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  • Dreams and Realities

    Selected Fiction of Juana Manuela Gorriti

    by Juana Manuela Gorriti, Sergio Waisman ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    One of the most dramatic figures among Latin America's romantic writers and the distinguished woman writer of her century, Juana Manuela Gorriti brings passion and intrigue to the scene of writing. An exile from her native Argentina who sought refuge first in Bolivia and then in Peru, her lifetime of travel and displacement is echoed in her fictions. Her short stories tell of homelessness and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Dreams and Realities

    Selected Fiction of Juana Manuela Gorriti

    by Juana Manuela Gorriti, Sergio Waisman ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    One of the most dramatic figures among Latin America's romantic writers and the distinguished woman writer of her century, Juana Manuela Gorriti brings passion and intrigue to the scene of writing. An exile from her native Argentina who sought refuge first in Bolivia and then in Peru, her lifetime of travel and displacement is echoed in her fictions. Her short stories tell of homelessness and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    A search for "Belize" in Google, iTunes and bing yields well-crafted content by the tourism industry stakeholders, government officials and non-Belizeans describing their new home. The stories in Belizean Nail Soup tell what the real Belize is about - its sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures. Each story was conceived in the mind of a Belizean man or woman, mostly educators, well aware of ... Read more

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  • The Magician of Vienna

    by Sergio Pitol, Margo Glantz ...
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    The heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid Trilogy of Memory, which won him the prestigious Cervantes Prize, finds Pitol boldly and passionately weaving fiction and autobiography together to tell of his life lived through the written word as a way to stave off the advancement of a degenerative neurological condition causing him to lose the use of ... Read more

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  • Sabers and Utopias

    Visions of Latin America: Essays

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    A landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate's conception of Latin America, past, present, and futureThroughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examining liberal claims and searching for cohesion, he continuously weighs the reality of the continent against the image it projects, and considers the ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Tomochic

    Memoirs of a Second Lieutenant

    by Heriberto Frías, Barbara Jamison ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Tomochic is a controversial and celebrated example of Mexican fiction. Tomochic is the fictional narration of the 1892 military campaign that resulted in the massacre of the small village of Tomochic, located in the Tarahumara mountains and ordered by the dictatorial regime of Porfirio Díaz. The work is narrated by an eyewitness, the then second lieutenant, Heriberto Frías, and written by him in ... Read more

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  • Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature

    by Emma Staniland ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns in terms of their role in elucidating a literary journey towards agency: that is, towards the ... Read more

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  • Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature

    by Kate Houlden ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This book focuses on sex and sexuality in post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Countering the critical orthodoxy that literature from this period dealt with sex only tangentially, implicitly transmitting sexist or homophobic messages, the author instead highlights the range and diversity in its representations of sexual life. She draws on gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory ... Read more

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  • Point of View

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    "Our disagreement has a natural explanation. I am a single girl, full of complications, dreams, ambitions, and poetry; you are already a woman of the house, a calm and happy wife, soon to be a mother; you see things through a different lens."Raquel and her married friend Luísa exchange lively letters in this brief tale that amply illustrates Machado de Assis's knack for creating sympathetic female ... Read more

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