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Book Catalog of the Latin American Collection

Download or read book Catalog of the Latin American Collection written by University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American Collection and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adios  Happy Homeland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ana Menéndez
  • Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
  • Release : 2011-08-02
  • ISBN : 0802195520
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Adios Happy Homeland written by Ana Menéndez and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award–winning author of In Cuba I was a German Shepherd, short stories with a magical and modern take on the idea of migration and flight. Adios, Happy Homeland! is a collection of interlinked tales that challenge our preconceptions of storytelling. It examines the life of the Cuban writer, deconstructing and reassembling the myths that define her culture. It blends illusion with reality and explores themes of art, family, language, superstition, and the overwhelming need to escape—from the island, from memory, from stereotype, and, ultimately, from the self. We’re taken into a sick man’s fever dream as he waits for a train beneath a strange night sky, into a community of parachute makers facing the end in a windy town that no longer exists, and onto a Cuban beach where the body of a boy last seen on a boat bound for America turns out to be a giant jellyfish. With Adios, Happy Homeland!, Menéndez puts a contemporary twist on the troubled history of Cuba and offers a wry and poignant perspective on the conundrum of cultural displacement.

Book Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston

Download or read book Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gigantesco  Libro de Los Mejores Cuentos   Volume 1

Download or read book Gigantesco Libro de Los Mejores Cuentos Volume 1 written by Abraham Valdelomar and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 3002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro contiene 350 cuentos de 50 autores clásicos, premiados y notables. Elegida sabiamente por el crítico literario August Nemo para la serie de libros 7 Mejores Cuentos, esta antología contiene los cuentos de los siguientes escritores: - Abraham Valdelomar - Antón Chéjov - Antonio de Trueba - Arturo Reyes - Baldomero Lillo - César Vallejo - Charles Perrault - Edgar Allan Poe - Emilia Pardo Bazán - Fray Mocho - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer - Horacio Quiroga - Joaquín Díaz Garcés - Joaquín Dicenta - José Martí - José Ortega Munilla - Juan Valera - Julia de Asensi - Leonid Andréiev - Leopoldo Alas - Leopoldo Lugones - Oscar Wilde - Ricardo Güiraldes - Roberto Arlt - Roberto Payró - Rubén Darío - Soledad Acosta de Samper - Teodoro Baró - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - Washington Irving - Alfred de Musset - Marqués de Sade - Saki - Marcel Schwob - Iván Turguéniev - Julio Verne - Émile Zola - Villiers de L'Isle Adam - Mark Twain - León Tolstoi - Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Ambrose Bierce - Mijaíl Bulgákov - Lewis Carroll - Arthur Conan Doyle - James Joyce - Franz Kafka - H. P. Lovecraft - Machado de Assis - Guy de Maupassant

Book The Radical Insufficiency of Human Life

Download or read book The Radical Insufficiency of Human Life written by Aileen Dever and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postromantic works of the Spaniard Rosalía de Castro and the Colombian José Asunción Silva are indispensable in any anthology of 19th century Spanish and Latin American poetry. However, they found few appreciative readers during their lifetimes, even while displaying two of the most sincere voices of the day. Dever's book is unique: it is the first comparison of Castro's and Silva's poetry. Their works have meaningful differences but share remarkable likenesses in theme, tone, and style, though it is doubtful that either was aware of the other's existence. Of interest to feminist critics is an interpretation of Castro's literary vocation within a patriarchal society. Using the ideas of three 20th century Spanish thinkers, José Ortega y Gasset, Xavier Zubiri, and Pedro Laín Entralgo, Dever applies the concept of radical insufficiency to a comparison of the poets' works. Radical insufficiency holds that humans lack a determined being and fixed course for life, thus norms are not available to make the world intelligible. Humans experience feelings of uncertainty and emptiness, which inevitably lead to anxiety. Confronted by the mystery and pathos of human life, Castro and Silva both describe futile attempts to overcome this insufficiency through creation and contemplation of art, human relationships, and religion. The significance of these writers has transcended their own time; when examined in the context of Spanish and Latin American authors and thinkers who succeeded them, the importance of their works will continue to grow.

Book Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater written by Eladio Cortes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American culture has given birth to numerous dramatic works, though it has often been difficult to locate information about these plays and playwrights. This volume traces the history of Latin American theater, including the Nuyorican and Chicano theaters of the United States, and surveys its history from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Sections cover individual Latin American countries. Each section features alphabetically arranged entries for playwrights, independent theaters, and cultural movements. The volume begins with an overview of the development of theater in Latin America. Each of the country sections begins with an introductory survey and concludes with copious bibliographical information. The entries for playwrights provide factual information about the dramatist's life and works and place the author within the larger context of international literature. Each entry closes with a list of works by and about the playwright. A selected, general bibliography appears at the end of the volume.

