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Social Sciences
"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...
Haunting Without Ghosts
For half a century, cultural production in Colombia has labored under the weight of magical realism—above all, the works of Gabriel García Márquez—where ghosts told stories about the country’s violent past and warned against a similarly gruesome future. Decades later, the story of violence in Colombia is no less horrific, but the critical resources of magical realism are depleted. In their wake comes "spectral realism." Juliana Martínez argues that recent Colombian novelists, filmmakers, and artists—from Evelio Rosero and William Vega to Beatriz González and Erika Diettes—share a formal and thematic concern with the spectral but shift the focus from what the ghost is toward wha...
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
How the Dead Dream
A young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions finds his orderly, upwardly mobile life thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, who's been deserted by T.'s now out–of–the–closet father After his mother's suicide attempt and two other deaths, T. finds himself increasingly estranged from his latest project: a retirement community in the middle of the California desert. As he juggles family, business, and social responsibilities, T. begins to nurture a curious obsession with vanishing species. Soon he's living a double life, building sprawling subdivisions by day and breaking into zoos at night to be near the animals. A series of calamities forces T. to a tropical island, where he takes a Conrad–esque journey up a river into the remote jungle. Millet's devastating wit, psychological acuity, and remarkable empathy for flawed humankind contend with her vision of a world slowly murdering itself.
Gloria Cuartas
Incluye datos biográficos y retrato de la autora en solapa.
My Men
A cross between kiss-and-tell and curse-and-tell, Malika Mokeddem’s memoir of the men in her life presents a mosaic of relationships defining what it is to be a woman, an immigrant, a doctor, and a citizen of an uncertain world. From her childhood days in French colonial Algeria to her later years as a doctor in Paris and a writer in Montpellier, Mokeddem traces the path of a brilliant girl in a world of men. Anorexia, insomnia, financial independence, escapism in books, atheism, self-imposed exile, painting, and the poetics of free love—such are the various ways in which she has responded to discrimination. Mokeddem hauntingly describes how her literary and medical careers blossomed along with her sexuality and her desire to escape the gender bias that shackled Algerian tradition. At once a scathing critique of Algerian patriarchy and a soaring tribute to the men who opened a window on the world, Mokeddem’s story is a fascinating portrait of gender as it is actually felt, lived, and never left behind.
Poética de la tierra caliente
La introducción del modo de producción moderno supuso que la cuenca media del río Magdalena transitó de un mundo mítico que se expresaba en el canto y la poesía a un mundo histórico que era expresado por la historia y la novela. La poética de la tierra caliente será al mismo tiempo producto y forma de conciencia de un mundo orquestado por unas faenas sociales concretas, de las atadas a la ribera y a la selva, de las emplazadas en medio de los cultivos, de las adentradas en las profundidades de las minas, de las que surgieron con las aldeas primordiales. El ascenso y la caída de estas faenas sociales, su expansión así como su declive, fueron capturados por esta poética de la tier...
Orígenes sociales de los derechos humanos
El activismo de derechos humanos suele asociarse con el trabajo de organizaciones internacionales que buscan incidir en la manera en que los estados abusivos actúan en diferentes partes del mundo. En Barrancabermeja, Colombia, según sostiene Luis van Isschot en Orígenes sociales de los derechos humanos, la lucha por los derechos se ha dado de forma más orgánica y ha estado circunscrita a un ámbito local, como resultado de una larga historia de activismo civil y social. El autor analiza en profundidad las vidas de activistas locales en una zona de conflicto y enmarca sus experiencias en importantes cambios sociales que han moldeado a América Latina a lo largo del siglo XX. Creada por l...
Decir desaparecido(s) II
Decir desaparecido(s) II Análisis transculturales de la desaparición forzada indaga en los diversos géneros literarios que representan la desaparición forzada de personas. El libro analiza, a partir de un estudio introductorio y de 18 capítulos, la traslación del concepto desaparecidos desde Argentina a otros territorios afectados por la violencia. Lo hace profundizando en cinco nudos de conflicto que tienen como arterias principales las formas de la desaparición (muerte, apropiación de niños, exilio) y de la aparición (recuperación de restos, fantasmas, propuesta artísticas); los agentes (perpetradores, delatores) y los territorios. A diferencia del volumen anterior, que abordaba la comparación entre España y Argentina, en este se extiende la investigación a la respuesta literaria de países como Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, El Salvador o México.
