A Soh Dem Gwaan!
ISBN: 9780982998427 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Soh Dem Gwaan is the third collection of short stories by Joelle Cohen Wright who continues with side-splitting and laugh-out-loud stories portraying the diverse personalities of the Jamaican culture. As the wonderful mix of characters speak in the rich Jamaican dialect (patois), the stories draw readers into their everyday lives as they engage in playful banter and contentious disputes with each other. Readers can expect a humorous interpretation of everyday Jamaican life among people from all walks of life. Inanimate objects (such as the GPS) and animals (such as Yaad Dog, Yaad Fowl, Sista...
Soh Dem Gwaan is the third collection of short stories by Joelle Cohen Wright who continues with side-splitting and laugh-out-loud stories portraying...
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The Latino Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9781479896837 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nineteenth century Written by both established and emerging scholars, the essays in The Latino Nineteenth Century engage materials in Spanish and English and genres ranging from the newspaper to the novel, delving into new texts and areas of research as they shed light on well-known writers. This volume situates nineteenth-century Latino intellectuals and writers within crucial national, hemispheric, and regional debates....
A retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the lon...
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407,78 zł |
Cecilia Valdes O La Loma Del Angel
ISBN: 9781934768655 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cecilia Valdes, one of the jewels of nineteenth-century Latin American fiction, displays a thematic complexity that is unique among the novels of its time. Cecilia, the alluring mulata, has come to represent the survival strategies of women of color in a racist society. The novel occupies a prominent place in post-colonial studies about social stratification according to skin color in plantation societies. Villaverde's novel shows the process of modernization that resulted from the boom in the sugar industry, and the transformation of Havana and its social dynamics. The spaces through which...
Cecilia Valdes, one of the jewels of nineteenth-century Latin American fiction, displays a thematic complexity that is unique among the novels of its ...
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197,55 zł |
La voragine
ISBN: 9781934768662 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jose Eustasio Rivera lived in an era of major transformations that caused hesitation in the social and cultural parameters of everyday life. As an intellectual he possessed a reflexive attitude about the national problems and the political sectarianism. He also felt a great love for the nation as a result from seeing how the national territory was being disintegrated for diverse causes. Contradicted officially on the social accusations he had done as a member of the National Congress, he resorted to the novel to create conscience in the readers and thus to mobilize them to perform a social...
Jose Eustasio Rivera lived in an era of major transformations that caused hesitation in the social and cultural parameters of everyday life. As an int...
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183,37 zł |
The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americasvolume 12
ISBN: 9780520271128 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Fear of French Negroes is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1845). Using visual culture, popular music and dance, periodical literature, historical memoirs, and state papers, Sara E. Johnson examines the migration of people, ideas, and practices across imperial boundaries. Building on previous scholarship on black internationalism, she traces expressions of both aesthetic and experiential transcolonial black politics across the...
The Fear of French Negroes is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidat...
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246,81 zł |
The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics
ISBN: 9780822343745 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Encompassing Amazonian rainforests, Andean peaks, coastal lowlands, and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador s geography is notably diverse. So too are its history, culture, and politics, all of which are examined from many perspectives in "The Ecuador Reader." Spanning the years before the arrival of the Spanish in the early 1500s to the present, this rich anthology addresses colonialism, independence, the nation s integration into the world economy, and its tumultuous twentieth century. Interspersed among forty-eight written selections are more than three dozen images.
The voices and creations... Encompassing Amazonian rainforests, Andean peaks, coastal lowlands, and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador s geography is notably diverse. So too are its ...
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Marking Milestones
ISBN: 9789769569393 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Marking Milestones: 21 Keynote Speeches about Successful Institutions and Outstanding Leaders," Professor Errol Miller addresses fundamental issues through the lens of these institutions and explores the unprecedented sacrifices made by some of our most often unheralded leaders. These speeches, written in an easy-going, non-academic style, persuasively remind us of who we are, the road we have travelled and a future of possibilities. This iconic collection, laced with humour, history and heart, will give you a deep understanding of the circumstances and the crises that impact us...
In "Marking Milestones: 21 Keynote Speeches about Successful Institutions and Outstanding Leaders," Professor Errol Miller addresses fundamental issue...
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156,61 zł |
Kindling: Writings on the Body
ISBN: 9780983683131 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aurora Levins Morales was born in rural Puerto Rico in 1954, of Puerto Rican and Ashkenazi Jewish parents. A lifelong feminist and radical, artist and activist, storyteller and historian, her writing bridges the gap between the intimately personal and the global, between sensual experience and theory. In Kindling she explores the meanings of sickness and healing, suffering and pleasure, through the story of her own body, of all our bodies, of the body of the planet. Kindling is a collage of prose poetry, poems, essays, performance pieces and memoir, exploring the rich complexity od living in...