Book Gran Libro de Los Mejores Cuentos  Volumen 5

Download or read book Gran Libro de Los Mejores Cuentos Volumen 5 written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro contiene 70 cuentos de 10 autores clásicos, premiados y notables. Los cuentos fueron cuidadosamente seleccionados por el crítico August Nemo, en una colección que encantará a los amantes de la literatura. Para lo mejor de la literatura mundial, asegúrese de consultar los otros libros de Tacet Books. Este libro contiene: Ryunosuke Akutagawa: - Rashomon. - En el Bosque. - Sennin. - Kappa. - La Nariz. - Cuerpo de Mujer. - El Gran Terremoto.Ambrose Bierce: - El incidente del Puente del Búho. - El caso del desfiladero de Coulter. - Un habitante de Carcosa. - El monje y la hija del verdugo. - Un habitante de Carcosa. - Chickamauga. - Una tumba sin fondo.Mijaíl Bulgákov: - Bautismo de fuego. - La erupción estrelada. - La garganta de acero. - La toalla con el gallo rojo. - Morfina. - Tinieblas egípcias. - Un ojo desaparecido.Lewis Carroll: - Lo que la tortuga le dijo a Aquiles. - El bosque donde las cosas pierden el nombre. - Carrera en comité. - Como al principio. - Moverse del lado del espejo. - Resta. - Tratar con el tempo.Arthur Conan Doyle: - Un escándalo en Bohemia. - El gato del Brasil. - El pie del diablo. - La aventura de las cinco semillas de naranja. - La aventura de un caso de identidade. - La aventura de la segunda mancha. - La aventura de la inquilina del velo.James Joyce: - Eveline. - Efemérides en el comité. - Arabia. - Después de la carrera. - Una nubecilla. - Dos galanes. - La pensión.Franz Kafka: - Un artista del hambre. - La colonia penitenciaria. - Un médico rural. - Una mujercita. - Una hoja vieja. - Las preocupaciones de un padre de familia. - La metamorfosis.H. P. Lovecraft: - La llamada de Cthulhu. - La música de Erich Zann. - El extraño. - Historia del Necronomicón. - La decisión de Randolph Carter. - El color que cayó del cielo. - El Terrible Anciano.Machado de Assis: - Misa de gallo. - Un hombre célebre. - Cántiga de los esponsales. - El reloj de oro. - Un apólogo. - La causa secreta. - El alienista.Guy de Maupassant: - Bola de Sebo. - El collar. - El Horla. - Ese cerdo de Morin. - La cama 29. - ¿Quién sabe? - Miss Harriet

Book The Latin American Short Story

Download or read book The Latin American Short Story written by Daniel Balderston and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1992-05-20 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormous body of short story anthologies from the nineteen countries of Spanish America and Brazil testifies to their importance for writers, editors, readers, and, especially, for schools and universities, teachers and students. The study of anthologies and their contents can be particularly revealing for many of the questions looming large in critical discourse, particularly those on canon formation and the relations between literature and cultural institutions; but researching this corpus is difficult because it varies greatly in quality, distribution, and format. The present volume for the first time gathers this mass of material and organizes it for systematic study. The main section comprises annotated listings of 1302 short story anthologies: those with stories from all or most of the countries grouped together, including a section of English-language anthologies; those from countries of a region; and those from individual nations. For most entries a full listing of contents is provided along with brief commentary. A second section comprises annotated bibliographies of criticism of the short story, similarly arranged with materials for Latin America as a whole as well as regionally and nationally. The volume ends with four indexes: of authors of the stories; of authors of essays, introductions, and other critical materials; of titles of the critical works; and of themes. An essential tool for scholars working on Latin American narrative, this bibliography will also serve as a practical finding aid for individual writers and stories.

Book Strategic Occidentalism

Download or read book Strategic Occidentalism written by Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Occidentalism examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture. In the course of this analysis, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado engages with theories of world literature, proposing that “world literature” is a construction produced at various levels, including the national, that must be studied from its material conditions of production in specific sites. In particular, he argues that Mexican writers have engaged in a “strategic Occidentalism” in which their idiosyncratic connections with world literature have responded to dynamics different from those identified by world-systems or diffusionist theorists. Strategic Occidentalism identifies three scenes in which a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican world literature has been produced: Sergio Pitol’s translation of Eastern European and marginal British modernist literature; the emergence of the Crack group as a polemic against the legacies of magical realism; and the challenges of writers like Carmen Boullosa, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Ana García Bergua to the roles traditionally assigned to Latin American writers in world literature.

Book Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston

Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alpha

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book Alpha written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contemporary Ecuadorian Short Stories

Download or read book Contemporary Ecuadorian Short Stories written by Vladimiro Rivas Iturralde and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Argentine Novel

Download or read book The Argentine Novel written by Myron I. Lichtblau and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive resource that covers a period from 1788, the year Miguel Learte wrote Las aventuras de Learte, until 1990, when authors such as Osvaldo Soriano and Luisa Valenzuela published their popular novels. Also includes works which may be considered under the rubric of short novel which, in spite of their length, resemble the novel more than the short story in their basic literary conception, plot development, and narrative scope. Novels written by native Argentines and transplants are included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston

Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hispania

Download or read book Hispania written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Borges and Kafka

Download or read book Borges and Kafka written by Sarah Rachelle Roger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Roger investigates Jorge Luis Borges's development as an author in light of Franz Kafka's influence, and in consideration of Borges's relationship with his father, a failed author. She explores how reading Kafka helped Borges mediate and make productive use of his own relationship with his father.