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1	The Poetry of Pablo Neruda more books like this by Pablo Neruda, Ilan Stavans (Editor) add to wishlist A comprehensive edition of Neruda's work, translated into English by a variety of writers. see all copies from $8.98! new only from $10.33! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Book of Questions more books like this by Pablo Neruda add to wishlist In this posthumously published book, Neruda poses 316 intriguing questions in the form of lyrical, visionary poems--questions to which he fails to provide answers. see all copies from $3.29! new only from $8.40! \| SVS
3	A personal anthology more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work--short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant "sketches," which, in Borges's hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters. see all copies from $2.45! new only from $7.22! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Borges: A Life more books like this by Edwin Williamson add to wishlist This life of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) looks closely at his family background, which included a slew of famous Army heroes, and at his own decision to devote his own life to liberal causes as a writer and a thinker. Using interviews, documents, and much heretofore unavailable material, Edwin Williamson concentrates on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Historia de La Literatura Hispanoamericana more books like this by Jose Miguel Oviedo add to wishlist see all copies from $11.89! new only from $80.00!
6	Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral more books like this by Gabriela Mistral, Ursula K Le Guin (Translator) add to wishlist The first Nobel Prize in literature to be awarded to a Latin American writer went to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. Famous and beloved during her lifetime all over Latin America and in Europe, Mistral has never been known in North America as she deserves to be. The reputation of her more flamboyant and accessible friend and countryman Pablo ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $24.86! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Machado de Assis: Reflections on a Brazilian Master Writer more books like this by Richard Graham (Editor) add to wishlist Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) never left Brazil and rarely traveled outside his native city of Rio de Janeiro, yet he is widely acknowledged by those who have read him as one of the major authors of the nineteenth century. His works are full of subtle irony, relentless psychological insights, and brilliant literary innovations. Yet, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| first editions
8	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 $9.90! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Literary Masterpieces V5 One Hundred Years of Solitude more books like this by Gale Group (Contributions by), Joan Mellen add to wishlist Gale Study Guides to Great Literature are a unique reference line composed of three series: Literary Masters, Literary Masterpieces and Literary Topics. Convenient, comprehensive and targeted to current coursework, the guides put authors, titles and topics into context for high school and college students as well as general researchers. Not to be ... see all copies from $3.08! new only from $4.98!
10	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 $2.79! \| first editions
11 view cover	Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States more books like this by Rodrigo Lazo add to wishlist In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and books, Collaborating with military movements known as filibusters, this generation of exiled writers created a body of literature demanding Cuban independence from Spain and alliance with or annexation ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98!
12 view cover	Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora more books like this by Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez add to wishlist The result of a decade of research in archives and special collections in the Caribbean and in the US, Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez argues that the writing of the Puerto Rican diaspora should be considered an integral field of study. Covering 100 years of Boricua literary history, each chapter looks at the single writer or group of writers who are most ... see all copies from $26.40! new only from $26.40! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	A Refuge in Thunder: Candombla(c) and Alternative Spaces of Blackness more books like this by Rachel E Harding, Darlene Clark Hine (Editor), John McCluskey (Editor) add to wishlist The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble has long been recognised as an extraordinary resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. Outlawed and persecuted in the late colonial and imperial period, Candomble nevertheless developed as one of the major religious expressions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. ... see all copies from $5.90! new only from $18.19! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Before night falls more books like this by Reinaldo Arenas add to wishlist This shocking memoir by the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas is a book about sexual, political and artistic freedom. In "Before Night Falls", Arenas recounts his journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba to his death in New York four decades later. He tells of his odyssey from young rebel fighting for the Revolution, through his ... see all copies from $4.43! new only from $7.98!
15 view cover	Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture more books like this by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo add to wishlist More than 150 years ago, the first Chinese contract laborers ("coolies") arrived in Cuba to work the colonial plantations. Eventually, over 150,000 Chinese immigrated to the island, and their presence has had a profound effect on all aspects of Cuban cultural production, from food to books to painting.Ignacio Lopez-Calvo's interpretations often go ... see all copies from $27.58! new only from $27.58! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Hispanoamerica En Su Literatura more books like this by Nicholson B Adams add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.90! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge more books like this by Beatriz Sarlo add to wishlist Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be one of the 20th century's most significant writers. Yet in all the critical debates on his work, the fact that he is an Argentine writer is rarely discussed, as if his world reputation had somehow cleansed him of nationality. Sarlo argues that these "universalist" readings leave aside vital aspects ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $12.38! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Gardening in the Tropics more books like this by Olive Senior add to wishlist This work contains a rich Caribbean world in poems offered to readers everywhere. Olive Senior's rich vein of humour can turn wry and then sharp in satire of colour-consciousness, class-consciousness, and racism. But her predominant tone is the verbal equivalent of a pair of wide-open arms. This collection goes down deep, drawing on presences and ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $6.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	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
20	The Argentine Generation of 1880: Ideology and Cultural Texts more books like this by David W Foster add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions
21 view cover	Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity more books like this by Christina Civantos add to wishlist Between Argentines and Arabs is a groundbreaking contribution to two growing fields: the study of immigrants and minorities in Latin America and the study of the Arab diaspora. As a literary and cultural study, this book examines the textual dialogue between Argentines of European descent and Arab immigrants to Argentina from the mid-1800s to the ... see all copies from $20.95! new only from $20.95!
22 view cover	Garcia Lorca for Beginners more books like this by Luis Martinez Cuitino, Delia Cancela (Illustrator), Luis Martinez Cuitiino add to wishlist Garcia Lorca pioneered a new Golden Age of Spanish literature, and his inspired mix of the political and the romantic remains fresh today. He was executed without trial at age 38 at the start of the Spanish Civil War. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $10.91! \| first editions
23 view cover	Days and Nights of Love and War more books like this by Eduardo H Galeano, Sandra Cisneros (Foreword by) add to wishlist "Days and Nights succeeds not only because of its socio-political authenticity and lyrical style but because of its interweaving of anger and tenderness, elation and sorrow." "--The Nation" Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and ... see all copies from $4.36! new only from $15.24! \| SVS
24 view cover	The Shattered Mirror: Representations of Women in Mexican Literature more books like this by Maria Elena De Valdes, Maria Elena de Valdes add to wishlist Popular images of women in Mexico -- conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television -- were long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized fallen woman. But new representations of women and their roles in Mexican society have shattered the ideological mirrors that reflected these ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.93! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Selected Writings of Andrs Bello more books like this by Frances Lopez-Morillas (Translator), Andres Bello, Ivan Jaksic (Editor) add to wishlist Andres Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major role in shaping the national identities of newly independent Latin American countries. He held ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| first editions \| SVS

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