Neobaroque in the Americas

Monika Kaup

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twentieth... Lees meer

Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows

A James Arnold

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• The 1992 Quincentennial of the encounter between the New World and the Old resulted in a veritable culture war- an extreme polarization of hardened id... Lees meer

American Imperialism's Undead

Raphael Dalleo

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• As modern Caribbean politics and literature emerged in the first half of the twentieth century, Haiti, as the region's first independent state, stood ... Lees meer

Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature

Jeannine Murray-Román

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Focusing on the literary representation of performance practices in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean literature, Jeannine Murray-Ro... Lees meer

Quebec Connection

Julie-Françoise Tolliver

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• From the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of independence inspired radical changes across the French-speaking world. In The Quebec Connection , Julie-Fran... Lees meer

Crossing the Line

Candace Ward

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Crossing the Line examines a group of early nineteenth-century novels by white creoles, writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their... Lees meer

Fellow Travelers

John Ochoa

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Road trips loom large in the American imagination, and stories from the road have been central to crafting national identities across North and South ... Lees meer

Difficult Reading

Jason R Marley

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Difficult Reading offers a new approach to formal experimentation in Caribbean literature. In this insightful study, Jason Marley demonstrates how the... Lees meer

Neobaroque in the Americas

Monika Kaup

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twentieth... Lees meer

The Sacred Act of Reading

Anne Margaret Castro

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritu... Lees meer

Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity

Maria Cristina Fumagalli

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• Taking up the challenge of redefining modernity from a Caribbean perspective instead of assuming that the North Atlantic view of modernity is universa... Lees meer

Exhibiting Slavery

Vivian Nun Halloran

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Exhibiting Slavery examines the ways in which Caribbean postmodern historical novels about slavery written in Spanish, English, and French function as... Lees meer

Idle Talk, Deadly Talk

Ana Rodríguez Navasx

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Chaucer called it "spiritual manslaughter"; Barthes and Benjamin deemed it dangerous linguistic nihilism. But gossip-long derided and dismissed by wri... Lees meer

Fictions of Whiteness

Maeve McCusker

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• The Antilles remain a society preoccupied with gradations of skin color and with the social hierarchies that largely reflect, or are determined by, ra... Lees meer

Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Focusing on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection of essays sug... Lees meer

Break and Flow

Charlie D Hankin

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• Hip hop is a global form of creative expression. In Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, rappers refuse the boundaries of hip hop's US genesis, claiming the art f... Lees meer

Border Fictions

Claudia Sadowski-Smith

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Border Fictions offers the first comparative analysis of multiethnic and transnational cultural representations about the United States' borders with ... Lees meer

Cuba and the Fall

Eduardo González

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• The literature of Cuba, argues Eduardo González in this new book, takes on quite different features depending on whether one is looking at it from "th... Lees meer

Reclaiming Difference

Carine M Mardorossian

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• In Reclaiming Difference, Carine Mardorossian examines the novels of four women writers--Jean Rhys (Dominica/UK), Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe/USA), Edwid... Lees meer

Exhibiting Slavery

Vivian Nun Halloran

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• Exhibiting Slavery examines the ways in which Caribbean postmodern historical novels about slavery written in Spanish, English, and French function as... Lees meer

Pathologies of Paradise

Supriya M Nair

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Pathologies of Paradise presents the rich complexity of anglophone Caribbean literature from pluralistic perspectives that contest the reduction of th... Lees meer

Price of Slavery

Nick Nesbitt

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• The Price of Slavery analyzes Marx's critique of capitalist slavery and its implications for the Caribbean thought of Toussaint Louverture, Henry Chri... Lees meer

The Pan American Imagination

Stephen M Park

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• In the history of the early twentieth-century Americas, visions of hemispheric unity flourished, and the notion of a transnational American identity w... Lees meer

Vulnerable States

Guillermina de Ferrari

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• According to Martinican theorist Edouard Glissant, the twentieth century has been dominated in the Caribbean by a passion for the remembrance of colon... Lees meer