Esau and Jacob
ISBN: 9780195108118 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between the traditional and the modern, and between the monarchical and republican ideals. Instead of a heroic biblical fable, Machado de Assis gives us a story of the petty squabbles, conflicting ambitions, doubts, and insecurities that are part of the human condition.
Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her ...
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Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater
ISBN: 9780810850996 / Angielski / Twarda / 748 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela). Entries for authors, ranging from the early colonial period to the present, give succinct biographical data and an account of the author's literary production, with particular attention to their most...
The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-...
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942,76 zł |
Sentencing Canudos: Subalternity in the Backlands of Brazil
ISBN: 9780822961239 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late nineteenth century, the Brazilian army staged several campaigns against the settlement of Canudos in northeastern Brazil. The colony s residents, primarily disenfranchised former slaves, mestizos, landless farmers, and uprooted Indians, followed a man known as Antonio Conselheiro ( The Counselor ), who promoted a communal existence, free of taxes and oppression. To the fledgling republic of Brazil, the settlement represented a threat to their system of government, which had only recently been freed from monarchy. Estimates of the death toll at Canudos range from fifteen... In the late nineteenth century, the Brazilian army staged several campaigns against the settlement of Canudos in northeastern Brazil. The colony s ... |
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Saberes y sabores en Mexico y el Caribe
ISBN: 9789042030442 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Saberes y sabores en Mexico y el Caribe es fruto del proyecto de investigacion "Los contextos culinarios en la literatura del Caribe hispano y de Mexico del siglo XVI al siglo XX". Presenta un analisis de textos de diferentes epocas desde un enfoque gastrocritico en estas dos areas. Catorce especialistas comentan las multiples connotaciones de las referencias culinarias en autores como Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Sor Juana, Jose Tomas de Cuellar, Martin Luis Guzman, Sandra Cisneros, Sara Sefchovich, para la parte dedicada a Mexico. Pedro Martir de Angleria, Fredrika Bremer, Leonardo Padura...
Saberes y sabores en Mexico y el Caribe es fruto del proyecto de investigacion "Los contextos culinarios en la literatura del Caribe hispano y de Mexi...
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463,12 zł |
El Quijote en America
ISBN: 9789042030510 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La novela Don Quijote forma parte de la herencia comun de Espana y Latinoamerica mas que cualquier otra obra espanola. Dificilmente se encontrara a un autor hispanoamericano que no haya dado su parecer sobre el Quijote, la novela o su creador, o que no se haya aproximado, aunque solo simbolicamente, al caballero de la triste figura. Aunque el camino del Quijote por America Latina difiere de su itinerario por Espana, aquel forma una parte importante e integrante de la recepcion del Quijote. "La Mancha, en verdad, adquirio todo su sentido en las Americas", dice Carlos Fuentes destacando asi la...
La novela Don Quijote forma parte de la herencia comun de Espana y Latinoamerica mas que cualquier otra obra espanola. Dificilmente se encontrara a un...
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432,54 zł |
Traumatic Possessions: The Body and Memory in African American Women's Writing and Performance
ISBN: 9780813928845 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studies of traumatic stress have explored the challenges to memory as a result of extreme experience, particularly in relation to the ways in which trauma resonates within the survivor's body and the difficulties survivors face when trying to incorporate their experience into meaningful narratives. Jennifer Griffiths examines the attempts of several African American writers and playwrights to explore ruptures in memory after a traumatic experience and to develop creative strategies for understanding the inscription of trauma on the body in a racialized cultural context. In the... Studies of traumatic stress have explored the challenges to memory as a result of extreme experience, particularly in relation to the ways in which... |
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136,20 zł |
Carlos Drummond de Andrade: Quarenta Historinhas: E Cinco Poemas
ISBN: 9780813007892 / Portugalski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Has proved itself as successful in the classroom as its predecessor, Cronicas Brasileiras, due, in great measure, to the distinctive brazilianness of the language and to the subject matter of each historian, which in nearly all cases provides considerable stimulus for discussion. Preto-Rodas and Hower are to be commended for once again compiling an excellent textbook that lends itself to a variety of uses in intermediate Portuguese conversation and composition courses. South Atlantic Review
The editors have reproduced in their original form forty excerpts from 70 Historinhas: Antologia by... Has proved itself as successful in the classroom as its predecessor, Cronicas Brasileiras, due, in great measure, to the distinctive brazilianness of ...
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187,25 zł |
Imagination, Emblems, and Expressions: Essays on Latin American, Carribean, and Continental Culture and Identity
ISBN: 9780879725815 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book of essays--carefully written by twenty-four authorities on their subjects--provides a deep understanding of and appreciation for the coherence, primacy, and importance of the search for identity in the divergent areas of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe.
This book of essays--carefully written by twenty-four authorities on their subjects--provides a deep understanding of and appreciation for the coheren...
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172,40 zł |
The Passage of Literature
ISBN: 9780199751624 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer are writers renowned for crafting narratives of great technical skill that resonate with potent truths on the colonial condition. Yet given the generational and geographical boundaries that separated them, they are seldom considered in conjunction with one another. The Passage of Literature unites the three in a bracing comparative study that breaks away from traditional conceptions of modernism, going beyond temporal periodization and the entrenched Anglo-American framework that undergirds current scholarship. This study nimbly...
Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer are writers renowned for crafting narratives of great technical skill that resonate with potent tr...
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394,13 zł |
Tracing Dominican Identity: The Writings of Pedro Henríquez Ureña
ISBN: 9780230109377 / Angielski / Twarda / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did all things African disappear from Santo Domingo? How did a white Hispanic identity instead come to dominate the country's collective consciousness? Why did Dominican intellectuals, in trying to create a free and modern society and shield their country from North American imperialism, reengage Spanish neocolonialism? In an effort to explore these questions, the author analyzes and discusses the socio-historical meanings and implications of Pedro Henriquez Urena's (1884-1946) writings on language. This important twentieth century Latin American intellectual is an unavoidable reference...
How did all things African disappear from Santo Domingo? How did a white Hispanic identity instead come to dominate the country's collective conscious...
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195,42 zł |
Borges's Poe: The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America
ISBN: 9780820349053 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe s works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe s image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer."
Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe s works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe s i...
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231,35 zł |
Tropicalia
ISBN: 9780268042363 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Tropicalia" is a collection of poems by Emma Trelles, winner of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. The book is a melodic union between the green insistence of the subtropics and the city ensconced within. Trelles's language is detailed and startling, her poems infused with color and light, and the secret beauty of back alleys and parking lots is seamed to sorrow, hope, and land. Rock bands play among odes to Lorca and Chagall, and the hard news of protest and war lives among the simple pleasures of words and sky. ""Tropicalia" borrows its title from the Brazilian art movement of the same... "Tropicalia" is a collection of poems by Emma Trelles, winner of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. The book is a melodic union between the green ins... |
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86,31 zł |
Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema
ISBN: 9780739199534 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is the first book to examine how Latin American filmmakers represent the subjectivity of children and adolescents in an adult medium. The chapters analyze children's developing agency in diverse social contexts across Latin America.
Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is the first book to examine how Latin American filmmakers represent the subjectivity of children and adoles...
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226,23 zł |
Sub-Versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig's and Severo Sarduy's Alternative Identities
ISBN: 9781611480368 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sub-Versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig's and Severo Sarduy's Alternative Identities analyzes recent theories of the archive to examine how Manuel Puig and Severo Sarduy reformulate the Latin American literary tradition. This study focuses on eclectic theories of the archive as both repository and danger, drawing from an array of sources both within and outside the Hispanic literary tradition: from Borges, Foucault, Arrom, Derrida, Gonzalez Echevarria, and Guillory to digital media and biotechnology. This book also applies theories of cultural contamination (Maria Lugones) and symbolic...
Sub-Versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig's and Severo Sarduy's Alternative Identities analyzes recent theories of the archive to examine how Manuel Pu...
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447,08 zł |
Myth and History in the Contemporary Spanish Novel
ISBN: 9780521288460 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the Civil War, Spanish novelists have produced a noteworthy body of fiction. In this book, Jo Labanyi provides detailed textual analysis of six of the most important novels to have been written during this period: Martin-Santos' Tiempo de silencio, Benet's Volveras a Region, Marse's Si te dicen que cai, Cela's San Camilo, 1936, Juan Goytisolo's Reivindicacion del conde don Julian, and Torrente Ballester's La saga/fuga de J.B. The focus on myth as a response to history is intended as a corrective to archetypal myth criticism, and stresses the variety of ways in which Spanish novelists...
Since the Civil War, Spanish novelists have produced a noteworthy body of fiction. In this book, Jo Labanyi provides detailed textual analysis of six ...
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179,05 zł |
Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez
ISBN: 9781934768396 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1690, when Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez, penned by Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora (1645-1700), was published in Mexico, Spain already seemed to be slipping irrevocably into decadence. At the same time, history marked the epochal hearkening of the leading Puerto Rican character-narrator whose name appears on the title, and of the well-known Mexican writer, mathematician, philosopher, and historian. Both were exemplary subjects of a new hybrid race and creole culture straddling the effects that the conquest and colonization of the New World left across the American continent. To date,...
In 1690, when Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez, penned by Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora (1645-1700), was published in Mexico, Spain already seemed to be s...
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119,97 zł |
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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459,43 zł |
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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238,91 zł |
Chile in Transition: The Poetics and Politics of Memory
ISBN: 9780813035680 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A lucid and well-thought-out study of artistic expressions that evoke experiences from the years of the military dictatorship in Chile. . . . The perceptive analyses, intelligent insights, and breadth of information . . . make this book] compelling reading."--Maria Ines Lagos, University of Virginia "A lucid and well-thought-out study of artistic expressions that evoke experiences from the years of the military dictatorship in Chile. . . . The ... |
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163,09 zł |
Severo Sarduy and the Neo-Baroque Image of Thought in the Visual Arts
ISBN: 9781557536044 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers. On the other hand, he never lacked for excellent critical interpretations of his work from critics like Roberto GonzAlez EchevarrA-a, RenA(c) Prieto, Gustavo Guerrero, and other reputable scholars. Missing, however, from what is otherwise an impressive body of critical commentary, is a study of the importance of painting and architecture, first, to his theory, and second, to his creative work. In order to fill this lacuna in Sarduy studies, Rolando PA(c)rez's book undertakes a critical approach to...
Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers. On the other hand, he never lacked for excellent critical...
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209,80 zł |