CComputing

Climate and Literature

Author	: Janet Pérez
Publisher	: Texas Tech University Press
Release Date	: 1995
ISBN 10	: 0896723542
Pages	: 152 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (42 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Climate and Literature written by Janet Pérez and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rise of a succession of sophisticated approaches that largely disregard literature's traditional role as a mirror of life, climate and other environmental factors have been generally disregarded in the interpretation of literary texts during recent decades. For that reason, it is only fitting that the climatological dimension be re-explored after a forty-year hiatus."Climate and Literature embraces a significant revision of the original telluric "notions" about the determinist relationship between climate and the attitudes and behavior of literary characters set in particular surroundings. In place of such vague notions, we find within these pages interesting and stimulating examples of true applied science and contemporary literary theory that more often than not treat literary depiction of climate not so much as a reflection of influence of particular geographic environments, but as a powerful symbol for psychological or textural processes undergone by the novels' characters, narrators or readers."—Dr. Thomas Franz, Ohio State University.

The Shattered Mirror

Author	: María Elena de Valdés
Publisher	: University of Texas Press
Release Date	: 2010-07-05
ISBN 10	: 9780292786820
Pages	: 294 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (868 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book The Shattered Mirror written by María Elena de Valdés and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular images of women in Mexico—conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television—were long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized fallen woman. But new representations of women and their roles in Mexican society have shattered the ideological mirrors that reflected these images. This book explores this major change in the literary representation of women in Mexico. María Elena de Valdés enters into a selective and hard-hitting examination of literary representation in its social context and a contestatory engagement of both the literary text and its place in the social reality of Mexico. Some of the topics she considers are Carlos Fuentes and the subversion of the social codes for women; the poetic ties between Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Octavio Paz; questions of female identity in the writings of Rosario Castellanos, Luisa Josefina Hernández, María Luisa Puga, and Elena Poniatowska; the Chicana writing of Sandra Cisneros; and the postmodern celebration—without reprobation—of being a woman in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate.

Literature of Latin America

Author	: Rafael Ocasio
Publisher	: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN 10	: 0313320012
Pages	: 264 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (12 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Literature of Latin America written by Rafael Ocasio and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the literary and cultural heritage of Latin America from the colonial period through the twentieth century and examines texts from the early explorers, military and religious groups, political and native influences, and women writers.

Distant Relation

Author	: Eoin Scott Thomson
Publisher	: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN 10	: 0773510281
Pages	: 198 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (81 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Distant Relation written by Eoin Scott Thomson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Distant Relation Eoin Thomson presents innovative readings of canonical philosophic and literary texts, focusing on the distance that mediates the relation between word and thing, past and present, I and you. Through a novel convergence, itself arising from a field of philosophic and literary experimentation, he challenges previous traditions while demonstrating that his strategy is appropriate to the texts considered. The Distant Relation breaks down the artificial division between philosophy and literature by weaving contemporary philosophic arguments through close readings of Carpentier, Rulfo, Paz, and Garcia Marquez. Thomson draws the reader into the largely uninhabited space between philosophy and literature, providing new critical strategies that allow text and reader to respond to the very distance they share. These strategies involve a reconceptualisation of distance that recognises the productive and affirmative nature of separation. The Distant Relation will attract anyone interested in the ongoing struggle to overcome conventional interpretations of language, time, and identity within the broader context of philosophical trends and Spanish American studies. Eoin S. Thomson is an independent scholar who has taught in the Department of Philosophy at Trent University.

Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

Author	: Verity Smith
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2014-01-14
ISBN 10	: 9781135960339
Pages	: 702 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (63 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature written by Verity Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Structures of Power

Author	: Terry J. Peavler
Publisher	: SUNY Press
Release Date	: 1996-01-01
ISBN 10	: 0791428397
Pages	: 206 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (97 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Structures of Power written by Terry J. Peavler and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the many faces of power as revealed in twentieth-century Spanish-American fiction.

Magical Realism

Author	: Lois Parkinson Zamora
Publisher	: Duke University Press
Release Date	: 1995
ISBN 10	: 0822316404
Pages	: 598 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (4 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Magical Realism written by Lois Parkinson Zamora and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On magical realism in literature

The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel

Author	: Raymond Leslie Williams
Publisher	: University of Texas Press
Release Date	: 2009-07-21
ISBN 10	: 9780292774025
Pages	: 280 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (74 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel written by Raymond Leslie Williams 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.

A Companion to Latin American Literature

Author	: Stephen M. Hart
Publisher	: Tamesis Books
Release Date	: 2007
ISBN 10	: 9781855661479
Pages	: 354 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (614 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book A Companion to Latin American Literature written by Stephen M. Hart and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of Latin American literature.

A Luis Leal Reader

Author	: Luis Leal
Publisher	: Northwestern University Press
Release Date	: 2007-09-11
ISBN 10	: 9780810124189
Pages	: 480 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (241 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book A Luis Leal Reader written by Luis Leal and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his first publication in 1942, Luis Leal has likely done more than any other writer or scholar to foster a critical appreciation of Mexican, Chicano, and Latin American literature and culture. This volume, bringing together a representative selection of Leal’s writings from the past sixty years, is at once a wide-ranging introduction to the most influential scholar of Latino literature and a critical history of the field as it emerged and developed through the twentieth century. Instrumental in establishing Mexican literary studies in the United States, Leal’s writings on the topic are especially instructive, ranging from essays on the significance of symbolism, culture, and history in early Chicano literature to studies of the more recent use of magical realism and of individual New Mexican, Tejano, and Mexican authors such as Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, José Montoya, and Mariano Azuela. Clearly and cogently written, these writings bring to bear an encyclopedic knowledge, a deep understanding of history and politics, and an unparalleled command of the aesthetics of storytelling, from folklore to theory. This collection affords readers the opportunity to consider—or reconsider—Latino literature under the deft guidance of its greatest reader.

