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  • Salvage Work

    U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood

    by Angela Naimou ...
    Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law’s construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative figure for contemporary legal personhood across categories of race, citizenship, gender, and labor. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview

    And Other Conversations

    Series series The Last Interview Series
    With the release of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in 1998, journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer “capable of befriending his readers.” After exchanging several letters with Bolaño, Maristain formed a friendship of her own, culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist about truth and consequences, an interview that turned out to be Bolaño’s last.Appearing for the first ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Signs of the Americas

    A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu

    by Edgar Garcia ...
    Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia makes clear in Signs of the Americas. Rather than being dead languages, these sign-systems have always been living, evolving signifiers, responsive to their circumstances and able to continuously redefine ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Dude Lit

    Mexican Men Writing and Performing Competence, 1955–2012

    by Emily Hind ...
    How did men become the stars of the Mexican intellectual scene? Dude Lit examines the tricks of the trade and reveals that sometimes literary genius rests on privileges that men extend one another and that women permit.The makings of the “best” writers have to do with superficial aspects, like conformist wardrobes and unsmiling expressions, and more complex techniques, such as friendship networks, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Diálogo de voces

    Nuevas lecturas sobre la obra de María Rosa Lojo

    Edited by Marcela Crespo Buiturón ...
    Series series Literatura y Cultura
    Este volumen, compuesto por ocho ensayos y una suerte de epilogo dialogado con la escritora Maria Rosa Lojo, discute algunos de los ejes vertebradores de su obra: la conflictiva relacion con lo sagrado y su constante interpelacion, la memoria de la inmigracion, la presencia de figuras femeninas cuestionadoras del discurso masculino hegemonico o de otros personajes marginales que resignifican la ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology

    Edited by Roberto Santiago ...
    MANY CULTURES * ONE WORLD"Boricua is what Puerto Ricans call one another as a term of endearment, respect, and cultural affirmation; it is a timeless declaration that transcends gender and color. Boricua is a powerful word that tells the origin and history of the Puerto Rican people."--From the IntroductionFrom the sun-drenched beaches of a beautiful, flamboyan-covered island to the cool, hard ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Travels in a Thin Country

    A Journey Through Chile

    by Sara Wheeler ...
    Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. Eloquent, astute, nimble with history and deftly amusing, Travels in a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • How to Read Donald Duck

    Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic

    “ A literary grandmaster.” —TimeFirst published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third edition was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the imperialist, capitalist ideology at work in our most beloved cartoons.Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney—curiously parentless, marginalized, always short ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei

    Volume One: The Gathering

    by David Tod Roy ...
    Series Book 56 - Princeton Library of Asian Translations
    In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • 100 Clásicos de la Literatura Universal

    Vol.2

    Series Book 2 - Best Sellers en español
    Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa.El Gran Gatsby por Francis Scott FitzgeraldEl Mago de Oz por Lyman Frank BaumCanción de Navidad por Charles DickensLos Muchachos de Jo por Louisa May AlcottEl Convivio por Dante AlighieriPersuasión por Jane AustenMansfield Park por Jane AustenEl Diccion... ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gabriel García Márquez

    by Gerald Martin ...
    In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez.Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, from his upbringing in backwater Colombia and early journalism career, to the publication of One Hundred ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature

    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar WildeWriting for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings’ kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

    Translated by Michael Henry Heim ...
    Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life—or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime’s worth of stories. Thus we learn of amatory ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Alternating Current

    by Octavio Paz ...
    In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz “an intellectual literary one-man band” for his ability to write incisively and with dazzling originality about a wide range of subjects. This collection of his essays is divided into three parts. Part 1 sets forth his credo as an artist and poet, steeped in his knowledge of world literature and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

    Series series New Accents
    The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Allegories of the Anthropocene

    In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. In these works, authors and artists use allegory as a means to understand the multiscalar complexities of the Anthropocene and to critique the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview

    and Other Conversations

    Translated by Kit Maude ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    “Believe me: the benefits of blindness have been greatly exaggerated. If I could see, I would never leave the house, I’d stay indoors reading the many books that surround me.”—Jorge Luis BorgesDays before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • La Malinche in Mexican Literature

    From History to Myth

    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Of all the historical characters known from the time of the Spanish conquest of the New World, none has proved more pervasive or controversial than that of the Indian interpreter, guide, mistress, and confidante of Hernán Cortés, Doña Marina—La Malinche—Malintzin. The mother of Cortés's son, she becomes not only the mother of the mestizo but also the Mexican Eve, the symbol of national betrayal ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The First Class

    Transits of Brazilian Literature Abroad

    What does a professor Brazilian or otherwise think and do on the first day of class, standing before a group of “foreign” students to talk about Brazilian literature? This apparently simple question that gave rise to the essays gathered in this book opens a series of other questions: Who is this professor? How did he or she go about planning that first class? What challenges do professors ... Read more

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  • Versos Sencillos

    A Dual-Language Edition

    by José Martí ...
    Translated by Anne Fountain ...
    In 1890, the great Cuban revolutionary leader Jose Marti wrote his most famous poetry, Versos Sencillos, in a small town called Haines Falls in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Sincere and intensely personal in tone, these verses form a unique autobiographical expression yet have world-wide appeal.This dual-language edition of Versos Sencillos offers both the Spanish-language original and a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Exotic Nations

    Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930

    In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil assimilated and subverted European images of an "exotic" New World to create new literatures that asserted cultural independence and defined national identity. Exotic Nations demonstrates that the language ... Read more

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  • Mujer, cuerpo y escritura en la narrativa de María Luisa Bombal

    by Lucía Guerra ...
    Varios años después de la publicación de “La narrativa de María Luisa Bombal, una visión de la existencia femenina", Lucía Guerra nos entrega ahora este volumen que se basa en su anterior estudio sobre la obra de Bombal, pero toma un vuelo propio y profundo, ya que añade y reformula muchísimos elementos de la obra de la escritora chilena. Además de analizar el corpus total de su producción ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Catching Fire

    A Translation Diary

    by Daniel Hahn ...
    Series series Untranslated Series
    An energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.In Catching Fire , the translation of Diamela Eltit's Never Did the Fire unfolds in real time as a conversation between works of art, illuminating both in the process. The problems and pleasures of conveying literature into another language—what happens when you meet a pun? a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Migratory Birds

    Translated by Julia Sanches ...
    Series series Undelivered Lectures
    Winner of the PEN Translation Prize"Pondering revolutionary Cuba, the Berlin Wall, and the caves of Cappadocia, these essays explore themes of memory, war, movement, and home."—The New Yorker"A thoughtful, roving meditation on migration, language, and home."—Publishers WeeklyIn her prize-winning debut, Mexican essayist Mariana Oliver trains her gaze on migration in its many forms, moving between ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus