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If I Could Write This in Fire
ISBN: 9781565841826 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this unprecedented collection, Pamela Maria Smorkaloff brings together fiction from the French-, Spanish-, and English-speaking Caribbean, much of it translated here for the first time. The book s wide-ranging and diverse selections address the central themes of the region s literature: the plantation, maroon society, colonial education, rural and urban life, women s changing roles in the modern Caribbean, exile, and the diaspora. Works include Jamaican author James Carnegie s powerful novella "Wages Paid" about a day in the life of a slave plantation, a selection by noted Guadeloupan... In this unprecedented collection, Pamela Maria Smorkaloff brings together fiction from the French-, Spanish-, and English-speaking Caribbean, much ... |
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108,77 zł |
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Cuba
ISBN: 9781883513115 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travel to Cuba in the company of its finest writers and gain an understanding of its remarkable mystique. The twenty-one stories in this collection some of which appear in English for the first time will take you on an odyssey through the country's rich past to its dynamic present, where it is poised at the brink of immense change. Arranged by the areas of Cuba they illuminate, these stories offer up a rich literary banquet. Contributors include Luis Aguilar Leon, Maria Eugenia Alegria Nunez, Uva de Aragon, Reinaldo Arenas, Richard Blanco, Lino Novas Calvo, Calvert Casey, Alfonso Hernandez...
Travel to Cuba in the company of its finest writers and gain an understanding of its remarkable mystique. The twenty-one stories in this collection so...
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64,51 zł |
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Chile
ISBN: 9781883513139 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The twenty stories in Chile: A Traveler's Literary Companion -- most of which are available here for the first time in English -- reveal that the nation that gave birth to two poets who won Nobel prizes in literature is also the home of many world-class prose writers. This collection evokes the diversity of the country's landscape and the complexity of its recent history. Contributors include Luis Alberto Acuna, Marjorie Agosin, Roberto Ampuero, Marta Brunet, Francisco Coloane, Adolfo Couve, Jose Donoso, Ariel Dorfman, Jorge Edwards, Beatriz Garcia-Huidobro, Pedro Lemebel, Patricio...
The twenty stories in Chile: A Traveler's Literary Companion -- most of which are available here for the first time in English -- reveal that t...
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64,51 zł |
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Relampagos de Lo Invisible. Antologia
ISBN: 9789505572403 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,63 zł |
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Nueva Antología Personal
ISBN: 9789682316784 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,35 zł |
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Caribbean Fables
ISBN: 9789768054722 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you know how the dog got its cold nose? Or why the crab has a flat back? How the wild animals came to the earth, and how the Caribbean got its name? If the answer to these questions is "no," then you will be delighted to find out about these and other matters in this exciting collection of fables from the Caribbean, collected and narrated by Dorothy St. Aubyn. When the sun goes down and the cackling fowls flutter up into the guava tree to settle down for the night, that is the time when "Old Creole," the morocoy, and his friends tell stories to each other. They tell of the legends of the...
Do you know how the dog got its cold nose? Or why the crab has a flat back? How the wild animals came to the earth, and how the Caribbean got its name...
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127,13 zł |
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Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles
ISBN: 9780822342267 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book of its kind, Our Caribbean is an anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the Antilles. The author and activist Thomas Glave has gathered outstanding fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry by little-known writers together with selections by internationally celebrated figures such as Jose Alcantara Almanzar, Reinaldo Arenas, Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Audre Lorde, Achy Obejas, and Assotto Saint. The result is an unprecedented literary conversation on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered experiences throughout the Caribbean and its far-flung diaspora. Many...
The first book of its kind, Our Caribbean is an anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the Antilles. The author and activist Thomas G...
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124,92 zł |
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Prosas
ISBN: 9788498163391 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Casal es un precursor del modernismo. Sin embargo, es tambi n una figura conflictiva que resultaba desconcertante en medio de los movimientos independentistas de la Cuba del siglo XIX.
Casal es un precursor del modernismo. Sin embargo, es tambi n una figura conflictiva que resultaba desconcertante en medio de los movimientos independ...
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54,38 zł |
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Caribbean-English Passages: Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition
ISBN: 9780415418560 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Postcolonialism is used as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevence to the Caribbean experience.
Postcolonialism is used as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography ...
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281,13 zł |
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In Due Season: Essays on Novels of Development by Caribbean Women Writers
ISBN: 9780761841128 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Lucy Wilson addresses the need for both authors and their female protagonists to immerse themselves in their communities and nations and to join the dialogue that has traditionally been reserved for men. However, the need for women to join the discourse crosses all geographical boundaries. Wilson takes the lessons she has learned from strong West Indian female characters, and the creative minds that bring them to life, and in turn encourages all women to find strength in themselves. In Due Season is a collection of essays that have appeared in journals and anthologies between...
In this book, Lucy Wilson addresses the need for both authors and their female protagonists to immerse themselves in their communities and nations and...
