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  • Modern Literatures in Spain

    by Jo Labanyi, Luisa Elena Delgado, Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper, Mari Jose Olaziregi ...
    Jo Labanyi and Luisa Elena Delgado provide the first cultural history of modern literatures in Spain. With contributors Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper, and Mari Jose Olaziregi, they showcase the country’s cultural richness and complexity by working across its four major literary cultures – Castilian, Catalan, Galician, and Basque – from the eighteenth century to the present.Engaging critically with ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies

    by Xon de Ros, Jessamy Harvey, Joanna Evans, Joyce Tolliver, Laura Lonsdale, Lou Charnon-Deutsch, Louise M Haywood, Professor Margaret R Greer, Maria Ana Beatriz Masera Cerutti, Mónica Bolufer Peruga0, Nieves Baranda1, Geraldine Hazbun3, Roberta Quance4, Rosanna Cantavella5, Susan Kirkpatrick6, Alexander W Samson7, Professor Andrew M. Beresford8, Carmen Fracchia9, Frances Lannon0, Georgina Dopico-Black1, Helena Buffery2 ...
    After an introductory survey of the development of women's studies in the context of Spain, twenty-one chronologically ordered essays by scholars from Britain, the United States, Spain and Mexico explore women's roles in the cultural production of their time from the Middle Ages to the present.The essays of the first half examine the work of the earliest women writers and artists - memoirs and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Catalans

    by Helena Buffery, Elisenda Marcer ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    In this reference, Buffery and Marcer cover all of the areas historically inhabited by the Catalan people. These are, in order of size and population: Catalonia, which accounts for over half of the population of the Catalan-speaking areas; Valencia, with over a third; the Balearic Islands with just under 8 percent; and the Catalunya Nord, the Principality of Andorra, and the Catalan-speaking areas ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Barcelona

    Visual Culture, Space and Power

    Edited by Helena Buffery, Carlota Caulfield ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power offers a unique approach to the history of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period. It presents the relationship between environment, identity and performance as explored by countercultural artists and communities from the 1960s to the present day. ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Deeds of James I of Aragon

    A Translation of the Medieval Catalan Llibre dels Fets

    Edited by Damian J. Smith, Helena Buffery ...
    Series series Crusade Texts in Translation
    The 'Book of Deeds' is the first known autobiography by a Christian king. Its author was James I of Aragon (1213-76), known as 'The Conqueror', one of the great political figures of 13th-century Europe and a successful crusader. In his 'Deeds', James describes the turbulent years of his minority, the thrilling capture of Majorca, the methodical conquest of the kingdom of Valencia, the reconquest ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture

    Edited by Inés Ordiz, Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays in this volume illuminate the existence of native representations of the Gothic, while also exploring the presence of universal archetypes of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Emilia Pardo Bazán

    Edited by Margot Versteeg, Susan Walter ...
    Series Book 147 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    "Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) was the most prolific and influential woman writer of late nineteenth-century Spain," write the editors of this volume in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Contending with the critical literary, cultural, and social issues of the period, Pardo Bazán's novels, novellas, short stories, essays, plays, travel writing, and cookbooks offer ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture

    by María Fernández ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Since the colonial era, Mexican art has emerged from an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global, which frequently involves invention, synthesis, and transformation of diverse discursive and artistic traditions. In this pathfinding book, María Fernández uses the concept of cosmopolitanism to explore this important aspect of Mexican art, in which visual culture and power ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Baroque Horrors

    Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

    by David Castillo ...
    "David Castillo takes us on a tour of some horrific materials that have rarely been considered together. He sheds a fantastical new light on the baroque."---Anthony J. Cascardi, University of California Berkeley"Baroque Horrors is a textual archeologist's dream, scavenged from obscure chronicles, manuals, minor histories, and lesser-known works of major artists. Castillo finds tales of mutilation, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Hybrid Cultures

    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

    $17.99 USD

  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    by Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

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  • Singular and Plural

    Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia

    by Kathryn A. Woolard ...
    Series series Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
    Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn ... Read more

    $52.19 USD