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Haunting without Ghosts
An ambitious critical account of "spectral realism," a new, politically charged strain of literature, film, and art that responds to Colombia's drug wars, paramilitary violence, and resulting demands for justice.
Pariah in the Desert
This is the first book in English on Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay 1878-Argentina 1937), a canonical author whose works are read by all advanced students of Spanish in the US and many other countries. The study examines Quiroga’s work through the theoretical lens of the heroic—a lens elaborated in part by means of Quiroga’s own disquisitions on the subject—and the complementary phenomenon of the monstrous. This lens serves to elucidate many evidently obscure and self-contradictory aspects of Quiroga’s work and its relation to the context in which he lived. That context included the neo-colonial social and economic milieu of Argentina’s fast-changing, immigrant-charged, increasingly ma...
Liberalism at Its Limits
In Liberalism at Its Limits, Ileana Rodriguez considers several Latin American nations that govern under the name of liberalism yet display a shocking range of nondemocratic features. In her political, cultural, and philosophical analysis, she examines these environments in which liberalism seems to have reached its limits, as the universalizing project gives way to rampant nonstate violence, gross inequality, and neocolonialism. Focusing on Guatemala, Colombia, and Mexico, Rodriguez shows how standard liberal models fail to account for new forms of violence and exploitation, which in fact follow from specific clashes between liberal ideology and local practice. Looking at these tensions wit...
The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel
The Latin American novel burst onto the international literary scene with the Boom era--led by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa--and has influenced writers throughout the world ever since. García Márquez and Vargas Llosa each received the Nobel Prize in literature, and many of the best-known contemporary novelists are inspired by the region's fiction. Indeed, magical realism, the style associated with García Márquez, has left a profound imprint on African American, African, Asian, Anglophone Caribbean, and Latinx writers. Furthermore, post-Boom literature continues to garner interest, from the novels of Roberto Bolaño to the works of Cés...
Mining Memory
Every major Peruvian author of the twentieth century has written a narrative focused on childhood or coming of age. Mining Memory argues that Peruvian narratives of the twentieth century re-imagine childhood not only to document personal pasts, but also to focus on national identity as a dynamic and incomplete process. Mining Memory shows how 20th-century narratives and films reimagine the self and the nation by representing child and adolescent protagonists and their evolution, using the remembrance of childhood as part of a nation-making project. The book demonstrates how, in the context of Peru, fictions focusing on childhood become vehicles for the national reimagining and collective rem...
Land of Necessity
Historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational, and of scarcity and abundance, in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
Antología poética (edición bilingüe)
Autor de una vasta producción literaria que comprende relatos, novelas, teatro, poemas en prosa, crítica y ensayo, amén de infinidad de cartas, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) fue también, y quizá ante todo, un gran poeta. Imbuida de los sentidos del oído y de la vista, la mayor parte de su obra lírica es fácil de entender, huye de lo abstracto («no hay ideas sino en las cosas»), se compone de poemas por lo general breves y es la que mejor logró expresar, desde Whitman, la sensibilidad norteamericana, lo que le ha valido el reconocimiento de figuras como Allen Gisnsberg, Robert Lowell, Raymond Carver o Charles Bukowski. La presente antología poética ofrece un inmejorable panorama de la entera trayectoria poética de Williams, recogiendo al menos un texto de casi todos sus libros. Selección y traducción de Juan Miguel López Merino
Border Texts
Núria Vilanova's outstanding book is about borders, people, and texts. Border Texts: Writing Fiction From Northern Mexico studies the relationship between the Mexico-U.S. border and some of the fiction produced in the area. What are the different presences of the border within these texts? Is the border so powerful as to permeate the aesthetics and literary discourse of such texts? Can the multidimensional space of the border be determinant in the making of fiction? After a review of border dynamics within the Mexico-U.S. context, with a look at border and Chicano studies, Border Texts explores the fiction of Jesús Gardea and Luis Humberto Crosthwaite. Latin Americanist Núria Vilanova has...
Social Change and Literature in Peru, 1970-1990
This volume studies the relationship between social change and literature in Peru, arguing that the emergence in the 1970s and 80s of new fiction writers and poets from social sectors historically excluded from Peruvian public life - lower classes, migrants, and women - was part of a dramatic process of social change by which those sectors were gaining an important role in the transformation of society.
European Consultants Directory, 1991
This reference covers over 5000 consultants, grouped by country, by broad subject terms, and then alphabetically by consulting organization. It also lists additional addresses for almost 2500 branch offices, covering 7500 consultants throughout Europe.
