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This fourth volume in the Caribbean Heritage series presents the texts of two short plays, first written in Trinidad in 1832 and 1852–53. The author of Martial Law in Trinidad was E.L. Joseph, an English-born long-time resident of Trinidad, who later published a novel, Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole, and the first history of the island. The author of Past and Present is not known, but may have been G.N. Dessources, a mixed-race Trinidadian...
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These, Voices Beating in our Heart is an old dream come true for the editor, Miguel Angel Olive Inglesias, the CCLA President Cuba and Editor-in-Chief of The Ambassador. He had wanted to put together a collection of poems by these eleven poets from Holguín Province, Cuba for a long time. This collection shows to the world the eleven authors harmonized voices rising from their hearts. While each poet is different in style and elegance, in the way...
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The first anthology of poetry, prose, and drama by second-generation Cuban American writers.
Let's Hear Their Voices brings together works by ten distinguished and emerging Cuban American writers of the "second generation"-writers who were born between 1960 and the mid-1980s in the United States to Cuban parents or have a mixed ethnic background. Called "ABCs" (American-Born Cubans) or "AmeriCubans," these writers experiment with different formal...
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Incisive exploration of the work of Cuban-American artist Alberto Rey.
Life Streams explores the paintings, videos, sculptures, and installations of Alberto Rey, an artist whose work addresses issues of identity, cultural diversity, environmental studies, and global sustainability. As a Cuban-born artist living in western New York State, Rey's current work emphasizes his involvement with his community and its local landscape, especially its trout...
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With this new Latino literary collection Erika M. Martínez has brought together twenty-four engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living in the United States. The first volume of its kind, Daring to Write's insightful works offer readers a wide array of content that touches on a range of topics: migration, history, religion, race, class, gender, and sexuality. The result is a moving and imaginative critique...
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En Costumbristas cubanos del siglo XIX se agrupan textos de una veintena de autores cubanos representantes del costumbrismo, movimiento literario desarrollado en AméricaLatina en el siglo XIX.
Los costumbristas cubanos escribieron bajo la influencia de Mariano José de Larra y Ramón de Mesonero Romanos. Sus obras estuvieron entre las primeras expresiones nacionales de la isla. Aunque el costumbrismo tuvo signos variados y opuestos: progresista o...
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A partir de un aparato teorico polifacetico y propuestas esteticas diversas, Escritura(s) en femenino en las literaturas centroamericanas. Una cuestion de genero? reflexiona sobre las interrelaciones, intersecciones y diferencias entre la escritura femenina, la escritura de mujer(es) y las escrituras en femenino, en la Centroamerica contemporanea y sus diasporas. Asumiendo el caracter performatico tanto de las categorias de sexo y genero (gender)...
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The book is a collection of new and unpublished ghost stories written by some of the most celebrated contemporary writers of the Caribbean. It's the first collection of its kind, and drawing on the anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone islands, the volume will be a landmark publication in Caribbean writing.
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Este volumen, compuesto por ocho ensayos y una suerte de epilogo dialogado con la escritora Maria Rosa Lojo, discute algunos de los ejes vertebradores de su obra: la conflictiva relacion con lo sagrado y su constante interpelacion, la memoria de la inmigracion, la presencia de figuras femeninas cuestionadoras del discurso masculino hegemonico o de otros personajes marginales que resignifican la historia oficial, los siempre cuestionados y cuestionables...
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Esta entrega de Los Bárbaros fue pensada cuando Nueva York era aún una ciudad abierta y nos mirábamos de cerca y nos besábamos y abrazábamos sin temor a la muerte. Hoy nuestra historia parece presentarnos el panorama que imaginaba García Márquez cuando escribía El amor en los tiempos del cólera.
Los Bárbaros 16/17 presenta a un nuevo grupo de narradores, cronistas y poetas que hablan de la pasión ─y de la lujuria─ en una ciudad cuyo...
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The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
As a Francophone nation, Haiti is seldom studied in conjunction with its Spanish-speaking Caribbean neighbors. Racialized Visions challenges the notion that linguistic difference has kept the populations of these countries apart, instead highlighting ongoing exchanges between their writers,...
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Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of cultural production, in the form of literature, poetry, art, music, and eventually film, would often simultaneously contravene or cooperate with the newly established order of Latin American nations negotiating independence and a new political and cultural...
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An interdisciplinary consideration of Paul Gilroy's contributions to cultural theory and understandings of modernity.
In the more than twenty years since the publication of his book The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy has become a leading Afro-European intellectual whose work in the cultural studies of race has influenced a number of fields and made the study of black Atlantic literatures and cultures an enduring part of the humanities. The essays in...
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An English translation, with introduction and annotations, of a selection of the letters and verse that José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), wrote during his months of political exile in New York from November 1823 to August 1825.
This volume offers the most complete English translation to date of the prose and poetry of José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), focusing on Heredia's political exile in the United States...
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Examines the work of prolific Dominican American writer Julia Alvarez.
This is the first collection of critical essays on the works of Dominican American author Julia Alvarez. A prolific writer of nearly two dozen books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature, Alvarez has garnered numerous international accolades, including the impressive F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. She was one of...
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Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America offers a new contribution to the literature on institutions and growth through the analysis of historical cases of institutional change and economic growth in Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
18) Las escuelas de artes y oficios en Colombia (1860-1960), Volumen 1: El poder regenerador de la cruz
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Las escuelas de arte y oficios en Colombia reflexiona en torno a un tema que esperó por muchos años para ser documentado convenientemente. Un siglo es el itinerario temporal escogido por los investigadores, quienes emprendieron la tarea de recolectar, analizar y proponer evidencias de un fenómeno múltiple y complejo. Además, siguen con dedicación el impacto de la creación de las escuelas dedicadas a enseñar artes y oficios para mostrar un...
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Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá is a fresh collection of diverse voices from the Dominican community that offers a balance of contemporary writers of multiple generations of the Dominican diaspora. The world of Dominican literature we grew up in taught us how stories become a fierce tool that serve to amplify the realities of some, while muting and many times erasing the experiences of many. This anthology includes stories that are a product of those generations....
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As the Caribbean
Community (CARICOM) approaches its fiftieth anniversary in 2023,
the contributors to Caribbean Integration: Uncertainty
in Time of Global Fragmentation critically reflect on the evolution
of regional movement, analysing the challenges of maintaining relevance in a
post-Brexit era of regional integration, while also highlighting opportunities
for its reinvigoration.
This collection offers diverse perspectives from scholars within...
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