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Love and the Law in Cervantes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Love and the Law in Cervantes

The consolidation of law and the development of legal writing during Spain's Golden Age not only helped that country become a modern state but also affected its great literature. In this fascinating book, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria explores the works of Cervantes, showing how his representations of love were inspired by examples of human deviance and desire culled from legal discourse.

The Pride of Havana
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 513

The Pride of Havana

From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with the politics, music, dance, and literature of the Cuban people. What emerges is more than a story of balls and strikes, but a richly detailed history of Cuba told from the unique cultural perch of the baseball diamond. Filling a void created by Cuba's rejection of bullfighting and Spanish hegemony, baseball quickly became a crucial stitch in the complex social fabric of the island. By the early 1940s Cuba had become major conduit...

Machado de Assis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Machado de Assis

A lively and accessible introduction to Machado de Assis and his work

Cuban Fiestas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 515

Cuban Fiestas

A luminous history of Cuba’s most dynamic and defining rituals and the ever-improvisational character of Cuban culture In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto González Echevarría peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of a feast day pig. The author recalls “watching them at a distance, though thinking, fearing, that once I grew older I would have to participate in the whole event.” Now an acclaimed scholar of Latin American literature, González Echevarría returns to the rituals that defined his young life in Cuban Fiestas. Drawing from art, literature, film, and even the national sport of...

Modern Latin American Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

Modern Latin American Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-01-24
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  • Publisher: OUP USA

This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of Latin American literature from the late eighteenth century to the present. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria covers a wide range of topics, highlighting how Latin American literature became conscious of its continental scope and international reach in moments of political crisis, such as independence from Spain, the Spanish-American War, and the Mexican and Cuban revolutions. With this narrative, the author discusses major writers ranging from Andres Bello and Jose Maria Heredia through Borges and Garcia Marquez to Fernando Vallejo and Roberto Bolano.

Myth and Archive
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Myth and Archive

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Voice of the Masters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

The Voice of the Masters

By one of the most original and learned critical voices in Hispanic studies— a timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature. An ideology is implicit in modern Latin American literature, argues Roberto González Echevarría, through which both the literature itself and criticism of it define what Latin American literature is and how it ought to be read. In the works themselves this ideology is constantly subjected to a radical critique, and that critique renders the ideology productive and in a sense is what constitutes the work. In literary criticism, however, too frequently the ideology merely serves as support fo...

Latinx Actor Training
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Latinx Actor Training

Latinx Actor Training presents essays and pioneering research from leading Latinx practitioners and scholars in the United States to examine the history and future of Latino/a/x/e actor training practices and approaches. Born out of the urgent need to address the inequities in academia and the industry as Latinx representation on stage and screen remains disproportionately low despite population growth; this book seeks to reimagine and restructure the practice of actor training by inviting deep investigation into heritage and identity practices. Latinx Actor Training features contributions covering current and historical acting methodologies, principles, and training, explorations of linguis...

Alejo Carpentier
  • Language: en

Alejo Carpentier

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1983-10-27
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  • Publisher: Greenwood

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Annual Report - National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 466

Annual Report - National Endowment for the Humanities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes appendices.