Aurora Levins Morales was born in rural Puerto Rico in 1954, of Puerto Rican and Ashkenazi Jewish parents. A lifelong feminist and radical, artist and...
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126,24 zł |
Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris
ISBN: 9783838202655 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gianluca Delfino's study is based on the assumption that Wilson Harris' works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author's complex imagination. As a valuable contribution to Caribbean Literature and Philosophy, Harris' imaginative approach to reality is discussed in relation to the categories of history and time with reference to several novels, from "Palace of The Peacock" to "The Mask of the Beggar," with a special focus on "The Infinite Rehearsal," "Jonestown" and "The Dark Jester," spanning more than forty years of his vast literary production, encompassing...
Gianluca Delfino's study is based on the assumption that Wilson Harris' works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author's c...
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282,87 zł |
Miss Lou: Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture
ISBN: 9789766378660 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Louise Bennett Coverley, 'Miss Lou', has for decades represented the 'face' of Jamaican culture, the essence of what it is to be Jamaican. As a poet, performer, storyteller, singer, actress, writer, broadcaster, folklore scholar and children's television show host, she won hearts and souls for Jamaica with her humorous yet compelling performances worldwide. It is Miss Lou, more than any other figure in Jamaica's history, who showed that the language spoken by most Jamaicans - patois or Jamaican Creole - is worthy of respect. In Miss Lou: Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture, Mervyn Morris...
Louise Bennett Coverley, 'Miss Lou', has for decades represented the 'face' of Jamaican culture, the essence of what it is to be Jamaican. As a poet, ...
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73,96 zł |
Diario di un Seduttore _ Biografia non Autorizzata
ISBN: 9781497576100 / Włoski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. DIARIO DI UN SEDUTTORE: BIOGRAFIA NON AUTORIZZATA e un'opera di doppio carattere: fiction e, allo stesso tempo, anche non di narrativa. Questo e, tra le altre cose, nel primo e nel secondo, in forma poetica, la forma di un romanzo, che racconta, nonostante la prima persona, narra le avventure e/o nelle situazioni di vita quotidiana l'amore di un giovane milionario, anche in casa di 30 anni che, a sua volta, diventa la loro vita solo nell'ottica di guadagnare piu soldi e, nello stesso brano, raccogliete anche il maggior numero possibile di donne, non fa distinzione di razza, colore, posizione...
DIARIO DI UN SEDUTTORE: BIOGRAFIA NON AUTORIZZATA e un'opera di doppio carattere: fiction e, allo stesso tempo, anche non di narrativa. Questo e, tra ...
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Stories people love
ISBN: 9781499597394 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stories People Love contains short stories of Crime, Adventure, and Love. 1. A Headmaster's Daughter - When minimal value was placed on education for girls, a passionate young Christian girl finds true love with a brilliant scholar. 2. Travel Dreams of Yesterday - Two young adventurous girls, one with a strict Christian father, take a trip across the world. 3. The Dirtiest of all evils - A thrilling murder mystery that demonstrates true brotherly love. 4. Age Difference - A Love Story. True love knows no bounds but can there be a limit to the age of your partner? The four stories, each...
Stories People Love contains short stories of Crime, Adventure, and Love. 1. A Headmaster's Daughter - When minimal value was placed on education for ...
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45,10 zł |
Bustin' the Blues: A Collection of Poems
ISBN: 9781500468743 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection seeks to anthologize Farrell's work from 1975 to the present. It is a celebration of his 'Trodition' from youthful exuberance to manhood, memories that continue to inform his creativity. Busting the Blues is a selection of poems from various published and unpublished collections. In 1999 it was awarded a 3rd prize in the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Competition. This revised edition explores a number of themes relevant to youth, family and the wider community and remains his major collection to date. It is intended to further excite an interest in the reading and...
This collection seeks to anthologize Farrell's work from 1975 to the present. It is a celebration of his 'Trodition' from youthful exuberance to manho...
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Central American Avant-Garde Narrative: Literary Innovation and Cultural Change (1926-1936)
ISBN: 9781604978858 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is in the Cambria Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures Series (General editor: Roman de la Campa, University of Pennsylvania). "Central American Avant-Garde Narrative is an exemplary work of literary criticism that re-envisions the canon of Central American literature and is destined to set a new standard for ethical, comprehensive research. Specialists and students, after reading this work, will have a clear understanding as to why prose fiction by certain lesser-known writers (Max Jimenez, Flavio Herrera and Rogelio Sinan) from this region needs to be rescued from...
