Latin American Poetry from the Calligramme to the Virtual
This scholarly monograph offers a fresh look at modern experimental poetry in Spanish, Portuguese and French produced in Latin America. The work uses a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to examine how these experimental poetic forms can be best interpreted and understood through a performative lens. Examined structures and textures inherent ......
Reactions to Imperialism and Neoliberalism - Socialist Register 2008
Examines neoliberal order and the resistance movements which it has sparked across the globe. This work offers historical analysis of the role of politics, religion and imperialism in shaping the contemporary crisis in the Middle East and of the prospects for the Left throughout the Islamic world.
Psychological Recovery in the Novels of Latina Writers
For the past three decades, Latin American and Latina women writers have used autobiography, fiction, and a blend of the two genres to address the psychological struggle to heal from both personal and political traumas. Felicia Fahey focuses on six fictional autobiographies as literary representations of psychological recovery: Alina Diaconu's ......
The United States and Latin America from the Age of Revolutions to the Era of Globalization
Americans' belief in their economic, political, and cultural superiority launched them on a mission to transform Latin America that has evolved into a global process of Americanization. From corporate and philanthropic initiatives to military interventions, Americans motivated by self-interest and idealism sought to reshape Latin America and gave ......
African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America
This is the first book to deal primarily and specifically with relations between Africans and native peoples in colonial Latin America. Matthew Restall has collected nine essays that represent contributions to the larger fields of colonial Latin American history, African diaspora studies, and ethnohistory. Among the subjects addressed are marriage ......
Nation, Time, Language, and Space in Hispanic Literatures
The history of exile literature is as old as the history of writing itself. Despite this vast and varied literary tradition, criticism of exile writing has tended to analyze these works according to a binary logic, where exile either produces creative freedom or it traps the writer in restrictive nostalgia. The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time, ......
The genesis of Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America stems from the contributors' conviction that, given its vitality and excellence, Latin American literature deserves a more prominent place in comparative literature publications, curricula, and disciplinary discussions. The editors introduce the volume by first arguing that there still ......
The Human Condition, Values, and the Search for Identity
An anthology of Latin American philosophers in English. Besides the contemporary period, it includes key texts from the colonial and independent period to provide the reader with some historical background. It is divided into four sections - Colonial Beginnings and Independence, Philosophical Anthropology, Values, and The Search for Identity.
The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin America
This work describes the imposition of neoliberal economic models in Latin America, the role of the IMF and World Bank in enforcing them, and their consequences. It also shows how the economic meltdown in Latin America was prepared by an economic strategy.
