Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies is a collection of new essays by recognised experts from around the world on various aspects of the new discipline of Latin American cultural studies. Essays are grouped in five distinct but interconnected sections focusing respectively on: (I) the theory of Latin American cultural studies; (II) the icons of culture; (III) culture as a commodity; (IV) culture as a site of resistance; and (V) everyday cultural practices. The essays range across a wide gamut of theories about Latin American culture; some, for example, analyse the role that ideas...
Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies is a collection of new essays by recognised experts from around the world on various aspects of the new d...
This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet, the Peruvian Cesar Vallejo, who was born in an Andean village, Santiago de Chuco, on 16 March 1892 and died in Paris on 15 April 1938. It traces the important events of his life - becoming a poet in Peru, falling in love with Mirtho in Trujillo, writing Trilce which would transform for ever the avant-garde in the Spanish-speaking world, fleeing to Paris in the summer of 1923 after being accused of burning down Carlos Santa Maria's house in Santiago de Chuco, falling in love with Georgette Philippart and then with communism,...
This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet, the Peruvian Cesar Vallejo, who was born in an Andean village, Santiago de Chuco, ...
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. Thus begins Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez s One Hundred Years of Solitude, one of the twentieth century s most lauded works of fiction. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez, literary scholar Stephen M. Hart provides a succinct yet thorough look into Garcia Marquez s life and the political struggles of Latin America that have influenced his work, from Love in the Time of Cholera to Memories of My Melancholy...
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to disco...
