Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Caribbean & Latin American

"A vision from the spirit, anchored in the power of the poetic word to transcend the suffering--and even the annihilation--of the individual."--Reinaldo Sanchez, Florida International University
"A panoramic view of Cuban cultural history under Castro's dictatorship . . . written with the urgency of a first-hand account by a person who lived those years under incredible hardships."--Ana Maria Fagundo, University of California at Riverside

Angel Cuadra was a prisoner of conscience, sentenced to one of Castro's gulags in 1967 for conspiracy. He became a forgotten man in his own...

"Provides the reader with a clear understanding of art in general, and prose fiction in particular, in Mexico and the Western world in our century. The author s] commentaries on the modern and the postmodern are insightful, refreshing, and informative. . . . An indispensable companion to any serious study of contemporary Spanish American literature."--Alfonso Gonzalez, California State University, Los Angeles

Fernando del Paso (b. 1935) is one of Mexico s most prestigious living authors. In this first book-length comparative study, Robin W. Fiddian evaluates Del Paso s relationships...

"A major and important addition to the field of Latin American studies . . . and] the work of a mature scholar. I recommend it fully and enthusiastically."-- Sara Castro-Klaren, Johns Hopkins University

Latin American fiction achieved a turning point in its representation of sexual women sometime in the 1960s. Diane E. Marting offers a richly detailed analysis of this development.

Her central idea is that in Latin American narrative women's desires were portrayed as dangerous throughout the 20th century, despite the heroic character of the "newly sexed woman" of the sixties....

"An important contribution to the study of Walcott's poetry and plays."--Modernism/modernity

"Walcott, Burnett] says, has assimilated western tradition to his own project, using it to create a new plural world of open-ended possibilities. . . . A book that should be of interest to any student of Walcott's literature."--Times Higher Education Supplement

"This ambitious book takes in the full corpus of Walcott--plays, essays, interviews, etc., as well as the poetry--and argues the essential unity of his (humanistic) vision."--Wasafiri

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" Adds] an important voice to the national conversation on race. A must read for scholars and enthusiasts of Caribbean literature." Janet J. Hampton, George Washington University

Charcoal and Cinnamonexplores the continuing redefinition of women of African descent in the Caribbean, focusing on the manner in which literature has influenced their treatment and contributed to the formation of their shifting identities.
While various studies have explored this subject, much of the existing research harbors a blindness to the literature of the non-English-speaking territories....

"The first book on the market that considers the experience of Haitians and Dominicans in the United States in one single effort of analysis and does so through the cultural venue of literary texts produced by writers from the two communities."--Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University

"A new understanding of the island of Hispaniola. . . . This] work brings to the fore a most neglected aspect of Caribbean history--the close links between two nations, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, who are perceived as enemies but whose peoples have shared similar histories of violence and...

"This could be one of the most important collections of literature in translation to appear this year."--Choice

"A dazzling spectacle of diversity . . . This new, emergent, exciting book is a read worth its price. No collection of world literature, personal or public, is complete and comprehensive without a copy of Literary Amazonia."--World Literature Today

"Unusual in its enlightened departure from a geopolitical organization of literary production. The quality of the works and their exceptional translations are fitting tributes to a bold new view of an...

A wide-ranging work that explores two centuries of Caribbean literature from a comparative perspective. While haunted by the need to establish cultural difference and authenticity, Caribbean thought is inherently modernist in its recognition of the interplay between cultures, brought about by centuries of contact, domination, and consent.