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Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
Nacimiento - Descubrimiento y conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada - Calidad de los conquistadores - Tormento y muerte de Sagipa - Fundación de Santa Fe de Bogotá - De vuelta en España - El reino de las dificultades - El espejismo de El Dorado - Escritor.
Bogotá 360°
Using a camera specially designed for Villegas Editores that rotates on its axis and takes 360-degree, panoramic pictures, this magnificent collection offers a unparalleled look at 46 of the most recognized buildings and structures in Bogota. Incredible views of the Maloka, Palacio Cardenalicio, and the Universidad Javeriana are among the vistas featured.
Mancha de la tierra
Una apasionante novela histórica ubicada durante la revolución de los comuneros y la vida de los próceres colombianos. Mancha de la tierra se sumerge en uno de los episodios más apasionantes y, en el fondo, desconocidos de la historia de Colombia: la insurrección de los Comuneros. Primera parte de las memorias de Antonio Nariño, testigo y actor de los acontecimientos, y atravesada por personajes como José Antonio Galán, Pedro Fermín de Vargas, José Celestino Mutis, el marqués de San Jorge, entre otros, esta monumental novela permite entender el alzamiento de 1781 no como un hecho aislado, sino como un síntoma del espíritu dela época y como un verdadero primer paso hacia la inde...
After-Dinner Conversation
Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, José Asunción Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de siècle novels and the first one to be translated into English. Perhaps the single best work for understanding turn-of-the-twentieth-century writing in South America, After-Dinner Conversation is also cited as the continent's first psychological novel and an outstanding example of modernista fiction and the Decadent sensibility. Semi-autobiographical and more important for style than plot, After-Dinner Conversation is the diary of a Decadent sensation-collector in exile in Paris who u...
Ambivalent Desires
Ambivalent Desires: Representations of Modernity and Private Life in Colombia (1890s-1950s) is a literary and cultural study of the reception of modernity in Colombia. Unlike previous studies of Latin American modernization, which have usually focused on the public aspect of the process, this book discusses the intersection between modernity and the private sphere. It analyzes canonical and non-canonical works that reflect the existing ambivalence toward the modernizing project being implemented in the country at the time, and it discusses how the texts in question reinterpret, adapt, and even reject the ideology of modernity. The focus of the study is how the understanding of the relationsh...
Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: Narrating Creole Subjectivity casts new light on the role of exemplary narrative in nineteenth-century Spanish America, highlighting the multiplicity of didactic writing and its dynamic relationship with readers as interpretive agents. Drawing on literary and historical models of creole heterogeneity, Austin’s study probes the unstable social and ethnic fictions of the creole elite as they portray themselves through the flawed canvas of exemplary discourse. Exemplary Ambivalence examines creole subjectivity through postcolonial and Latin American theoretical lenses to show that Spanish American creole subjects, always multip...
The Secret History of Costaguana
'Splendid' Telegraph 'Vivid, forceful, masterly' Guardian 'One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature' Mario Vargas Llosa London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and the great writer needs help from a native of the Caribbean coast of South America. José Altamirano, Colombian at birth, who has just arrived in London, answers the great writer's advertisement and tells him his life story. José has been witness to the most horrible things that a person or a country could suffer, and drags with him not just a guilty conscience but a story that has almost destroyed hi...
A World Not to Come
In 1808 Napoleon invaded Spain and deposed the king. Overnight, Hispanics were forced to confront modernity and look beyond monarchy and religion for new sources of authority. Coronado focuses on how Texas Mexicans used writing to remake the social fabric in the midst of war and how a Latino literary and intellectual life was born in the New World.
Humanities
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
