In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. Motivated by President McKinley's project of "benevolent assimilation," they established a school system that center…
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"Focusing on the states of the Deep South in relation with Mexico and island nations such as Haiti and Cuba, Lowe reconfigures the geography of Southern literature as encompassing the "circumCaribbean," a fluid and dynamic framework within which to consider literary history, gen…
This collection seeks to place Pudd'nhead Wilson-a neglected, textually fragmented work of Mark Twain's-in the context of contemporary critical approaches to literary studies. The editors' introduction argues the virtues of using Pudd'nhead Wilson as a teaching text, a case stud…
Bilingual Brokers examines bilingual personhood in Asian American and Latino literature through postwar debates on bilingualism to illustrate a regime of flexible inclusion where an economic calculus of value for racialized subjects crystallizes at the intersections of language …
Rebeldes y aventureros: Del Viejo al Nuevo Mundo
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La obra se centra en el proceso de descubrimiento, conquista y colonización del Nuevo Mundo, tomando como base cartas, crónicas, autobiografías, relatos de exploradores y viajeros europeos y la literatura que recrea este período.
Rebeldes y aventureros: Del Viejo al Nuevo Mundo
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Type: Book
La obra se centra en el proceso de descubrimiento, conquista y colonización del Nuevo Mundo, tomando como base cartas, crónicas, autobiografías, relatos de exploradores y viajeros europeos y la literatura que recrea este período.
"This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and…
"The Literature of Reconstruction argues for the term and concept of 'postmillennial reconstruction' to fill the gap left by the decline of postmodernism and deconstruction as useful cultural and literary categories. Wolfgang Funk shows how this notion emerges from the theoretic…
"Shows through an analysis of the form and content of significant contemporary British and American novels that the notion of reconstruction figures as a major aesthetic factor in recent works of narrative fiction" "The Literature of Reconstruction argues for the term and conce…
"The Literature of Reconstruction argues for the term and concept of 'postmillennial reconstruction' to fill the gap left by the decline of postmodernism and deconstruction as useful cultural and literary categories. Wolfgang Funk shows how this notion emerges from the theoretic…
Reúne diez estudios sobre el fenómeno de la cortesía tal como se presenta en los diferentes contextos regionales hispánicos, abarcando formas tanto históricas como actuales en un acercamiento dinámico y diacrónico.
Reúne diez estudios sobre el fenómeno de la cortesía tal como se presenta en los diferentes contextos regionales hispánicos, abarcando formas tanto históricas como actuales en un acercamiento dinámico y diacrónico.
"Considers how the novels of five contemporary writers from the American tropics--Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alvaro Mutis, and Milton Hatoum--engage with the legend of El Dorado in light of modern practices for extracting mineral deposits and other natu…
This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry 'at work' in poems.
Black writers matter
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"An anthology of African-Canadian writing, Black Writing Matters offers a cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle contemporary and pressing issues with beautiful, sometimes raw, prose. As Whitney French says in her introduction, Black …
"In recent years, literary critics have engaged in a variety of new approaches to Sylvia Plath's work. Readers themselves are increasingly aware of the complex array of backgrounds and frameworks which shape Plath's writing. Bringing together an exciting combination of establish…