Paradise and Fall in Rulfo's Pedro Páramo

Author	: George Ronald Freeman
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1970
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015002209503
Pages	: 200 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (5 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Paradise and Fall in Rulfo's Pedro Páramo written by George Ronald Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cooptation, Complicity, and Representation

Author	: Shigeko Mato
Publisher	: Peter Lang
Release Date	: 2010
ISBN 10	: 1433109123
Pages	: 164 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (23 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Cooptation, Complicity, and Representation written by Shigeko Mato and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the affiliation between intellectuals and hegemony unbreakable? When intellectuals attempt to retell history from its bottom side, or when writers try to represent the so-called marginalized subject, are they not simply reinforcing the perspective and agenda of society's hegemonic currents? Cooptation, Complicity, and Representation engages in a discussion of the problem of this potentially unbreakable affiliation between intellectuals and hegemony. Through five twentieth-century Mexican literary works: Pedro Páramo (1955, Juan Rulfo); Hasta no verte Jesús mío (1969, Elena Poniatowska); three short stories from Ciudad Real (1960, Rosario Castellanos); Llanto: Novelas imposibles (1992, Carmen Boullosa); and Muertos incómodos (falta lo que falta) (2005, Subcomandate Marcos and Paco Ignacio Taibo II), this book attempts to examine the contradictory phenomenon that emerges when intellectuals' desire to represent a marginalized subject or history clashes with their own limited ability to fully know the marginalized. No critics have compiled these five seemingly unrelated Mexican texts in order to scrutinize such a contradictory tendency. Cooptation, Complicity, and Representation provides an innovative way to connect the five texts by delineating, within specific Mexican historical and geopolitical contexts, how and why intellectuals have difficulty moving away from the reproduction of «otherness», when they attempt to represent a marginalized subject or history. This book can be useful for those who are interested in the Spanish American boom literature, twentieth-century Mexican literature, women writing, testimonial writing, subaltern studies, postcolonial studies, historical novels, and cultural studies.

Ordinary Enchantments

Author	: Wendy B. Faris
Publisher	: Vanderbilt University Press
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN 10	: 0826514421
Pages	: 340 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (21 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Ordinary Enchantments written by Wendy B. Faris and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordinary Enchantments investigates magical realism as the most important trend in contemporary international fiction, defines its characteristics and narrative techniques, and proposes a new theory to explain its significance. In the most comprehensive critical treatment of this literary mode to date, Wendy B. Faris discusses a rich array of examples from magical realist novels around the world, including the work not only of Latin American writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but also of authors like Salman Rushdie, Gunter Grass, Toni Morrison, and Ben Okri. Faris argues that by combining realistic representation with fantastic elements so that the marvelous seems to grow organically out of the ordinary, magical realism destabilizes the dominant form of realism based on empirical definitions of reality, gives it visionary power, and thus constitutes what might be called a "remystification" of narrative in the West. Noting the radical narrative heterogeneity of magical realism, the author compares its cultural role to that of traditional shamanic performance, which joins the worlds of daily life and that of the spirits. Because of that capacity to bridge different worlds, magical realism has served as an effective decolonizing agent, providing the ground for marginal voices, submerged traditions, and emergent literatures to develop and create masterpieces. At the same time, this process is not limited to postcolonial situations but constitutes a global trend that replenishes realism from within. In addition to describing what many consider to be the progressive cultural work of magical realism, Faris also confronts the recent accusation that magical realism and its study as a global phenomenon can be seen as a form of commodification and an imposition of cultural homogeneity. And finally, drawing on the narrative innovations and cultural scenarios that magical realism enacts, she extends those principles toward issues of gender and the possibility of a female element within magical realism.

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico

Author	: Michael Werner
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2015-05-11
ISBN 10	: 9781135973773
Pages	: 800 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (737 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico written by Michael Werner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

World Literature

Author	:
Publisher	: Goodwill Trading Co., Inc.
Release Date	: 2010
ISBN 10	: 9715741606
Pages	: 392 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (6 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book World Literature written by and published by Goodwill Trading Co., Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Epic of Latin America

Author	: John A. Crow
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Release Date	: 1980
ISBN 10	: 0520037766
Pages	: 964 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (66 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book The Epic of Latin America written by John A. Crow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely comprehensive and comparative, praised for its devotion to social and cultural developments as well as politics and economics, this book has been revised and brought up to date, with chapters on the great upheavals of the 1980s.

Determinations

Author	: Neil Larsen
Publisher	: Verso
Release Date	: 2001-09-17
ISBN 10	: 1859843298
Pages	: 228 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (98 users)

GET EBOOK!

Download or read book Determinations written by Neil Larsen and published by Verso. This book was released on 2001-09-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determinations employs a Marxist approach to examine postcolonial theory and provides critical readings of a range of postcolonial narratives, mainly Latin American. It argues that the national question remains an unresolved problem in this field, particularly in light of the confusions engendered by concepts of globalization, and that the cultural link between the ideas of nation and narrative remains a fruitful avenue of study. Taking issue with the approaches of theorists such as Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak, Larsen takes the reader through the work of writers such as Cortazar, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Rulfo and Vargas Llosa. He concludes with a pungent reassessment of Benedict Anderson's classic work, Imagined Communities.