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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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545,52 |
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A Critic's Journey
ISBN: 9780472033829 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the leading voices in Latino literature writes about his life and work One of the leading voices in Latino literature writes about his life and work |
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113,16 |
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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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184,51 |
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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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131,02 |
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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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46,05 |
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Flight Should Be About Beauty & Grace: Revised Edition
ISBN: 9781442148727 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Flight Should Be About Beauty & Grace weaves everyday life into a word tapestry through poems and stories. An easy read that's perfect as a gift, for the coffee table, or the waiting room.
Flight Should Be About Beauty & Grace weaves everyday life into a word tapestry through poems and stories. An easy read that's perfect as a gift, for ...
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24,23 |
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Escritos sobre Pensamiento y Filosofía Latinoamericana: Bello, Rodó, Roig, Zea, Ellacuría, Fanon, Galeano
ISBN: 9781791956646 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,78 |
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Outlaw: The Collected Works of Miguel Pinero
ISBN: 9781558856066 / Angielski / Miękka / 381 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of impassioned writings by a celebrated poet, playwright, and rebel
A collection of impassioned writings by a celebrated poet, playwright, and rebel
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76,88 |
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Corazon en Esperanza: : Poetry and stories from an imprisoned heart
ISBN: 9781452851266 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poetry and short stories with vivid imagery and magical realism; centered on a Latin American historical/political theme. Written by the wife of an asylum applicant to her husband, offering him escape from his detention surroundings. Many were published in literary journals. In February of 2010, after 3 years seeking asylum in the U.S., Jennifer Lawson - Zepeda's husband was deported from the U.S. He fled his country for safety and applied for asylum again in Nicaragua. He was held with over thirty missing refugees from throughout the world, hidden in the bowels of the Direccion General de...
Poetry and short stories with vivid imagery and magical realism; centered on a Latin American historical/political theme. Written by the wife of an as...
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24,28 |
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Edmundo
ISBN: 9781144277688 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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81,78 |
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El Camino by Miguel Delibes
ISBN: 9780719080562 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Upon entering the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975, Miguel Delibes delivered an address which reclaimed El camino (1950) for the emerging Green movement. With a blend of hilarity, satire, pathos and tragedy, Delibes artfully explores the process of crossing boundaries in pursuit of maturity and social advancement, whilst also implying that real education is the unfolding of the human heart among friends and sweethearts within a shared social and natural space.
This new annotated version of the text comprises an introductory essay discussing green issues, attitudes towards the Spanish... Upon entering the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975, Miguel Delibes delivered an address which reclaimed El camino (1950) for the emerging Green movement....
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154,67 |
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Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon
ISBN: 9781846314995 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform (www. oapen. org).
Historically and contemporarily, politically and literarily, Haiti has long been relegated to the margins of the so-called 'New World.' Marked by exceptionalism, the voices of some of its most important writers have consequently been muted by the geopolitical realities of the nation's fraught history. In Haiti Unbound, Kaiama L. Glover offers a close look at the works of three such writers: the Haitian Spiralists Franketienne, Jean-Claude Fignole, and Rene Philoctete.... A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform (www. oapen. org).
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206,17 |
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Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women
ISBN: 9780820349251 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new Latino literary collection brings together twenty-four engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living in the United States. The first volume of its kind, "Daring to Write" s insightful works offer readers a wide array of topics."
This new Latino literary collection brings together twenty-four engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living i...
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691,18 |
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FaceBook Dialogues & Conversations: English-Français -Kreyòl Ayisyen
ISBN: 9781453862834 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FACEBOOK Dialogues & Conversations (I) is an account of different topics discussed on my Facebook "Wall." From sophisticated thoughts down to everyday talks, conversations can start very smoothly then turn extremely hot. These dialogues are presented to you in their original forms with minor editing. Since my Facebook friends speak and write in different languages, you will have the leisure to read those postings in english, in french and in haitian creole. To protect individual privacy, I used initials and, at times first names. It is my anticipation and my hope that you will enjoy the...
FACEBOOK Dialogues & Conversations (I) is an account of different topics discussed on my Facebook "Wall." From sophisticated thoughts down to everyday...
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117,34 |
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Contemporary Uruguayan Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology
ISBN: 9781611483550 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is intended as an introduction of contemporary poetry by notable Uruguayan poets to the English-reading world, but also to readers of Spanish unfamiliar with them. Each poet is represented by an ample and varied selection of poems originally published in Spanish, here with English translations on facing pages. The final chapter is devoted to a biographical sketch of each poet and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources. A numbers of these poets have had poems translated into other languages and included in national and international anthologies, and have...
This volume is intended as an introduction of contemporary poetry by notable Uruguayan poets to the English-reading world, but also to readers of Span...
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499,57 |
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Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean
ISBN: 9780813931128 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sex and the Citizen is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that draws on current anxieties about -legitimate- sexual identities and practices across the Caribbean to explore both the impact of globalization and the legacy of the region's history of sexual exploitation during colonialism, slavery, and indentureship. Speaking from within but also challenging the assumptions of feminism, literary and cultural studies, and queer studies, this volume questions prevailing oppositions between the backward, homophobic nation-state and the laid-back, service-with-a-smile paradise or... Sex and the Citizen is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that draws on current anxieties about -legitimate- sexual identities and pr... |
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352,63 |
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Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean
ISBN: 9780813931135 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sex and the Citizen is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that draws on current anxieties about -legitimate- sexual identities and practices across the Caribbean to explore both the impact of globalization and the legacy of the region's history of sexual exploitation during colonialism, slavery, and indentureship. Speaking from within but also challenging the assumptions of feminism, literary and cultural studies, and queer studies, this volume questions prevailing oppositions between the backward, homophobic nation-state and the laid-back, service-with-a-smile paradise or... Sex and the Citizen is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that draws on current anxieties about -legitimate- sexual identities and pr... |
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176,32 |
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Bolívar, el insondable
ISBN: 9781460913871 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cuatro voces narrativas establecen un dialogo polifonico: el propio Bolivar en su lecho de muerte, conversando consigo mismo, para encontrarle sentido a su vida y a su obra. Jose Carreno, en el ano de 1826, cuando sirvio de informante ante el Foreign Office Ingles, donde se discutia la conveniencia de apoyar economica y militarmente a Bolivar. Maria Teresa Rodriguez del Toro con su diario intimo, y el autor que da cuenta de las vicisitudes de la investigacion historica y la empresa literaria. El mapa de los desplazamientos y los encuentros incluye en America a Caracas, Cartagena, La Habana,...
Cuatro voces narrativas establecen un dialogo polifonico: el propio Bolivar en su lecho de muerte, conversando consigo mismo, para encontrarle sentido...
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68,79 |
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'Passing Jacks'
ISBN: 9781461001577 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PROLOGUE At least twice a year, you and everyone else should take leave from heavy-duty living, check the fishing gear, and keep watch for any passing jacks. The truce won't affect life's outcome too much, and you may not catch any fish; but at least it will demonstrate your continuing interest in being human and not a robot. Our personal choices for philosophical beach combing are two very significant anniversaries: New Year's Day, when good ideas and resolutions abound, and we're full of optimism for the future. The early mornings of our Birthdays, when we pessimistically wonder how much...
PROLOGUE At least twice a year, you and everyone else should take leave from heavy-duty living, check the fishing gear, and keep watch for any passing...
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60,69 |
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Contrapuntos IV: An Experimental Edition
ISBN: 9780998253909 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,26 |
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