern studies, literary criticism, ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Rediscovering the New World: Inter-American Literature in a Comparative Context more books like this by Earl E. Fitz add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Mutual Impressions - PB more books like this by Ilan Stavans, Ilan Stavans (Editor), John Barth (Contributions by) add to wishlist It is commonly assumed that the United States and Latin America, culturally so different, move artistically to very different rhythms. Also common is the assumption that, with rare exception, the literary figures on one side of the global North/South divide have had little interest in the work of their counterparts. With "Mutual Impressions" Ilan ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.58! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature more books like this by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria (Editor), Enrique Pupo-Walker (Editor) add to wishlist The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature is by far the most comprehensive work of its kind ever written. Its three volumes cover the whole sweep of Latin American literature (including Brazilian) from pre-Columbian times to the present, and contain chapters on Latin American writing in the USA. Over forty specialists in North America, ... see all copies from $89.75! new only from $161.52!
12 view cover	Neither Saints Nor Sinners: Writing the Lives of Women in Spanish America more books like this by Kathleen Ann Myers add to wishlist This book brings together the portraits and autobiographical texts of six 17th-century Latin American women, drawing on primary sources that include Inquisition and canonization records, confessional and mystic journals, and legal defenses and petitions. see all copies from $10.40! new only from $27.45! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary more books like this by Erin Graff Zivin add to wishlist While Jews figure in the work of many modern Latin American writers, the question of how - and toward what ends - they are represented has received remarkably little critical attention. Rectifying this omission in literary criticism, Erin Graff Zivin traces the symbolic presence of Jews and Jewishness in late nineteenth- through late-twentieth ... see all copies from $15.30! new only from $24.77! \| SVS
14 view cover	Art and Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination more books like this by Ilan Stavans add to wishlist Fascinated by the idea of Western civilization as being a sequence of numerous misinterpretations and misrepresentations, these 19 essays cover a broad range of topics with the unifying theme being the crossroads where politics and the imagination meet. An essay on linguistics and culture discusses the shaping of Latin America's collective ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $42.05! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Onetti and Others: Comparative Essays on a Major Figure in Latin American Literature more books like this by Gustavo San Roman (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45!
16 view cover	Black Writers and Latin America: Cross-Cultural Affinities more books like this by Richard Jackson add to wishlist In this study, the author begins by examining the influence of Africa and Spain upon the literatures of African Americans and Latin Americans. He explores the reciprocal exchange of influences among artists of African descent in the United States and in Latin America--from established writers to a new generation of writers, including women. see all copies from $3.90! new only from $3.98!
17 view cover	Lives on the Line: The Testimony of Contemporary Latin American Authors more books like this by Doris Meyer (Editor) add to wishlist These thoughtfully assembled writings by many of Latin America's finest authors bear first-person witness to the personal, social, and political situation of the writer and of literature in Latin America. At different times ironic, impassioned, humorous, reflective, autobiographical, polemical, and always vivid and engaging, this collection of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America more books like this by Richard L Jackson add to wishlist In "Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America," Richard L. Jackson explores literary Americanism through writings of black Hispanic authors such as Carlos Guillermo Wilson, Quince Duncan, and Nelson Estupinan Bass that in many ways provide a microcosm for the larger literature. Jackson traces the roots of Afro-Hispanic literature from the ... see all copies from $3.56! new only from $22.44! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Textual Confrontations: Comparative Readings in Latin American Literature more books like this by Alfred J. Mac Adam add to wishlist In this masterful experiment in truly comparative literary criticism, Alfred J. Mac Adam establishes Latin America's place in the Western literary tradition. By juxtaposing Latin American and Anglo-American texts, he shows how Latin American literature has gone beyond the context of Hispanic letters to borrow from, exploit, and finally extend the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.10! \| first editions
20 view cover	Pleasure in the Word: Writings by Latin American Women more books like this by Margarite Fernandez Plmos, Margarite F Olmos (Editor), Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (Editor) add to wishlist This unique compilation traces the erotic thread in 20th-century Latin American women's writing, featuring stories, poems, and fiction by 32 women writers from Central and South America. Well-known writers like Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela, along with other important Latin writers, are introduced to the American audience in a most ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The House of Memory: Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America more books like this by Marjorie Agosin (Editor), Marjorie Agosc-N (Editor), Marjorie Agosn (Editor) add to wishlist These 22 stories are about Jews in Latin America. see all copies from $8.95! new only from $11.95! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Eagle or Sun more books like this by Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger (Translator) add to wishlist The first major book of short prose poetry in Spanish, "Eagle or Sun?" exerted an enormous influence on modern Latin American writing. Written in 1949-50 by Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz, "Eagle or Sun?" has a mythopoeic "place" Mexico -- a country caught up in its pre-Columbian past, the world of modern imperialism, and an apocalyptic future ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $11.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Places of History - PB more books like this by Doris Sommer (Editor), Doris Sommer (Editor), Josefina Ludmer (Contributions by) add to wishlist "The Places of History" regrounds literary criticism in the particularities of history so as to probe those gaps created by reading Latin American literature through either the lenses of a totalising view of a globalised culture or through universal formulae for reading offered by metanarratives. It is history which points to the tension between ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $6.00!
24 view cover	Caribbean Shadows more books like this by Kathleen Renk add to wishlist Renk demonstrates how contemporary Anglophone Caribbean women's writing radically subverts the myth of the family as it is constructed in 19th century British and colonial texts. These women writers reconfigure Caribbean identity, family, and nation according to cross-cultural, trans-national and transtemporal paradigms. see all copies from $6.00! new only from $6.00!
25 view cover	The Space In-Between: Essays on Latin American Culture more books like this by Silviano Santiago, Ana Gazzola (Editor), Professor Tom Burns, M.D (Translator) add to wishlist Silviano Santiago has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially postcolonial theory. The notions of 'hybridity' and the 'space in-between' have been so completely absorbed into current theory that few scholars even realise these terms began with Santiago. He was ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $7.93! \| SVS

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