Books in the Latin America series

Comunidades efimeras estudia una de las vetas mas interesantes, y menos visitadas por la critica, de la imaginacion literaria hispanoamericana: la representacion novelistica de pequenos grupos de vanguardia y neovanguardia que transforman la vida en arte, conspiran contra las instituciones oficiales y experimentan con nuevos modelos de existencia social.

En este libro analizo las novelas de los autores latinoamericanos del siglo XX y XXI a través del psicoanálisis de Jacques Lacan. Las obras analizadas son de Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Luisa Valenzuela, Antonio Skármeta, Roberto Bolaño, Poli Délano. Estas obras comparten su repudio por el psique complejo y contradictorio del individuo, quien juega con su identidad, no permitiendo la injerencia de dictámenes autoritarios, pero buscando a la vez, y de modo exasperado, anclajes en el mismo sistema simbólico que le den sentido a la falta de identidad. Esto explica el porqué de comportamientos contradictorios en la serie de novelas, donde el dominio del Otro y recurrente rebelión contra su dominación, se intuye que el yo individual no busca la separación definitiva de su tiranía. Más bien, aspira a su liberación mediante el sometimiento a otro dominio. Los casos estudiados en esta serie de obras, guardan relación con esta tesis en el sentido que ilustran las posibles variantes empleadas por el sujeto, cuya liberación conlleva a otra instancia de subyugación.

Este trabajo estudia a fondo la produccion dramatica de Rosario Castellanos.

Over the last half of nineteenth and first half of twentieth centuries, rising secular liberalism led many Catholic Church leaders in Latin America and Rome to believe that the Church was in a state of crisis. This book examines the experiences of young clerics in Rome and effects of their Roman education on their home dioceses after their return.

Diffusion of Gender Quotas in Latin America and Beyond

Forro and Redemptive Regionalism from the Brazilian Northeast

En este libro Eduardo Gonzalez Castillo presenta el estudio de una de las manifestaciones de la cultura popular urbana menos estudiadas en el Mexico contemporaneo: el medio sonidero.

Lays bare the underlying logic of a Latin Americanist discourse through some of the continent's influential thinkers, including Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jose Marti, Jose Enrique Rodo, Jose Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Nestor Garcia Canclini, and Walter Mignolo.

Offers a literary analysis of the most important documents in the Hernan Cortes trial of residency (juicio de residencia) using some proposed literary tools created for that purpose and the original documents in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville as well as a variety of books on Hernan Cortes.

Casa en que nunca he sido extrana reune articulos de destacados academicos y estudiosos de Europa y America con aproximaciones a relevantes autoras de la poesia de America Latina desde el siglo XIX.

This volume is an invaluable tool for scholars, professors, and students of Latin American studies and students of history and literature interested in the history of the conquest of the Andean region as well as a must read for those fascinated by the history, civilization, and culture of Peru and the Andean region in particular and the Americas in general.

Subaltern Writings focuses on one of the most important Brazilian novelists of the first half of the 20th century, Graciliano Ramos, examining the configurations of writing in two of his novels, Caetes and Angustia. Subaltern Writings is of interest to those in the fields of Luso-Brazilian and Latin American studies.

Poema heroyco hispano-latino (1687), a national chronicle or ¿epic poem,¿ commemorates the founding and greatness of Lima, Peru. Its unique rhymed quatrains can be read in either Latin or Spanish with equal meaning, and its insightful marginal notes interpret the city¿s cultural history. Rodrigo de Valdés (1609¿1682) underscores the decadence of peninsular Spanish letters in contrast to the compositions of New World writers. The poem is a tribute to the superiority, versatility, and interchangeability of Spanish and Latin as instruments of power that led to Spain¿s world dominance, and to Lima as the locus of marvels and a quasi biblical garden of delights. Lima has occupied without exception a privileged space within the colonial situation, as a metaphorical sovereign of new-world experiences and potentialities. Influenced by the spirit of Baroque sensibilities and Creole pride in his patria, Valdés bequeathed to Lima a staged panegyric that served as King Charles II¿s introduction to the bounty of his American colony. Valdés, acting as commentator, guides the reader through a journey that spans centuries of Perüs illustrious history. Working within the classical tradition of laus urbis or the praise of cities, Valdés depicts America as a paradise found with Lima at its center. In tracing the poem¿s relationship to the genre of classical panegyrics, Neal A. Messer and Jerry M. Williams argue its literary merits and elucidate how it enriches the colonial family of Latin American texts. Republished for the first time, this critical edition introduces Valdés to students and scholars of Ibero-American letters.