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Author : María Luisa Bombal
Publisher :
Release Date : 1983
ISBN :
Pages : 141 pages
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Download PDF La ultima niebla Book by María Luisa Bombal Full eBook and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond Leslie Williams
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2009-07-21
ISBN : 0292774028
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (774 Download)
Download PDF The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel Book by Raymond Leslie Williams Full eBook and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century. Indeed, the desire to be "modern" is a constant preoccupation in twentieth-century Spanish American literature and thus a very useful lens through which to view the century's novels. In this pathfinding study, Raymond L. Williams offers the first complete analytical and critical overview of the Spanish American novel throughout the entire twentieth century. Using the desire to be modern as his organizing principle, he divides the century's novels into five periods and discusses the differing forms that "the modern" took in each era. For each period, Williams begins with a broad overview of many novels, literary contexts, and some cultural debates, followed by new readings of both canonical and significant non-canonical novels. A special feature of this book is its emphasis on women writers and other previously ignored and/or marginalized authors, including experimental and gay writers. Williams also clarifies the legacy of the Boom, the Postboom, and the Postmodern as he introduces new writers and new novelistic trends of the 1990s.
Author : Cynthia Tompkins
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2001
ISBN : 9780313311123
Pages : 364 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (313 Download)
Download PDF Notable Twentieth-century Latin American Women Book by Cynthia Tompkins Full eBook and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women is a powerful testimony to the outstanding contributions 72 of the most noteworthy women have made to their fields and to society. This volume covers a broad range of women excelling in the fields of politics, art, religion, government, education, literature, popular culture, and the sciences, with substantial, up-to-date biographical and career overviews. Many notables are international figures, such as former Nicaraguan President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Cuban Queen of Salsa Celia Cruz, and Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Others, such as the Mirabal sisters, founders of a resistance movement against a repressive Dominican Republic regime, and Carmen Naranjo, a prolific Costa Rican author and champion of culture, merit the wider recognition offered here. An excellent introduction detailing the status of Latin American women in the twentieth century is the ideal framework for appreciating the struggles of these women. In the entries, information given includes family and background details, education, influences, obstacles faced and overcome, and achievements. Each entry includes a Further Reading section to enable students and other interested readers to learn more about the woman's life. Numerous photos enhance the text.
Author : Diane E. Marting
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 1990
ISBN : 9780313251948
Pages : 678 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (313 Download)
Download PDF Spanish American Women Writers Book by Diane E. Marting Full eBook and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1990 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: superb and indispensable. . . . this guide should serve to introduce a rich lode to scholarly miners of the Latin American literary tradition. Highly recommended. Choice Containing contributions by more than fifty scholars, this volume, the second of Diane Marting's edited works on the women of the literature of Spanish America, consists of analytical and biographical studies of fifty of the most important women writers of Latin America from the seventeenth century to the present. The writers covered in the individual essays represent most Spanish-speaking American nations and a variety of literary genres. Each essay provides biographical and career information, discusses the major themes in the body of work, and surveys criticism, ending with a detailed bibliography of works by the writer, works available in translation if applicable, and works about the writer. The editor's tripartite introduction freely associates themes and images with/about/for the works of Spanish American women writers; explains the history and process of the collaborative effort that this volume represents; and traces some feminist concerns that recur in the essays, providing commentary, analysis, suggestions for further research, and hypotheses to be tested. Two general essays complete the volume. The first examines the oral testimony of contemporary Indian women outside of the literary tradition, women whose words have been recorded by others. The other surveys Latina writers in the United States, an area not otherwise encompassed in the scope of this volume. Appendixes classify the writers in the main body of the work by birth date, country, and genre. Also included is a bibliography of reference works and general criticism on the Latin American woman writer, and title and subject indexes. This book addresses the needs of students, translators, and general readers, as well as scholars, by providing a general reference work in the area of Spanish American literature. As such, it belongs in the reference collections of all libraries serving scholars and students of Latin American and women's studies and literature.
Author : María Luisa Bombal
Publisher :
Release Date : 1975
ISBN :
Pages : 183 pages
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Download PDF La Ultima Niebla Book by María Luisa Bombal Full eBook and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman
Publisher : Tamesis
Release Date : 1988
ISBN : 9780729302845
Pages : 108 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (729 Download)
Download PDF The Lyrical Vision of María Luisa Bombal Book by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman Full eBook and published by Tamesis. This book was released on 1988 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial patterns frequently reflecting the inner lives of her protagonists - alienated heroines who withdraw into an illusory world of dreams, fantasies and idealized realities where the conflict between self and other is rendered through a suggestive and contemplative network of subjective associations.
