Pepetela and the MPLA

Phillip Rothwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 36
• Angola's most acclaimed author, Pepetela (b. 1941), has been publishing fiction for over half a century. His work bears witness to the birth and monum... Lees meer

Gómez Manrique, Statesman and Poet

Gisèle Earle

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 31
• Gómez Manrique (c.1412-c.1490) had a long and active life, engaging in military activity as a typical medieval knight before becoming a diplomat and s... Lees meer

José Saramago

Mark Sabine

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 23
• Although best known internationally for his 'allegorical' novels such as Blindness (1995), in his native Portugal, José Saramago remains most acclaime... Lees meer

Reprojecting the City

Benedict Hoff

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 13
• Reprojecting the City takes a radical new look at the cinematic city through a queer perspective from the global south. Placing centre-stage the inter... Lees meer

St Teresa of Ávila

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 19
• At a time when women were effectively silenced in church, St Teresa of Ávila (1515-82) represents an extraordinary exception. Early struggles with her... Lees meer

The Modern Spanish Canon

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 28
• In recent years, interdisciplinary and comparative outlooks, greatly facilitated by the advent of new technologies, have transformed the discipline of... Lees meer

Novels of Carmen Laforet

Caragh Wells

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 29
• Carmen Laforet (Barcelona 1921 - Madrid 2004) was one of Spain's most significant writers of the post-civil war period. Her debut novel Nada (1945) wo... Lees meer

Photographing the Unseen Mexico

Dominika Gasiorowski

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 21
• Over the years, Mexico's photographic appeal has been created and sustained by many acclaimed photographers, both native and foreign to the country. T... Lees meer

Naturalism Against Nature

David J Bailey

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 48
• 'On one such occasion, he stopped in front of the mirror and looked at himself very carefully, trying to discover on his discoloured face anything, an... Lees meer

Photographing the Unseen Mexico

Dominika Gasiorowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 21
• Over the years, Mexico's photographic appeal has been created and sustained by many acclaimed photographers, both native and foreign to the country. T... Lees meer

Horizontalism and Historicity in Argentina

Brigid Lynch

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 46
• In the final months of 2001 the state of Argentina came close to collapse, as government, banking and social order all broke down. The Argentinazo - c... Lees meer

Women and Nationhood in Restoration Spain 1874-1931

Rocío Rødtjer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 34
• The narrative of civilization has always been told as a family story, from the patriarchal begetting of Genesis to the modern nationalist sagas of the... Lees meer

Form and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Spain

Carla Almanza-Gálvez

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 33
• During the 'long' eighteenth century, marked by Spain's experience of the Enlightenment, five major utopian texts devised ideal worlds as vehicles for... Lees meer

Francisca Wood and Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture

Cláudia Pazos Alonso

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 35
• This monograph offers the first full-length account of the political intervention of the nineteenth-century journalist, novelist and translator Franci... Lees meer

Santería, Vodou and Resistance in Caribbean Literature

Paul Humphrey

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 12
• African-derived religious traditions like Santería and Vodou have long been a site of political, cultural and social resistance in the Caribbean. Thro... Lees meer

Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century Spain

Anna Kathryn Kendrick

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 30
• During the early twentieth century, a neo-humanist education reform burgeoned in Spain. Building upon the new science of child study, known as paidolo... Lees meer

Queering Lorca's Duende

Miguel García

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 49
• Much literature and scholarship has been devoted to the works by Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), one of the greatest Spanish poets and playwrights ... Lees meer

No Country for Nonconforming Women

Maria Tavares

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 32
• Cape Verde, Mozambique and Angola are three young nation states characterized by a long colonial past, a successful liberation war, and a post-indepen... Lees meer

Gómez Manrique, Statesman and Poet

Gisèle Earle

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 31
• Gómez Manrique (c.1412-c.1490) had a long and active life, engaging in military activity as a typical medieval knight before becoming a diplomat and s... Lees meer

The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre

Jade Boyd

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 54
• Federico Garcia Lorca's (1898-1936) powerful and experimental colour-work is a critically undernourished aspect of his craft, particularly in terms of... Lees meer

From Doubt to Unbelief

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 42
• This volume delves into the question of how, in an Iberian world apparently far removed from the battlegrounds of modernity and secularisation, doubt ... Lees meer

Twentieth-Century Sephardic Authors from the Former Yugoslavia

Zeljko Jovanovic

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 41
• In the twentieth century, various Sephardic authors from the former Yugoslavia took upon themselves the task of revitalising different forms of Judeo-... Lees meer

Francisca Wood and Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture

Cláudia Pazos Alonso

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 35
• This monograph offers the first full-length account of the political intervention of the nineteenth-century journalist, novelist and translator Franci... Lees meer

Catalan Narrative 1875-2015

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures | nr. 16
• Since 1714 Catalan culture has had a troubled relationship with the Spanish state, which sometimes tolerated and sometimes repressed it. Nevertheless ... Lees meer