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Life in Search of Readers: Reading (In) Chicano/A Literature
ISBN: 9780826333605 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since colonial times, Chicano/a literature has varied with the authors' assumptions about the class and gender of their audiences, the linguistic choices available for literary communication, the geographic mobility of writers and readers, and the tastes they may have acquired in Mexico or other countries. In this examination of Chicano/a literature, Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez analyses the ways it connects with and is shaped by the interaction with its audiences. Motivated by a Tomas Rivera essay from 1971, into the Labyrinth: The Chicano in Literature, Martin-Rodriguez began collecting,...
Since colonial times, Chicano/a literature has varied with the authors' assumptions about the class and gender of their audiences, the linguistic choi...
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156,09 |
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Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers
ISBN: 9780826340887 / Angielski / Miękka / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hector A. Torres conducted these interviews with today's popular Chicano/a writers, asking each about language and life between languages, about the creative drive that has guided them in their craft and commits them to their art. In sharing their responses, Torres reveals a brief biography of each author and a concise examination of their writings. Taking their stories and essays individually and collectively, Torres explains how each author reiterates issues that have concerned Mexican Americans since at least 1848.
Chicano/a authors know that an abundance of politics can spoil a story,... Hector A. Torres conducted these interviews with today's popular Chicano/a writers, asking each about language and life between languages, about the c...
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112,14 |
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A Dance Between Two Cultures: Stories of Living with Diabetes
ISBN: 9780826513021 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers insights on Latino Caribbean writers born or raised in the United States who are at the vanguard of a literary movement that has captured both critical and popular interest.
In this groundbreaking study, William Luis analyzes the most salient and representative narrative and poetic works of the newest literary movement to emerge in Spanish American and U.S. literatures. The book is divided into three sections, each focused on representative Puerto Rican American, Cuban American, and Dominican American authors. Luis traces the writers' origins and influences from the nineteenth... Offers insights on Latino Caribbean writers born or raised in the United States who are at the vanguard of a literary movement that has captured both ...
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369,68 |
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Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers
ISBN: 9780874174939 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Karin Rosa Ikas offers probing and insightful interviews with ten Chicana writers of diverse backgrounds: Denise Chavez, Gloria Anzaldua, Lucha Corpi, Cherrie Moraga, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Mary Helen Ponce, Jamie Lujan, Demetria Martinez, Estela Portillo-Trambley, and Pat Mora. The interviews address such topics as personal background, education, sense of ethnic and gender identity, the origins and intention of published works, and general views on writing, culture, and art, revealing a rich multiplicity of Chicana voices and views in diverse genres including poetry, drama, and fiction. For...
Karin Rosa Ikas offers probing and insightful interviews with ten Chicana writers of diverse backgrounds: Denise Chavez, Gloria Anzaldua, Lucha Corpi,...
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73,12 |
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Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World
ISBN: 9780878055722 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book of interviews conducted by Jussawalla and Dasenbrock is the first to feature third-world authors discussing their works and their careers. These are joined by three Chicano writers from the U.S. All fourteen included here write in English, a language they have chosen for their creative expression, and all write their novels at a time when codes of the colonial past are targets of revisionism. In this fascinating collection of fourteen interviews (eleven previously unpublished) the interviewers speak with leading writers from Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, India, Pakistan, New Zealand,... This book of interviews conducted by Jussawalla and Dasenbrock is the first to feature third-world authors discussing their works and their careers... |
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Pláticas: Conversations with Hispano Writers of New Mexico
ISBN: 9780896724280 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Mexico is an enchanted land and from this beautiful place with its rich cultural diversity and complex history, a strong Hispanic literary tradition has grown spanning several centuries.Platicas: Conversations with Hispano Writers of New Mexico is a series of interviews with six remarkable contemporary Hispano writers from that New Mexico tradition. The conversations found here represent a sketch of New Mexican Hispanic intellectual and artistic history that has not been assembled elsewhere. Nasario Garcia s interviews elicit candid commentary and spontaneous responses that reveal much...
