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Most known for his creative fictions that tackle literary questions of authorship as well as more philosophical notions such as multiverse theory, Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has captivated scholars from a variety of disciplines since his emergence on...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-02-16
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Central America is a region defined primarily by its geographical configuration as a canal-friendly isthmus, and its three-century history as the Spanish Kingdom of Guatemala. Having gained independence in 1821, the Kingdom broke up into the nations of Guatemala,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2022-06-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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From the epic saga of the Buendía family in One Hundred Years of Solitude to the enduring passion of Love in the Time of Cholera to the exploration of tyranny in The Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez has built a literary world that continues to captivate...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-10-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The internationally acclaimed last work by the legendary Latin American writer Master storyteller Eduardo Galeano was unique among his contemporaries (Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa among them) for his commitment to retelling our many histories, including...
Editeur : Bold Type Books
Parution : 2017-11-14
Format(s) : ePub
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An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-11-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Argentina's best-known writer during his lifetime, Leopoldo Lugones's work spans many literary styles and ideological positions. He was influential as a modernist poet, as a precursor of the avant-garde, and also as the poet of Argentine nature. His short stories (Las...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-03-19
Format(s) : ePub
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Argentina's best-known writer during his lifetime, Leopoldo Lugones's work spans many literary styles and ideological positions. He was influential as a modernist poet, as a precursor of the avant-garde, and also as the poet of Argentine nature. His short stories (Las...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-03-19
Format(s) : PDF
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Tomochic is a controversial and celebrated example of Mexican fiction.Tomochic is the fictional narration of the 1892 military campaign that resulted in the massacre of the small village of Tomochic, located in the Tarahumara mountains and ordered by the dictatorial...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2006-09-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story contains a selection of short stories by the best-known authors in Brazilian literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. With few exceptions, these stories have appeared in English translation, although...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2006-08-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2005-09-29
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was Argentina's leading writer, educator, and politician of the nineteenth century, and served as President from 1868 to 1874. Of his several autobiographies, the best-known Recollections of a Provincial Past is one of the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2005-03-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Peruvian author Ricardo Palma (1838-1919) was one of the most popular and imitated writers in Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As head of the National Library in Lima, Palma had access to a rich source of historical books and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2004-05-06
Format(s) : PDF
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Peruvian author Ricardo Palma (1838-1919) was one of the most popular and imitated writers in Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As head of the National Library in Lima, Palma had access to a rich source of historical books and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2004-05-06
Format(s) : ePub
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One of the most dramatic figures among Latin America's romantic writers and the distinguished woman writer of her century, Juana Manuela Gorriti brings passion and intrigue to the scene of writing. An exile from her native Argentina who sought refuge first in Bolivia...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2003-11-20
Format(s) : PDF
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One of the most dramatic figures among Latin America's romantic writers and the distinguished woman writer of her century, Juana Manuela Gorriti brings passion and intrigue to the scene of writing. An exile from her native Argentina who sought refuge first in Bolivia...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2003-11-20
Format(s) : ePub
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Here is one of the most important surviving works of pre-Columbian civilization, Rabinal Achi, a Mayan drama set a century before the arrival of the Spanish, produced by the translator of the best selling Popol Vuh.
The first direct translation into English from...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2003-09-04
Format(s) : PDF
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Here is one of the most important surviving works of pre-Columbian civilization, Rabinal Achi, a Mayan drama set a century before the arrival of the Spanish, produced by the translator of the best selling Popol Vuh.
The first direct translation into English from...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2003-09-04
Format(s) : ePub
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The Girondins of Chile tells of the strong influence that the European revolutions of 1848 had in Chile, and how they motivated a young Santiago society with high cultural aspirations but little political knowledge or direction. Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna, a Chilean...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2003-08-21
Format(s) : PDF
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The Girondins of Chile tells of the strong influence that the European revolutions of 1848 had in Chile, and how they motivated a young Santiago society with high cultural aspirations but little political knowledge or direction. Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna, a Chilean...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2003-08-21
Format(s) : ePub
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General Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2003-05-15
Format(s) : ePub
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