![Plant Theory in Amazonian Literature]( "Plant Theory in Amazonian Literature")
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Duchesne Winter, J. R. (2019)
This book discusses new developments of plant studies and plant theory in the humanities and compares them to the exceptionally robust knowledge about plant life in indigenous …
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![Decolonial Puerto Rican Women's Writings]( "Decolonial Puerto Rican Women's Writings")
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Hurtado, R. (2019)
This book explores representations of sentient-flesh — flesh that holds consciousness of being — in Puerto Rican women’s literature. It considers how different literary devices …
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![Latinx Literature Now]( "Latinx Literature Now")
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Ortiz, R. L. (2019)
Latinx Literature Now engages with a diverse collection of works in Latinx literary studies, critical theory, and the philosophy of history, as well as a wide range of Latinx …
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![Borges, Buddhism and World Literature]( "Borges, Buddhism and World Literature")
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Jullien, D. (2019)
This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global …
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![Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside]( "Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside")
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Johnson, J. (2019)
How do Caribbean writers see the British countryside? Do they feel included, ignored, marginalised? In Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside, …
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![Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature]( "Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature")
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González, J. E. (Ed), Robbins, T. R. (Ed) (2019)
This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction. The contributors to this volume seek to understand the …
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![Writing Puerto Rico]( "Writing Puerto Rico")
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Rebollo Gil, G. (2018)
This book is a manifesto-like consideration of the potentialities of radical political thought and action in contemporary Puerto Rico. Framed within the context of the present …
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![Essays on Hilda Hilst]( "Essays on Hilda Hilst")
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Morris, A. (Ed), Carvalho, B. (Ed) (2018)
This book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English. It brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America’s most …
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![Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States]( "Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States")
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Heredia, J. (2018)
This collection of interviews demonstrates that U.S. Latinas/os of South American background have contributed pioneering work to U.S. Latina/o literature and culture in the …
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![Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture]( "Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture")
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Sánchez Prado, I. M. (Ed) (2018)
Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture is a collective reflection on the value of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s work for the study of Spanish and Latin American …
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![Anglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture]( "Anglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture")
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Klein, A. (2018)
This book is the first comprehensive study of Anglophone literature depicting the British Imperial system of indentured labor in the Caribbean. Through an examination of intimate …
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![Female Corpses in Crime Fiction]( "Female Corpses in Crime Fiction")
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Close, G. S. (2018)
This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational …
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![Quince Duncan's Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors]( "Quince Duncan's Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors")
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Mosby, D. E. (2018)
Quince Duncan is one of the most significant yet understudied Black writers in the Americas. A third-generation Afro-Costa Rican of West Indian heritage, he is the first novelist …
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![Postmodern Parody in Latin American Literature]( "Postmodern Parody in Latin American Literature")
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Weldt-Basson, H. C. (Ed) (2018)
This book examines postmodern parody in Latin American literature as the intersection between ideology construction and deconstruction. Parody’s chief task is to deconstruct and …
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![Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature]( "Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature")
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Ledent, B. (Ed), O'Callaghan, E. (Ed), Tunca, D. (Ed) (2018)
This collection takes as its starting point the ubiquitous representation of various forms of mental illness, breakdown and psychopathology in Caribbean writing, and the fact that …
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![Contemporary U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish]( "Contemporary U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish")
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Das, A. (Ed), Quinn-Sánchez, K. (Ed), Shaul, M. (Ed) (2018)
U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish remains an understudied field despite its large and vibrant corpus. This is partly due to the erroneous impression that this literature is only …
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![Women in Contemporary Latin American Novels]( "Women in Contemporary Latin American Novels")
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Botero, B. L. (Ed) (2018)
This book explores the relationship between psychoanalysis, literary criticism and contemporary literature. Focusing on Latin America, and using examples from Brazilian, …
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![Guantánamo and American Empire]( "Guantánamo and American Empire")
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Walicek, D. E. (Ed), Adams, J. (Ed) (2017)
This book explores the humanities as an insightful platform for understanding and responding to the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, other manifestations of “Guantánamo,” and …
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![Gender and Place in Chicana/o Literature]( "Gender and Place in Chicana/o Literature")
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Vizcaíno-Alemán, M. V. (2017)
This book is a study of gender and place in twentieth-century Chicana/o literature and culture, covering the early period of regional writing to contemporary art. Remapping …
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![The Mexican Crack Writers]( "The Mexican Crack Writers")
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Jaimes, H. (Ed) (2017)
This book provides a rich and cutting-edge analysis of one of the most prominent literary groups in Latin America: the Mexican Crack Writers. The first part explores the history …
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