"Critically up-to-date and eminently readable, Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture provides a penetrating introduction to the relatively little-known experiences of the Chinese diaspora in Cuba and the fiction and poetry it has generated."--Juan E. de Castro, The New School
"The most comprehensive study of Chinese in Cuban literature and culture available in any language. Lopez-Calvo has consulted all the imaginable sources and has left no stone unturned. This is an imperative, fascinating, necessary, and timely topic."--William Luis, Vanderbilt...
"Critically up-to-date and eminently readable, Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture provides a penetrating introduction to th...
This volume is a collection of essays dealing with the critical dialogue between the cultural production of the Hispanic/Latino world and that of the so-called Orient or the Orient itself, including the Asian and Arab worlds. As we see in these essays, the Europeans' cultural others (peripheral nations and former colonies) have established an intercultural and intercontinental dialogue among themselves, without feeling the need to resort to the center-metropolis' mediation. These South-to-South dialogues tend not to be as asymmetric as the old dialogue between the (former) metropolis (the...
This volume is a collection of essays dealing with the critical dialogue between the cultural production of the Hispanic/Latino world and that of the ...
Los Angeles has long been a place where cultures clash and reshape. The city has a growing number of Latina/o authors and filmmakers who are remapping and reclaiming it through ongoing symbolic appropriation. In this illuminating book, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo foregrounds the emotional experiences of authors, implicit authors, narrators, characters, and readers in order to demonstrate that the evolution of the imaging of Los Angeles in Latino cultural production is closely related to the politics of spatial location. This spatial-temporal approach, he writes, reveals significant social anxieties,...
Los Angeles has long been a place where cultures clash and reshape. The city has a growing number of Latina/o authors and filmmakers who are remapping...
Roberto Bolano is considered one of the most influential Latin American writers of his generation. The first English-language volume on the Chilean author, essays address such topics as Borges's influence, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism and discuss works like 2666, The Savage Detectives, and Distant Star .
Roberto Bolano is considered one of the most influential Latin American writers of his generation. The first English-language volume on the Chilean au...
Nota de contratapa: A simple vista, una muchacha se desnuda y el panuelo del mundo, percudido de espantos y miserias, puede tornarse tiernamente habitable; urdir lloviznas y astrolabios; fraguar zaguanes y estampidas; inventariar las maravillas, las deslumbrantes sinuosidades de amaneceres y atardeceres de marzo; o, simplemente, de un casi imperceptible manotazo, despertar del letargo las brasas del poema. A simple vista, Rapsodia de todo lo visible e invisible no es un libro -pudiera serlo-, sus confluencias y afluencias estallan, copulan y se esparcen visibles, transparentes, manoseables,...
Nota de contratapa: A simple vista, una muchacha se desnuda y el panuelo del mundo, percudido de espantos y miserias, puede tornarse tiernamente habit...
Roberto Bolano is considered one of the most influential Latin American writers of his generation. The first English-language volume on the Chilean author, essays address such topics as Borges's influence, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism and discuss works like 2666, The Savage Detectives, and Distant Star .
Roberto Bolano is considered one of the most influential Latin American writers of his generation. The first English-language volume on the Chilean au...
Offers an anthology of Los Angeles's most significant English-language and Spanish-language non-fiction writing from the city's inception to the present. Contemporary Latinx authors focus on the ways in which Latinx Los Angeles's nonfiction narratives record the progressive racialization and subalternization of Latinxs in the southwestern US.
Offers an anthology of Los Angeles's most significant English-language and Spanish-language non-fiction writing from the city's inception to the prese...
