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Grotesque Tales I
José Rafael Pocaterra was a Venezuelan journalist, activist and one of the country's most important writers of the early 20th century. Besides his memoirs, he wrote a series of short stories, which you'll find here in a bilingual Spanish - English edition. This book contains the full stories of: The Roman I (La I Latina), The Corpse-Eaters (Los Come-Muertos) and Anniversary (Anniversario). It also includes: * bilingual questions for comprehensive reading for each story and* answers to the questions, for use in a classroom environment, and * a word list with 56 words.
Grotesque Tales II
José Rafael Pocaterra was a Venezuelan journalist, activist and one of the country's most important writers of the early 20th century. Besides his memoirs, he wrote a series of short stories, which you'll find here in a bilingual Spanish - English edition.This book contains the full stories of: Loneliness (Soledad)Perez Ospino & Co.High hanging fruit (Las frutas muy altas)It also includes bilingual questions for comprehensive reading for each story, answers to the questions, for use in a classroom environment and a word list of 50 words.
Writing and the Revolution
Through a close reading of eight Venezuelan novels published between 2004 and 2012, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural policies of the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuela’s literary isolation.
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric.The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well.
Revolutionary Has No Clothes
During the forty or so years that preceded Hugo Chavez’s seizing of power, Venezuela had the most stable democracy in Latin America, the fastest-growing economy and the highest standard of living in the region. After Chavez seized power in 1999, however, things have changed radically. Today, Venezuela can no longer be seen as a democracy and rather than attracting immigrants as it once did, Venezuelans themselves are fleeing the country. Yet, somehow, the vast majority of contemporary references to Venezuela and to Chavez’s rule are laudatory. In The Revolutionary Has No Clothes: Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian Farce, A.C. Clark corrects this warped take on Hugo Chavez and the “Bolivarian R...
The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel
A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book 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...
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