Hispanic and Latin American Studies
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- Can Literature Promote Justice?
- Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio
- As if in direct response to The New Yorker's question of "The Power of the Pen: Does Literature Change Anything?" Kimberly Nance takes up the relationship between ethics and literature. Wit...
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- Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity
- In Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity, Van Delden argues that there is a fundamental paradox at the heart of Fuentes's vision of Mexico and in his role as novelist and critic in putting f...
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- Cervantes in Algiers
- A Captive's Tale
- Returning to Spain after fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and other Mediterranean campaigns against the Turks, the soldier Miguel de Cervantes was captured by Barbary pirates and taken captive to ...
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- Dance Between Two Cultures
- Latino Caribbean Literature Written in the United States
- 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.
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- Early Modern Women's Writing and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
- This book maps the field of seventeenth-century women's writing in Spanish, English, and French and situates the work of Sor Juana more clearly within that field. It holds up the multi-layered, pro...
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- An Erotic Philology of Golden Age Spain
- Early modern Spanish literature is remarkably rich in erotic texts that conventionally chaste critical traditions have willfully disregarded or repudiated as inferior or unworthy of study. Nonethe...
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- The Ethics of Autobiography
- Replacing the Subject in Modern Spain
- In this new book, Angel Loureiro proposes an ethics of autobiography that will change the way the genre is perceived. Previous studies of autobiography have focused primarily on the strategies of s...
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- Exile and Cultural Hegemony
- Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico, 1939-1975
- After Francisco Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, a great many of the country's intellectuals went into exile in Mexico. During the three and a half decades of Francoist dictatorship, the...
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- Gender and Nation in the Spanish Modernist Novel
- Offering a fresh, revisionist analysis of Spanish fiction from 1900 to 1940, this study examines the work of both men and women writers and how they practiced differing forms of modernism. As Rober...
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- Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba
- The Travels of Santa Cruz y Montalvo, Condesa de Merlin
- Author of novels, memoirs, and travel writings, Maria de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, better known as la Condesa de Merlin (1789-1852), is arguably one of Cuba's most engaging authors; yet u...
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- Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America
- A Postal Inspector's Expose
- Using El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (the "Guide for Blind Rovers" by Alonso Carrio de Lavandera, the best known work of the era) as a jumping off point for a sprawling discussion of 18t...
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- History and Memory in the Two Souths
- Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction
- It is commonplace among literary critics to refer to William Faulkner's influence on Spanish American literature. Yet few studies have delved seriously into why the attraction of the writings of th...
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- The Lives of Women
- A New History of Inquisitional Spain
- Recovering voices long relegated to silence, The Lives of Women deciphers the responses of women to the culture of control in seventeenth-century Spain. In this new history of Inquisitional ...
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- Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain
- Using the one-act comedy El parto de Juan Rana (John Frog Gives Birth) as a point of departure, Velasco argues that the figure of the pregnant man in early modern Spanish culture was not mer...
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- Mexico, From Mestizo to Multicultural
- National Identity and Recent Representations of the Conquest
- In Mexico, the confluence of the 1992 Quincentennial commemoration of Columbus's voyages and the neo-liberal sexenio, or presidency, of Carlos Salinas de Gortari spurred artistic creations t...
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- Murder and Masculinity
- Violent Fictions of Twentieth-Century Latin America
- Rebecca Biron breaks new ground in this study of masculinity, violence, and the strategic construction of collective political identities in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. By engaging cu...
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- Ordinary Enchantments
- Magical Realism and the Remystification of Narrative
- Ordinary Enchantments investigates magical realism as the most important trend in contemporary international fiction, defines its characteristics and narrative techniques, and proposes a new...
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- Properties of Modernity
- Romantic Spain, Modern Europe, and the Legacies of Empire
- Michael Iarocci traces the ways in which Spain went from being central to European history and identity during the early modern period to being marginalized and displaced by England, France, and Ge...
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- Return to Havana
- The Decline of Cuban Society Under Castro
- An insightful personal memoir that contrasts firsthand the dream of the Cuban Revolution as it was in the early 1960s with the deprivations, hardships, and loss of hope that haunt Cuban society today.
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- Son of Andalusia
- The Lyrical Landscapes of Federico Garcia Lorca
- A pathbreaking account of the influence and context of Andalusian life and art in the poetry and drama of Federico Garcia Lorca.
Andalusia was the central feature and influence in the life and w...
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- A Stranger in My Own Land
- Sofia Casanova, a Spanish Writer in the European Fin de Siecle
- This is the first in-depth analysis of the works of the Galician-Spanish expatriate writer Sofa Casanova (1861-1958), a transnational poet, novelist, journalist, playwright, campaigner, translator,...
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- Temptation of the Word
- The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa
- Choice Outstanding Academic Book 1998
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- Tilting Cervantes
- Baroque Reflections on Postmodern Culture
- Tilting Cervantes examines several contemporary texts -- Fight Club, Brazil, The Matrix, and The Moor's Last Sigh, among others -- by reflecting them against a cluster of early...
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- The Utopian Nexus in Don Quixote
- Jehenson and Dunn explore the mythic utopian desires that drive Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in Don Quixote. By tracing the discourses surrounding what they identify as a myth of abundance ...
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- Gunshots at the Fiesta
- Literature and Politics in Latin America
- The product of a unique collaboration between a literary critic (Van Delden) and a political scientist (Grenier), this book looks at the relationship between literature and politics in Latin Americ...
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- Mexico Reading the United States
- 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...
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- Teresa de Avila, Lettered Woman
- In 1562, Teresa de Avila founded the Discalced Carmelites and launched a reform movement that would pit her against the Church hierarchy and the male officials of her own religious order. This new ...
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- Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America
- Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations
- How did culture and identity take root as the new nations and state institutions were being fashioned across Latin America after the wars of independence? These original essays tease out the power...
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- The Inverted Conquest
- The Myth of Modernity and the Transatlantic Onset of Modernism
- Modernismo (1880s-1920s) is considered one of the most groundbreaking literary movements in Hispanic history, as it transformed literature in Spanish to an extent not seen since the Renaissa...
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- Maximilian, Mexico, and the Invention of Empire
- In Maximilian, Mexico, and the Invention of Empire, the cultural legacy of the Second Mexican Empire is examined as essential to modern understandings of empire and nation. The Second Empire...
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- Tropes of Enlightenment in the Age of Bolivar
- Simon Rodriguez and the American Essay at Revolution
- In Tropes of Enlightenment in the Age of Bolivar, Ronald Briggs shines a much-needed light on the writings and life of Simon Rodriguez, early tutor to the hero of Latin American independence...
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