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  • Cultural Exchanges between Brazil and France

    Edited by Regina R. Félix, Scott D. Juall ...
    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years. The Brazilian je ne sais quoi has captivated the French from their first encounter, and the ingenuity à francesa of French artistic and scholarly movements has intrigued Brazilians in kind. Ongoing Brazil-France interactions have resulted in some of the richest cultural exchanges ... Read more

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  • Roberto Bolaño's Fiction

    An Expanding Universe

    by Chris Andrews ...
    Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Literature Class, Berkeley 1980

    by Julio Cortázar ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cortázar’s own writing career as they are about ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

    by Marcus Tomalin ...
    Series series British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
    From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and philosophers brooded about the merits and demerits of the French language. The decades under consideration encompass a particularly tumultuous period in Anglo-French relations that witnessed the Seven Years' War (1756 ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States

    Interviews with Contemporary Writers

    by Juanita Heredia ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of interviews demonstrates that U.S. Latinas/os of South American background have contributed pioneering work to U.S. Latina/o literature and culture in the twenty-first century. In conversation with twelve significant authors of South American descent in the United States, Juanita Heredia reveals that, through their transnational experiences, they have developed multicultural ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Modernism and Latin America

    Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange

    by Patricia Novillo-Corvalán ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century. Drawing on comparative, historical, and postcolonial reading strategies (including archival research), it seeks to reenergize the study of modernism by putting the spotlight on the cultural networks and aesthetic dialogues that developed between European ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Mobility and Modernity

    Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination

    by Robert D. Aguirre ...
    Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination rewrites the history of the Panama Canal, assessing for the first time the literary culture of the preceding decades. In this period, U.S. and British writers and visual artists developed sophisticated languages of mobility, time, and speed to cast the isthmus as an in-between place, a point of connection to more ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Roberto Bolaño as World Literature

    Edited by Professor Nicholas Birns, Professor Juan E. De Castro ...
    Series series Literatures as World Literature
    Roberto Bolaño as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of international interest, such as the rise of rightwing and neofascist movements during the last decades of the 20th century. But this anthology also shows how Roberto Bolaño's participation in ... Read more

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  • Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil

    Edited by Vinicius Mariano De Carvalho, Nicola Gavioli ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
    When Brazil was honored at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, the Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato opened the event with a provocative speech claiming that literature, through its pervasive depiction and discussion of ‘otherness,’ has the potential to provoke ethical transformation. This book uses Ruffato’s speech as a starting point for the discussion of contemporary Brazilian literature that stands ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Hemispheric Imaginations

    North American Fictions of Latin America

    by Helmbrecht Breinig ...
    What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this construction and added layers of complexity that subvert any approach based on stereotypes? ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Auto/Biography across the Americas

    Transnational Themes in Life Writing

    Edited by Ricia A. Chansky ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas—whether chosen or forced—motivates the ways in which identities are constructed in this contested space. Such movement results in a cyclical quest to belong, and to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Beyond Tordesillas

    New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies

    Edited by Robert Patrick Newcomb, Richard A. Gordon ...
    Series series Transoceanic Series
    Beyond Tordesillas: New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies is the first volume of its kind to be published in English. Bringing together young and established scholars, it seeks to consolidate the vital work being done on the connections between the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds on both sides of the Atlantic. The volume builds from an understanding that Iberian and Latin ... Read more

    $25.19 USD