Author : G. Firmat
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2003-10-16
ISBN : 1403980926
Pages : 195 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (98 Download)
Download PDF Tongue Ties Book by G. Firmat Full eBook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Before it becomes a political, social, or even linguistic issue, bilingualism is a private affair, intimate theater'. So writes Firmat in this ground-breaking study of the interweaving of life and languages in a group of bilingual Spanish, Spanish-American and Latino writers. Unravelling the 'tongue ties' of such diverse figures as the American philosopher George Santayana, the emigré Spanish poet Pedro Salinas, Spanish American novelists Guillermo Cabrera Infante and María Luisa Bombal, and Latino memoirists Richard Rodriguez and Sandra Cisneros, Firmat argues that their careers are shaped by a linguistic family romance that involves negotiating between the competing claims and attractions of Spanish and English.
Author : Donald Leslie Shaw
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2002
ISBN : 1855660784
Pages : 270 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (66 Download)
Download PDF A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction Book by Donald Leslie Shaw Full eBook and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2002 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel ngel Asturias and Gabriel Garc a M rquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature. This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through Modernismo, Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism and protest, Spanish American fiction has evolved through successive phases in which both the conceptions of the writer's task and presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations. DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.
Author : Cynthia Duncan
Publisher : Temple University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-05
ISBN : 1439902429
Pages : 264 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (92 Download)
Download PDF Unraveling the Real Book by Cynthia Duncan Full eBook and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In literary and cinematic fictions, the fantastic blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. Lacking a consensus on definition, critics often describe the fantastic as supernatural, or similar to, but quite different from fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism. In Unraveling the Real Cynthia Duncan provides a new theoretical framework for discussing how the fantastic explores both metaphysical and socially relevant themes in Spanish American fictions. Duncan deftly shows how authors and artists have used this literary genre to convey marginalized voices as well as critique colonialism, racism, sexism, and classism. Selecting examples from the works of such noted writers as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and Carlos Fuentes, among others, she shows how capacious the concept is, and why it eludes standard definition. Challenging the notion that the fantastic is escapist in nature, Unraveling the Real shows how the fantastic has been politically engaged throughout the twentieth century, often questioning what is real or unreal. Presenting a mirror image of reality, the fantastic does not promoting a utopian parallel universe but rather challenges the way we think about the world around us and the cultural legacy of colonialism.
Author : María Claudia André
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2014-01-09
ISBN : 1317726340
Pages : 612 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (726 Download)
Download PDF Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia Book by María Claudia André Full eBook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies. Focusing on drama, poetry, and fiction, this work includes authors who have published at least three literary texts that have had a significant impact on Latin American literature and culture. Each entry is followed by extensive bibliographic references, including primary and secondary sources. Coverage consists of critical appreciation and analysis of the writers' works. Brief biographical data is included, but the main focus is on the meanings and contexts of the works as well as their cultural and political impact. In addition to author entries, other themes are explored, such as humor in contemporary Latin American fiction, lesbian literature in Latin America, magic, realism, or mother images in Latin American literature. The aim is to provide a unique, thorough, scholarly survey of women writers and their works in Latin America. This Encyclopedia will be of interest to both to the student of literature as well as to any reader interested in understanding more about Latin American culture, literature, and how women have represented gender and national issues throughout the centuries.
Author : Seminar on Feminism & Culture in Latin America
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1992-02-25
ISBN : 9780520909076
Pages : 292 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (52 Download)
Download PDF Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America Book by Seminar on Feminism & Culture in Latin America Full eBook and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-02-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women’s participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century.
