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  • Cannibal Angels

    Transatlantic Modernism and the Brazilian Avant-Garde

    by Kenneth David Jackson ...
    Series Book 33 - Cultural History and Literary Imagination
    In the first three decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, musicians, and architects from both sides of the Atlantic interacted to create a modern style for Brazil. Their works shaped Brazilian national expression and self-definition for the twentieth century and into the present, with renewed relevance as Brazil plays an increasingly important role in global affairs. Artists such as ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Transpoetic Exchange

    Haroldo de Campos, Octavio Paz, and Other Multiversal Dialogues

    by Marília Librandi, Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Tom Winterbottom, Enrico Mario Santí, João Adolfo Hansen, Marjorie Perloff, Antonio Cicero, Luiz Costa-Lima0, Odile Cisneros1, Charles A. Perrone2, Kenneth David Jackson3, Benedito Nunes4, Jerome Rothenberg5, Keijiro Suga6, André Vallias7, Charles Bernstein8 ...
    Series series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
    Transpoetic Exchange illuminates the poetic interactions between Octavio Paz (1914-1998) and Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003) from three perspectives--comparative, theoretical, and performative. The poem Blanco by Octavio Paz, written when he was ambassador to India in 1966, and Haroldo de Campos’ translation (or what he calls a “transcreation”) of that poem, published as Transblanco in 1986, as ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Science Fiction Collection (20 books)

    Ray Bradbury The Monster Maker, Rocket Summer, Isaac Asimov Youth, E.M. Forster Machine Stops, H. G. Wells Time Machine and others

    by Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, E.M. Forster, Philip K. Dick, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Machen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edwin A. Abbott, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells ...
    Narrated by Peter Coates, Mark Bowen, David McCord, Simon Jackson, Kenneth Elliot, Trevor O'Hare, Martina Mercer-Hall, Paul Gibson, Sharon Plummer ...

    Unabridged

    47 hours 30 min

    This Science Fiction Collection brings together 20 iconic works from some of the genre's most influential authors. Featuring Ray Bradbury's atmospheric The Monster Maker and Rocket Summer, Isaac Asimov's thought-provoking Youth, E.M. Forster's dystopian The Machine Stops, and H.G. Wells' timeless masterpiece The Time Machine, the anthology explores a wide range of speculative themes. From ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Tango

    Sex and Rhythm of the City

    by Mike Gonzalez, Marianella Yanes ...
    Series series Reverb
    Born on the unlit streets of Buenos Aires, tango was inspired by the music of European immigrants who crossed the ocean to Argentina, lured by the promise of a better life. In the capital’s marginal districts, it was embraced and shaped by young men who told tales of prostitutes, petty thieves and disappointed lovers through its music and movements. Chronicling the stories told through tango’s ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Cinema of Latin America

    Edited by Alberto Elena, Marina Díaz López ...
    Series series 24 Frames
    The Cinema of Latin America is the first volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema. In taking an explicitly text-centered approach, the books in this series offer a unique way of considering the particular concerns, styles and modes of representation of numerous national cinemas around the world. This volume focuses on the vibrant practices that make up Latin ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enrique Granados

    Poet of the Piano

    by Walter Aaron Clark ...
    Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is one of the most compelling figures of the late-Romantic period in music. During his return voyage to Spain after the premiere of his opera Goyescas at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1916, a German submarine torpedoed the ship on which he and his wife were sailing, and they perished in the waters of the English Channel. His death was mourned on both sides of the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia

    Edited by María Claudia André, Eva Paulino Bueno ...
    Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies.Focusing on drama, ... Read more

    $440.99 USD

  • Flamenco on the Global Stage

    Historical, Critical and Theoretical Perspectives

    Edited by Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum, Michelle Heffner Hayes, K. Meira Goldberg ...
    The language of the body is central to the study of flamenco. From the records of the Inquisition, to 16th century literature, to European travel diaries, the Spanish dancer beguiles and fascinates. The word flamenco evokes the image of a sensuous and rebellious woman--the bailaora --whose movements seduce the audience, only to reject their attention with a stomp of defiance. The dancer's body is ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Brazilian Art under Dictatorship

    Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles

    by Claudia Calirman ...
    Brazilian Art under Dictatorship is a sophisticated analysis of the intersection of politics and the visual arts during the most repressive years of Brazil's military regime, from 1968 until 1975. Raised in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship, the curator and art historian Claudia Calirman describes how Brazilian visual artists addressed the political situation and opened up the local art scene ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Pablo Neruda

    Evaluating Neruda's Poetry

    by Jason Wilson ...
    Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a view that there are two Nerudas, an early Romantic visionary and a later Marxist populist, who denied his earlier poetic self. By focussing on the poet's apprenticeship, and by looking closely at how Neruda created his poetic persona within his poems, this Companion tries ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003

    Edited by Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez ...
    The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia ... Read more

    $165.99 USD