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The Censorship Files
Drawing on extensive research in the Spanish National Archive, Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola examines the role played by the censorship apparatus of Franco's Spain in bringing about the Latin American literary Boom of the 1960s and 1970s. He reveals the negotiations and behind-the-scenes maneuvering among those involved in the Spanish publishing industry. Converging interests made strange bedfellows of the often left-wing authors and the staid officials appointed to stand guard over Francoist morality and to defend the supposed purity of Castilian Spanish. Between these two uneasily allied groups circulated larger-than-life real-world characters like the Barcelona publisher Carlos Barral and th...
El país de Gonguri
Novela de aprendizaje, El país de Gonguri es también una defensa del arte como instrumento de transformación. La imaginación, el sueño, la anticipación, citando a Lenin, son necesarios al proceso revolucionario: "¿Cómo íbamos a iniciar la revolución socialista en un país sin soñadores?" Esta edición se acompaña también, de un pequeño texto de Alekséi Gástiev, El expreso, que complementa y ayuda comprender las perspectivas utópicas del período y las esperanzas de sus constructores.
Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution
Recipient of the Hubert Herring Memorial Award from the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies for the best unpublished manuscript of 1973, Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution is an in-depth study of works by Cubans, Cuban exiles, and other Latin American writers. Combining historical and critical approaches, Seymour Menton classifies and analyzes over two hundred novels and volumes of short stories, revealing the extent to which Cuban literature reflects the reality of the Revolution. Menton establishes four periods—1959–1960, 1961–1965,1966–1970, and 1971– 1973—that reflect the changing policies of the revolutionary government toward the arts. Using these periods as ...
Everything in Its Place
Everything in Its Place: The Life and Works of Virgilio Pinera: is a seminal book that fills a major gap in Cuban and Latin American literary criticism. In addition to being the most comprehensive study to date of the life and work of Virgilio Pinera, this is the first book in English on this major twentieth-century Cuban author. In this study Thomas F. Anderson draws extensively on unpublished manuscripts and diverse critical writings, bringing new insights into how Pinera's works responded to key literary influences as well as events in his life and in Cuban political and cultural history.
Guerrilla Prince
Syndicated journalist Georgie Anne Geyer calls on her nearly 40 years of experience covering Latin America to create an extraordinary biography that reveals the untold story of Fidel Castro, revolutionary and demagogue. Based on hundreds of interviews and unique sources -- including four extensive personal interviews with Castro -- Guerrilla Prince is an intimate and revealing portrait, charged with all the electricity of the charismatic leader.In this updated edition, Ms. Geyer presents new insights and addresses the changes since the 1991 release of Guerrilla Prince in hardcover -- the collapse of the Soviet Union, the internal unrest, and the growing anticipation of a post-Castro Cuba.
Latin American Dramatists since 1945
This resource compiles and locates biographical and bibliographical information of over 700 prominent Latin American dramatists of the late 20th century and their plays in 20 different countries, and it lists over 7,000 plays arranged by country and by author. Author biographies consist of year and place of birth, education, careers, other literary genres, and awards and prizes. The bibliographic listings include various editions of plays, followed by references to the plays in anthologies, collections, or periodicals. Latin American theater is rooted in the rich historical traditions of both the indigenous cultures of the region and those of Spain. In the second half of the 20th century, im...
El mundo venidero
La ciencia ficción soviética temprana resume, de algún modo, la vieja función de la literatura rusa en general, pero ya no con perspectiva presente, sino como prospectiva futura. Chejov, Tolstoi, Gogol, Goncharov, hacen de su literatura clases de historia y análisis social. Crean personajes que exponen problemas y representan tipos sociales de la realidad rusa. La ciencia ficción, por el contrario, no es un análisis Zde obstáculos aparentemente insuperables del presente, sino la construcción del deseo de aquello que debe ser y será. El mundo venidero, que aquí se acompaña con las dos "precuelas" con las que constituye una verdadera trilogía utópica, es ejemplo de esta función anticipatoria en una época de transformación social acelerada.
El año desnudo
El año desnudo (1920) documenta el estallido de la revolución de octubre durante la guerra civil. Es un collage fotográfico en movimiento, desde el ojo de la tormenta (su imagen preferida). El año de escritura es apenas un año posterior a las fotos y aún le quedan tres años a la guerra. Pero Pilniak no solo retrata: prefiere; no solo registra la historia: la construye; no solo especula sobre el futuro: apuesta al desarrollo de la potencia campesina arrebujada en el presente. Pilniak adhiere a la revolución. Escribe para que el torbellino deje en la superficie una identidad nueva, que construye como ancestral. ¿Cómo preferir la explosión en el momento del estallido? Con amor a la n...
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures
This vast three-volume Encyclopedia offers more than 4000 entries on all aspects of the dynamic and exciting contemporary cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean. Its coverage is unparalleled with more than 40 regions discussed and a time-span of 1920 to the present day. "Culture" is broadly defined to include food, sport, religion, television, transport, alongside architecture, dance, film, literature, music and sculpture. The international team of contributors include many who are based in Latin America and the Caribbean making this the most essential, authoritative and authentic Encyclopedia for anyone studying Latin American and Caribbean studies. Key features include: * over 4000 entries ranging from extensive overview entries which provide context for general issues to shorter, factual or biographical pieces * articles followed by bibliographic references which offer a starting point for further research * extensive cross-referencing and thematic and regional contents lists direct users to relevant articles and help map a route through the entries * a comprehensive index provides further guidance.
