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The Mexico City Reader Author: Ruben Gallo
ISBN: 9780299197148 'The Mexico City Reader' is an anthology of "cronicas" - short texts that are a cross between literary essay and urban reportage - about life in Mexico City today. Taken together in all their variety, these texts form a mosaic of life in Mexico City. |
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Territories of History Author: Sarah H. Beckjord
ISBN: 9780271032795 Explores the unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In highlighting the parallels between the sixteenth-century debates and post-structuralist approaches to the study of history, this book uncovers a legacy of the Hispanic intellectual traditio ... |
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A Personal Anthology Author: Jorge Luis Borges
ISBN: 9780802130778 After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work--short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant sketches, which, in Borges's hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters. |
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Jose Marti Reader Author: Jose Marti
ISBN: 9781920888749 [MartA-] added a social agenda to the historic program of national liberation and instantly converted a movement devoted to the establishment of a new nation into a force dedicated to shaping a new society. MartA- transformed rebellion into revolution. . . . Like a master weaver, MartA- pulled together all the separate ... |
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New World/New Words Author: Thomas Christensen
ISBN: 9781931883139 This fully bilingual (Spanish/English) anthology of Latin American literature showcases the region's enormous vitality and variety of writing. New World/New Words includes selections by widely celebrated writers such as Gabriel Garca Mrquez, Julio Cortzar, and Senel Paz, as well as work by emerging authors just beginni ... |
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Yiddish South of the Border Author: Alan Astro
ISBN: 9780826323484 Alan Astro has compiled the first anthology of Latin American Yiddish writings translated into English. Included are works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, and Cuba, with one brief memoir by a Russian rabbi who arrived in San Antonio, Texas, in 1910. Literature has alwa ... |
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The Butterfly's Way Author: Edwidge Danticat
ISBN: 9781569472187 In four sections -- Childhood, Migration, First Generation, and Return -- the contributors to this anthology write powerfully, often hauntingly, of their lives in Haiti and the United States. Jean-Robert Cadet's description of his Haitian childhood as a restavec -- a child slave -- in Port-au-Prince contrasts with Dany ... |
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Caribbean Women: v. 1 Author: Veronica Marie Gregg
ISBN: 9780268029609 Volume 1, of an anthology of non-fiction writings by Caribbean women, from the turn of the nineteenth century to 1980. It builds on existing bodies of knowledge and inquiry into women's lives and their contributions to the creation and development of Caribbean intellectual history. A resource for students and professor ... |
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Dreamtigers Author: Jorge Luis Borges
ISBN: 9780292715493 Heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J Adler, editor of "Great Books of the Western World", this work is composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations. It explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and ... |
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Women Writing Resistance Author: Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
ISBN: 9780896087088 Eighteen women are featured in this powerful anthology on art, feminism, and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Women Writing Resistance unearths an emerging tradition of Latin American and Caribbean women writers who, with increasing urgency, are writing in the service of social justice and against the entre ... |
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| In the Language of Kings Author: Miguel Leon-Portilla & Earl Shorris
ISBN: 9780393324075 From new interpretations of the glyphic writings of the Maya through the poetic response to events in modern Chiapas, here is a history of Mexico and Central America from the Indian point of view. In these pages the reader will encounter, often in new translations, the deeply affecting Aztec poems, the horrific battles ... |
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The Portable Island Author: Lucia M Suarez & Ruth Behar
ISBN: 9780230604773 Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellow Cubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching. How do Cubans confront their condition as an uprooted people? "The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World "offers a ... |
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Cubanisimo! Author: Cristina Garcia
ISBN: 9780385721370 Cubanisimo! is the first book to gather Cuban stories, essays, poems and novel excerpts in one volume that summarizes the richness and depth of a great national literature. From the turn of the century to the present, from Havana to Miami, New York, Mexico City, Madrid and beyond, the spirit and diversity of Cuban cult ... |
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House of Memory Author: Marjorie Agosin
ISBN: 9781558612099 For the first time, the work of contemporary Jewish women writers from throughout Latin America is gathered together in one captivating collection. These 22 stories are by such internationally acclaimed writers as Brazilian Clarice Lispector and Mexican Margo Glantz, along with many writers here introduced to English s ... |
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Essays in Cuban Intellectual History Author: Rafael Rojas
ISBN: 9780230603004 Well-known essayist and Cuban historian Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work, one which focuses on--and offers alternatives to--the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Rojas explores the most important themes of Cuban intellectual history, including ... |
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The Speed of Dreams Author: Subcomandante Marcos
ISBN: 9780872864788 Since the publication of Our Word Is Our Weapon-which Publishers Weekly described as strong as dignity and as subtle as love-Mexico's enigmatic Zapatista leader has written some of his most brilliant and complex works. From a retelling of indigenous myths and legends, to visions of the future of Mexico, from searing cr ... |
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