This book is in the Cambria Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures Series (General editor: Roman de la Campa, University of Pennsylvania)....
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480,93 zł |
El Secreto de La Pacanda
ISBN: 9781500191252 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Orlando Abarca, abogado de 34 anos, lleva una vida tan comoda como rutinaria hasta que es acosado por Esteban Landeros - un viejo amigo de su padre y lider de una poderosa organizacion criminal- para que le entregue la informacion que le permitira cumplir con su objetivo: apoderarse de un secreto, herencia del pueblo Inca, que el pueblo purhepecha ha custodiado por mas de mil anos. Abarca descubre, en medio de intrigas, mentiras y revelaciones, la verdad tras la misteriosa muerte de su padre -uno de los guardianes del secreto-, los origenes del pueblo purhepecha, que si posee la informacion...
Orlando Abarca, abogado de 34 anos, lleva una vida tan comoda como rutinaria hasta que es acosado por Esteban Landeros - un viejo amigo de su padre y ...
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Recuerdos de un hacendado
ISBN: 9781502519498 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Recuerdos de un hacendado," de Godofredo Daireaux. Godofredo Daireaux fue ganadero, agricultor y fundador de pueblos de campana (1849-1916)"
"Recuerdos de un hacendado," de Godofredo Daireaux. Godofredo Daireaux fue ganadero, agricultor y fundador de pueblos de campana (1849-1916)"
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Memoirs of an Island Boy: Life, growing up on the Island of St Croix, U.S V.I. in the 1950's.
ISBN: 9781500673529 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a wonderful collection of memoirs of an Island boy who grew on the beautiful Island of St. Croix Virgin Islands in the 50's era. An era that didn't have all the media outlets and gadgets of today's society like Social media, YouTube, Streaming content, high end electronics like iPads, Computers, and cellphones. Storytelling was their entertainment apparatus. These comical stories told by my father recounted humorous events that took place as a young boy with his array of one eyed animals, and a copious of characters that will have you smiling and chuckling inside. Simple, yet...
This is a wonderful collection of memoirs of an Island boy who grew on the beautiful Island of St. Croix Virgin Islands in the 50's era. An era that d...
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Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature
ISBN: 9780190210120 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ends of Assimilation examines how Chicano literature imagines the conditions and costs of cultural change, arguing that its thematic preoccupation with assimilation illuminates the function of literature. John Alba Cutler shows how mid-century sociologists advanced a model of assimilation that ignored the interlinking of race, gender, and sexuality and characterized American culture as homogeneous, stable, and exceptional. He demonstrates how Chicano literary works from the postwar period to the present understand culture as dynamic and self-consciously promote literature as a medium...
Ends of Assimilation examines how Chicano literature imagines the conditions and costs of cultural change, arguing that its thematic preoccup...
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146,30 zł |
Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature
ISBN: 9780190210113 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ends of Assimilation examines how Chicano literature imagines the conditions and costs of cultural change, arguing that its thematic preoccupation with assimilation illuminates the function of literature. John Alba Cutler shows how mid-century sociologists advanced a model of assimilation that ignored the interlinking of race, gender, and sexuality and characterized American culture as homogeneous, stable, and exceptional. He demonstrates how Chicano literary works from the postwar period to the present understand culture as dynamic and self-consciously promote literature as a medium...
Ends of Assimilation examines how Chicano literature imagines the conditions and costs of cultural change, arguing that its thematic preoccup...
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585,77 zł |
Selected Writings of César Vallejo
ISBN: 9780819574848 / Angielski / Twarda / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first time in English, readers can now evaluate the extraordinary breadth of Cesar Vallejo's diverse oeuvre that, in addition to poetry, includes magazine and newspaper articles, chronicles, political reports, fictions, plays, letters, and notebooks. Edited by the translator Joseph Mulligan, Selected Writings follows Vallejo down his many winding roads, from Santiago de Chuco in highland Peru, to the coastal cities of Trujillo and Lima, on to Paris, Madrid, Moscow, and Leningrad. This repeated border-crossing also plays out on the textual level, as Vallejo wrote prolifically across...
For the first time in English, readers can now evaluate the extraordinary breadth of Cesar Vallejo's diverse oeuvre that, in addition to poetry, inclu...
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150,37 zł |