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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.
Literatura venezolana hoy
La estructura del volumen refleja los centros de interés de las conferencias presentadas. Los ensayos de la primera parte enfocan, desde diferentes perspectivas, las relaciones entre literatura y sociedad, sin que esta problemática esté ausente en los de las otras partes. En realidad la preocupación por la dimensión socio-política de la literatura fue un leitmotiv de las discusiones del simposio, lo que se refleja en este volumen. La segunda parte se centra en la indagación histórica, mientras que las demás partes adoptan el enfoque de género literario, con una parte intercalada que reúnen ensayos en los que algunos autores reflexionan sobre su obra y su escritura en el contexto de la literatura venezolana. El volumen se cierra con un ensayo sobre la recepción de la literatura venezolana en la Argentina para discutir, en un caso concreto, la repercusión de la literatura venezolana en América Latina.
Simon Bolivar
One of Latin America's most famous historical figures, Simón Bolívar has become a mythic symbol for many nations, empires, and revolutions, used to support wildly diverse--sometimes opposite--ideas. From colonial Cuba to Nazi-occupied France to Soviet Slovenia, the image of "El Libertador" has served a range of political and cultural purposes. Here, an array of international and interdisciplinary scholars shows how Bolívar has appeared over the last two centuries in paintings, fiction, poetry, music, film, festivals, dance traditions, city planning, and even reliquary adoration. Whether exalted, reimagined, or fragmented, Bolívar's body has taken on a range of different meanings to represent the politics and poetics of today's national bodies. Through critical approaches to diverse cultural Bolivarianisms, this collection demonstrates the capacity of the arts and humanities to challenge and reinvent hegemonic narratives and thus vital dimensions of democracy.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
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 between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and...
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 archaeological case studies that offer new perspectives on colonial period interactions in the Caribbean and surrounding areas through a specific focus on material culture and indigenous agency.
Twentieth-century Short Story Explication
Contains nearly 6000 entries that provide a bibliography of interpretations for short stories published between 1989 and 1990.
The Supernatural in Short Fiction of the Americas
The continuing cultural encounters of the Americas, between European and indigenous cultures, and between scientific materialism and premodern supernaturalism, have originated new narrative forms. While supernatural short fiction of the Americas belongs to the broad category of the fantastic, which is generally approached synchronically, reading audiences of the past 200 years have shifted their beliefs about the supernatural several times. While nineteenth-century readers understood science as real and the supernatural as imaginary, modern audiences recognize both as inaccurate, a shift which allows authors of supernatural fiction to celebrate premodern indigenous beliefs which were once di...