Author : Roberto Ignacio Díaz
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2002
ISBN : 9780838754894
Pages : 260 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (838 Download)
Download PDF Unhomely Rooms Book by Roberto Ignacio Díaz Full eBook and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as he exposes the cultural fragmentation of Spanish America, Diaz's critical gesture allows strangeness to become an integral part not only of individuals, as Freud argues in "The Uncanny," but also of national cultural communities."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ashley Hope Ray
Publisher :
Release Date : 2004
ISBN :
Pages : 92 pages
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Download PDF The final mist Book by Ashley Hope Ray Full eBook and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Release Date : 2009
ISBN : 9780838641729
Pages : 284 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (838 Download)
Download PDF Subversive Silences Book by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson Full eBook and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weldt-Basson (Spanish, Wayne State U.) investigates how seven Latin American women writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have used the concept of submissive silence in their works as a sign of women's rebellion against the passive silence imposed by patriarchy. Using different theoretical perspectives in each chapter, she demonstrates how Marta Brunet, Maria Luisa Bombal, Rosario Castellanos, Isabel Allende, Rosario Ferre, Laura Esquivel, and Sandra Cisneros have used silence thematically and stylistically through hyperbole, coding, irony, parody, and cultural symbol and how silence reflects different time periods and countries.
Author : Donald Haase
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2004-08-18
ISBN : 0814340822
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (34 Download)
Download PDF Fairy Tales and Feminism Book by Donald Haase Full eBook and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, feminists focused critical attention on fairy tales and broke the spell that had enchanted readers for centuries. By exposing the role of fairy tales in the cultural struggle over gender, feminism transformed fairy-tale studies and sparked a debate that would change the way society thinks about fairy tales and the words "happily ever after." Now, after three decades of provocative criticism and controversy, this book reevaluates the feminist critique of fairy tales. The eleven essays within Fairy Tales and Feminism challenge and rethink conventional wisdom about the fairy-tale heroine and offer new insights into the tales produced by female writers and storytellers. Resisting a one-dimensional view of the woman-centered fairy tale, each essay reveals ambiguities in female-authored tales and the remarkable potential of classical tales to elicit unexpected responses from women. Exploring new texts and contexts, Fairy Tales and Feminism reaches out beyond the national and cultural boundaries that have limited our understanding of the fairy tale. The authors reconsider the fairy tale in French, German, and Anglo-American contexts and also engage African, Indian Ocean, Iberian, Latin American, Indo-Anglian, and South Asian diasporic texts. Also considered within this volume is how film, television, advertising, and the Internet test the fairy tale's boundaries and its traditional authority in defining gender. From the Middle Ages to the postmodern age-from the French fabliau to Hollywood's Ever After and television's Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?-the essays assembled here cover a broad range of topics that map new territory for fairy-tale studies. Framed by a critical survey of feminist fairy-tale scholarship and an extensive bibliography-the most comprehensive listing of women-centered fairy-tale research ever assembled-Fairy Tales and Feminism is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the intersection of fairy tales and feminism.
Author : Juan E. De Castro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-03-07
ISBN : 0197541852
Pages : 889 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (541 Download)
Download PDF The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel Book by Juan E. De Castro Full eBook and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latin American novel burst onto the international literary scene with the Boom era--led by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa--and has influenced writers throughout the world ever since. García Márquez and Vargas Llosa each received the Nobel Prize in literature, and many of the best-known contemporary novelists are inspired by the region's fiction. Indeed, magical realism, the style associated with García Márquez, has left a profound imprint on African American, African, Asian, Anglophone Caribbean, and Latinx writers. Furthermore, post-Boom literature continues to garner interest, from the novels of Roberto Bolaño to the works of César Aira and Chico Buarque, to those of younger novelists such as Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Alejandro Zambra, and Valeria Luiselli. Yet, for many readers, the Latin American novel is often read in a piecemeal manner delinked from the traditions, authors, and social contexts that help explain its evolution. The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel draws literary, historical, and social connections so that readers will come away understanding this literature as a rich and compelling canon. In forty-five chapters by leading and innovative scholars, the Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction, helping readers to see the region's intrinsic heterogeneity--for only with a broader view can one fully appreciate García Márquez or Bolaño. This volume charts the literary tradition of the Latin American novel from its beginnings during colonial times, its development during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, and its flourishing from the 1960s onward. Furthermore, the Handbook explores the regions, representations of identity, narrative trends, and authors that make this literature so diverse and fascinating, reflecting on the Latin American novel's position in world literature.
Author : Verity Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 1997-03-26
ISBN : 113531425X
Pages : 1781 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (314 Download)
Download PDF Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature Book by Verity Smith Full eBook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997-03-26 with total page 1781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book