New Mexico is an enchanted land and from this beautiful place with its rich cultural diversity and complex history, a strong Hispanic literary traditi...
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107,26 |
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William Faulkner: A Critical Study
ISBN: 9780929587691 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this fourth edition of his celebrated study of Faulkner, Irving Howe analyzes all of the great author's works, emphasizing the themes that run throughout the novels and stories. "The scheme of my book is simple," Mr. Howe writes. "First, I have tried to say what Faulkner's work is about, ' to report on the social and moral themes in his books; and then I have tried to analyze and evaluate the more important novels." Anyone who has enjoyed the special flavor of Faulkner's writing will appreciate Mr. Howe's careful analysis, and the student of twentieth-century American literature will gain...
In this fourth edition of his celebrated study of Faulkner, Irving Howe analyzes all of the great author's works, emphasizing the themes that run thro...
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68,24 |
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Killing Spanish: Literary Essays on Ambivalent U.S. Latino/A Identity
ISBN: 9781403963949 / Angielski / Twarda / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this intelligent monograph for women's studies, literature and Latin American studies, Lyn Di Iorio Sandin asserts that there is a significant ambivalence surrounding identity that is present in the works of Latino writers such as Cristina Garcia, Edward Rivera, and Abraham Rodriguez. Sandin incorporates the theories of allegory and 'double identity' to talk about fragmentation of the Latino psyche. What Sandin finds compelling is that in all of the works of this diverse group of writers, there is a common theme of anxiety about origins that manifests itself through the symbols of dead...
In this intelligent monograph for women's studies, literature and Latin American studies, Lyn Di Iorio Sandin asserts that there is a significant ambi...
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201,24 |
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Reading U.S. Latina Writers: Remapping American Literature
ISBN: 9781403969453 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This essential teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by U.S. Latina and Latin American Women writers. It will assist non-specialist educators in syllabus revision, new course design and classroom presentation. The inclusive focus of the book - that is, combining both US Latina and Latin American women writers - is significant because it introduces a more global and transnational way of approaching the literature. The introduction outlines the major historical experiences that inform the literature, the important genres, periods, movements and authors in its evolution; the...
This essential teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by U.S. Latina and Latin American Women writers. It will assist non-specialist...
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201,24 |
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The Latino/A Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature
ISBN: 9781403977960 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. In this first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship between art, politics, and the market.
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you wit...
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201,24 |
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The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880
ISBN: 9781403980793 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons found themselves to be pioneering scholars and lifelong students of the Hispanic world. The author asserts that these gifted Americans focused on the Hispanic world that they might shape their own country's identity after Independence and the War 1812, a crucial time for the young republic, and that they found inspiration in a most unlikely place: the seat of the collapsing Spanish empire.
This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons found themselves to be pioneering scholars and lifelong students of the Hispan...
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201,24 |
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La Mano Que Escribe: Literatura, Arte y Pensamiento
ISBN: 9781425762148 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La mano que escribe: Literatura, arte y pensamiento de: ZOE JIMENEZ CORRETJER Es un libro que recoge distintas perspectivas del saber literario. La autora expone aqui una variedad de temas, dominio del analisis critico y del lenguaje, conocimiento humanistico, capacidad teorica, relaciones entre disciplinas, historia, ciencia y arte, entre otras. Es ademas, un catalogo de temas universales, un despliegue de ideas, una coleccion de intereses esenciales. La mano que escribe es una manifestacion filosofica sobre la naturaleza de aquellos que escriben. Es un homenaje critico al ser, al demiurgo,...
La mano que escribe: Literatura, arte y pensamiento de: ZOE JIMENEZ CORRETJER Es un libro que recoge distintas perspectivas del saber literario. La au...
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74,93 |
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La Mano Que Escribe: Literatura, arte y pensamiento
ISBN: 9781425762193 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La mano que escribe: Literatura, arte y pensamiento de: ZOE JIMENEZ CORRETJER Es un libro que recoge distintas perspectivas del saber literario. La autora expone aqui una variedad de temas, dominio del analisis critico y del lenguaje, conocimiento humanistico, capacidad teorica, relaciones entre disciplinas, historia, ciencia y arte, entre otras. Es ademas, un catalogo de temas universales, un despliegue de ideas, una coleccion de intereses esenciales. La mano que escribe es una manifestacion filosofica sobre la naturaleza de aquellos que escriben. Es un homenaje critico al ser, al demiurgo,...
La mano que escribe: Literatura, arte y pensamiento de: ZOE JIMENEZ CORRETJER Es un libro que recoge distintas perspectivas del saber literario. La au...
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118,04 |
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Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America
ISBN: 9781557533586 / Angielski / Miękka / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume's genesis stems from the contributors' conviction that, given its vitality and excellence, Latin American literature deserves a more prominent place in comparative literature publications, curricula, and disciplinary discussions. The editors introduce the volume arguing, first, that there still exists, in some quarters, a lingering bias against literature written in Spanish and Portuguese and, second, that by embracing Latin American literature and culture more enthusiastically, comparative literature would find itself reinvigorated, placed into productive discourse with a host of...
This volume's genesis stems from the contributors' conviction that, given its vitality and excellence, Latin American literature deserves a more promi...
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131,65 |
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Reading Susan Sontag: A Critical Introduction to Her Work
ISBN: 9781566633918 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading Susan Sontag is the first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag's work, including full discussions of her fiction. Carl Rollyson, Ms. Sontag's first biographer, is uniquely situated to provide well-informed and clear readings of all her major work. He writes for general readers and students as well as for specialists. Each of his chapters is devoted to one of Ms. Sontag's books and is divided into three sections: synopsis, Ms. Sontag's own views of her work, and critical commentary, and thus progresses from basic knowledge to more sophisticated interpretation. In a detailed...
Reading Susan Sontag is the first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag's work, including full discussions of her fiction. Carl Rollyson, Ms. S...
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97,50 |
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Understanding Contemporary Chicana Literature
ISBN: 9781570033797 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the work of six notable authors, Understanding Contemporary Chicana Literature reveals characteristic themes, images, and stylistic devices that make contemporary Chicana writing a vibrant and innovative part of a burgeoning Latina creativity. Describing Chicana literature as a quest for self-definition, Deborah L. Madsen provides close readings of the poetry, prose, novels, and short fiction of Bernice Zamora, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Denise Chavez, Alma Luz Villaneuva, and Lorna Dee Cervantes. Madsen identifies the historical, social, and feminist ties among these writers...
Exploring the work of six notable authors, Understanding Contemporary Chicana Literature reveals characteristic themes, images, and stylistic devices ...
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156,09 |
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Cinematic Techniques in the Prose Fiction of Beatriz Guido
ISBN: 9781581120585 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Has 20th century literary technique been influenced by the cinema? The obvious answer is yes. But with that answer few specific examples are ever provided, frustrating the reader and filmgoer alike. This study does give specifics drawn from the novels, short stories and screenplays of Argentine writer Beatriz Guido (1925-1988), wife of noted film director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. Cinematic narrative techniques and literary narrative techniques share features in common, a mutual influence, but also important differences. Here these are examined in detail. Students and fans of film and Latin...
Has 20th century literary technique been influenced by the cinema? The obvious answer is yes. But with that answer few specific examples are ever prov...
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108,95 |
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Notable Latino Writers-3 Vol. Set
ISBN: 9781587652431 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Notable Latino Writers compiles 122 essays on great novelists, poets, playwrights, and short-story writers of the Western Hemisphere who are considered "Latino" in the broad sense of the term. Literature covered includes works originally written in English and those Spanish and Portuguese works that have been translated into English. For each there is a comprehensive overview of the author's biography and literary career as well as ready-reference listings of their major works in all genres.
Notable Latino Writers compiles 122 essays on great novelists, poets, playwrights, and short-story writers of the Western Hemisphere who are considere...
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843,85 |
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Reflexiones - Vol. I
ISBN: 9781930879331 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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229,34 |
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Reflexiones - Vol. II
ISBN: 9781930879348 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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229,34 |
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