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Just Below South : Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South
Jessica Adams
Paperback - $49.95
"Just Below South" is the first book to examine the U.S. South and the Caribbean as a "regional interculture" shaped by performance--as a space defined not so much by a shared set of geographical boundaries or by a single, common culture as by the we ...
Until Judgement Comes : Stories about Jamaican Men
Opal Palmer Adisa
Paperback - $39.95
Sensitive and imaginative, this collection of short stories explores the Jamaican male psyche through free-flowing narratives, stories within stories, and modern versions of folktales and myths. Structured around the author's lifetime of experiences ...
Julio Cortazar
Carlos J. Alonso
Hardcover - $233.95
The essays gathered here address the Argentine writer Julio Cortá zar's oeuvre from a variety of critical positions and focus on several of his multifarious writings: poems, short stories, novels, and miscellanea. The intention has been to provi ...
The Francophone Caribbean Today : Literature, Language, Culture
Gertrud Aub-Buscher
Paperback - $51.95
"The volume sets out to provide a panorama of the diversity of the Francophone Caribbean, an area which is becoming ever more widely studied in Anglophone university departments of French studies. . . . The increasing interest of students of French a ...
The Letter of Violence : Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics
Idelber Avelar
Paperback - $58.95
This book traces the theory of violence from nineteenth-century symmetrical warfare through today's warfare of electronics and unbalanced numbers. Surveying such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Paul Virilio, and Jacques De ...
The Untimely Present : Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning
Idelber Avelar
Paperback - $49.95
The Untimely Present examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the twentieth century's Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Idelber Avelar argues that through their legacy of social trauma and thei ...
Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing
Damian Baca
Hardcover - $148.95
Conventional scholarship on written communication positions the Western alphabet as a precondition for literacy. Thus, pictographic, non-verbal writing practices of Mesoamerica remain obscured by representations of lettered speech. This book examines ...
Peralta Barnuevo and the Art of Propaganda : Politics, Poetry, and Religion in 18th Century Lima
Pedro De Peralta Barnuevo
Paperback - $43.95
Julio Cortazar (Maj SS Wrtr)
Elizabeth Beaudin
Hardcover - $69.95
- User's guide
- Editor's note and introduction by Harold Bloom
- Biography of the short story writer
- List of characters in each story
- Detailed thematic analysis of each short story
- Extracts from major critical essays that discus ...