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290,20 zł |
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The Politics of Race in Panama: Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention
ISBN: 9780813049861 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Delves into the historical convergence of peoples and cultural traditions that both enrich and problematize notions of national belonging, identity, culture, and citizenship. Antonio D. Tillis, editor of Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature With rich detail and theoretical complexity, Watson reinterprets Panamanian literature, dismantling longstanding nationalist interpretations and linking the country to the Black Atlantic and beyond. An engaging and important contribution to our understanding of Afro-Latin America. Peter Szok, author of Wolf Tracks:... Delves into the historical convergence of peoples and cultural traditions that both enrich and problematize notions of national belonging, identit... |
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459,12 zł |
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Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks: Rewriting the Tropics in the Novela de la Selva
ISBN: 9781846311956 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vision of the South American rainforest as a wilderness of rank decay, poisonous insects, and bloodthirsty 'savages'' in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book offers a new reading of the genre by arguing that, far from being derivative, the novela de la selva re-imagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective, redefining tropical landscape aesthetics and ethnography through parodic rewritings of European perceptions of Amazonia in fictional and factual travel writing. With particular...
The vision of the South American rainforest as a wilderness of rank decay, poisonous insects, and bloodthirsty 'savages'' in the Spanish American nove...
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600,17 zł |
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Between Empires: Martí, Rizal, and the Intercolonial Alliance
ISBN: 9781137332950 / Angielski / Twarda / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1898, both Cuba and the Philippines achieved their independence from Spain and then immediately became targets of US expansionism. This book presents a comparative analysis of late-nineteenth-century literature and history in Cuba and the Philippines, focusing on the writings of Jose Marti and Jose Rizal to reveal shared anti-imperial struggles.
In 1898, both Cuba and the Philippines achieved their independence from Spain and then immediately became targets of US expansionism. This book presen...
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193,63 zł |
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Argentina: A Traveler's Literary Companion
ISBN: 9781883513191 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of stories that takes readers on a literary journey that climbs the Andes Mountains, navigates the great River Plate, traverses the expansive plains of the Pampas, and explores the ever-changing landscape of the Patagonia as it extends south to Tierra del Fuego.
A collection of stories that takes readers on a literary journey that climbs the Andes Mountains, navigates the great River Plate, traverses the expan...
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64,51 zł |
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Potpourri
ISBN: 9781934768211 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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154,07 zł |
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Mexico Reading the United States
ISBN: 9780826516398 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The thirteen original essays in this collection explore the Mexican point of view from the 1920s to the present in order to register often unheard voices in the complex cross-border, cross-cultural reality shared by the two nations. The contributors, all of whom have personal experience with the challenges of bi-cultural and bi-national living, discuss travel writing, novels, film, essays, political cartoons, and Mexican sociocultural movements.
In a time of ever-increasing migration of capital and human beings, this book turns on its head the usual perspective of U.S. economic and cultural... The thirteen original essays in this collection explore the Mexican point of view from the 1920s to the present in order to register often unheard voi...
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247,66 zł |
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Mexico Reading the United States
ISBN: 9780826516381 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The thirteen original essays in this collection explore the Mexican point of view from the 1920s to the present in order to register often unheard voices in the complex cross-border, cross-cultural reality shared by the two nations. The contributors, all of whom have personal experience with the challenges of bi-cultural and bi-national living, discuss travel writing, novels, film, essays, political cartoons, and Mexican sociocultural movements.
In a time of ever-increasing migration of capital and human beings, this book turns on its head the usual perspective of U.S. economic and cultural... The thirteen original essays in this collection explore the Mexican point of view from the 1920s to the present in order to register often unheard voi...
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610,17 zł |
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Daughters of the Diaspora: Afra-Hispanic Writers
ISBN: 9789766370770 / Angielski / Miękka / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Daughters of the Diaspora features the creative writing of 20 Hispanophone women of African descent, as well as the interpretive essays of 15 literary critics. The collection is unique in its combination of genres, including poetry, short stories, essays, excerpts from novels and personal narratives, many of which are being translated into English for the first time. They address issues of ethnicity, sexuality, social class and self-representation and in so doing shape a revolutionary discourse that questions and subverts historical assumptions and literary conventions. Miriam...
Daughters of the Diaspora features the creative writing of 20 Hispanophone women of African descent, as well as the interpretive essays of 15 literary...
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206,63 zł |
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Huasipungo
ISBN: 9781934768266 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Huaisipungo edition is based on the author's definitive revision that was published in 1960. Among Ecuadorian writers, Icaza is perhaps the most renowned internationally due in great part to the publication of this novel in 1934. In it he proclaimed to the world the injustices to which the powerful landowners in an unholy alliance with the clergy held subjected the large indigenous population of Ecuador. The oligarchy of his country had throughout its history degraded them, violated any human right they were entitle to, took away anything of value that they possessed; in essence they...
This Huaisipungo edition is based on the author's definitive revision that was published in 1960. Among Ecuadorian writers, Icaza is perhaps the most ...
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146,73 zł |
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Everything and Nothing
ISBN: 9780811218832 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges highly influential work written in the 1930s and 40s that foresaw the internet ( Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius ), quantum mechanics ( The Garden of Forking Paths ), and cloning ( Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote ). David Foster Wallace described Borges as scalp-crinkling . . . Borges work is designed primarily as metaphysical arguments...to transcend individual consciousness. "
Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges highly influential work written in the 1930s and 40s that foresaw the internet ( Tlon, Uqb...
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49,28 zł |
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