"Provides the reader with a clear understanding of art in general, and prose fiction in particular, in Mexico and the Western world in our century. The author s] commentaries on the modern and the postmodern are insightful, refreshing, and informative. . . . An indispensable companion to any serious study of contemporary Spanish American literature."--Alfonso Gonzalez, California State University, Los Angeles
Fernando del Paso (b. 1935) is one of Mexico s most prestigious living authors. In this first book-length comparative study, Robin W. Fiddian evaluates Del Paso s relationships...
"Provides the reader with a clear understanding of art in general, and prose fiction in particular, in Mexico and the Western world in our century....
This collection of essays offers a new lens through which to examine Spain's cinema production following the decades of isolation imposed by the Franco regime. The seventeen key films analysed in the volume span a period of 35 years that have been crucial in the development of Spain, Spanish democracy and Spanish cinema. They encompass different genres (horror, thriller, melodrama, social realism, documentary), both popular (Los abrazos rotos/Broken Embraces, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and more select art house fare (En la ciudad de Sylvia/In the City of Sylvia, El espiritu de la...
This collection of essays offers a new lens through which to examine Spain's cinema production following the decades of isolation imposed by the Franc...
Postcolonial Borges is the first systematic account of geo-political and postcolonial themes in a range of writings by Borges, from the poetry and essays of the 1920s, through the prose and poetry of the middle years (the 40s, 50s, and 60s), to the stories of El informe de Brodie and the poems of La cifra and other later collections. Robin Fiddian analyses the development of a postcolonial sensibility in works such as 'Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires', 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius', 'Theme of the Traitor and the Hero', and 'Brodie's Report'. He examines Borges's...
Postcolonial Borges is the first systematic account of geo-political and postcolonial themes in a range of writings by Borges, from the poetr...
