New World, New Words

New World, New Words
Author: Thomas Christensen
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This fully bilingual (Spanish/English) anthology of Latin American literature showcases the region's enormous vitality and variety of writing. New World/New Words includes selections by widely celebrated writers such as Gabriel Garca Mrquez, Julio Cortzar, and Senel Paz, as well as work by emerging authors just beginning to make their mark in the English-speaking world. The collection features many of today's leading translators, several of whom are also distinguished poets and writiers. New World/New Words makes the literature of Latin America available to those who want to sample its scope and depth, and includes works published for the first time in English. With original introductions by the translators that focus on voice, tone, rhythm, context, and the role of the translator, New World / New Words offers a unique window on the translator's art while presenting an exciting cross-section of the latest Latin American writing. This book is the initial volume in a new series, Two Lines World Library, which will spotlight literature of different regions around the globe. These authors are still being discovered by readers outside their linguistic realm and in so many cases they are offereing something really new. . . . Let the reader turn his or her mind loose on these pieces--the best and the new that has come out of Latin America.--from the Foreword by Gregory Rabassa Thomas Christensen's translations include works by Alejo Carpentier, Louis-Ferdinand Cline, Julio Cortzar, Laura Esquivel, a nd Carlos Fuentes. Formerly the director of Mercury House and a seinor editor at North Point Press, he is now director of publications at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Featuring ClassicAuthors and New Voices Manlio Argueta Sigfredo Ariel Ran Ariza Edgar Brau Pura Lpez Colom Julio Cortzar Estela Davis Fernando del Paso Luisa Futoransky Francisco Hernndez David Huerta Guillermo Cabrera Infante Brbara Jacobs Mirko Lauer Mnica Lavn Gabriel Garca Mrquez Pablo Neruda Senel Paz Christina Peri Rossi Luisa Valenzuela Jorge Volpi

The Selected Poetry of Vicente Huidobro

The Selected Poetry of Vicente Huidobro
Author: Vicente Huidobro
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1981
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811208055

"He is the invisible oxygen of our poetry."--Octavio Paz

Cyborgs in Latin America

Cyborgs in Latin America
Author: J. Brown
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2010-08-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230109772

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org . Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity.

Modern Languages

Modern Languages
Author: Ernest Albert Craddock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1953
Genre: Languages, Modern
ISBN:

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems
Author: José E. Limón
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 1992-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520076338

"José Limón is one of our most interesting and important commentators on Chicano culture. . . . [This book] will help strengthen an important style of historically and politically accountable cultural analysis."—Michael M. J. Fischer, co-author of Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition

Castaways

Castaways
Author: Pablo Monforte
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2022-02-08
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1506727344

Madrid in the eighties, and Barcelona ten years later. In these two vibrant locales, Castaways follows the relationship between Alejandra and Julio against the backdrop of these poetic urban spaces where dreams, love, and uncertainty intertwine. Drawn to one another but constantly pushed or pulled in different directions by work, family, and life, Alejandra and Julio circle in and out of each other's lives, while first denying and then coming to accept the fact that by the time they are ready to love one another, the chance has already passed. Intensely emotive and poignant, this stunning graphic novel from Laura Pérez and Pablo Monforte depicts themes of maturity, responsibility, and human connection. Available in English for the first time with translation by Silvia Perea Labayen.

The Language of the In-Between

The Language of the In-Between
Author: Erika Almenara
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2022-11-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0822988992

Often, the process of modern state formation is founded on the marginalization of certain groups, and Latin America is no exception. In The Language of the In-Between, Erika Almenara contends that literary production replicates this same process. Looking at marginalized communities in Chile and Peru, particularly writers who are travesti, trans, cuir/queer, and Indigenous, the author shows how these writers stake a claim for the liminal space that is neither one thing nor the other. This allows a freedom to expose oppression and to critique a national identity based on erasure. By employing a language of nonnormative gender and sexuality to dispute the state projects of modernity and modernization, the voice of the poor and racialized travesti evolves from powerlessness to become an agent of social transformation.

Nomos, Kosmos & Dike in Plutarch

Nomos, Kosmos & Dike in Plutarch
Author: José Ribeiro Ferreira
Publisher: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Cosmology
ISBN: 9897210113

In September 2002, the University of Coimbra hosted, for the first time, a conference of the Réseau Thématique Plutarque, a research network created by several European universities in order to promote regular annual meetings of junior and senior scholars who share a common interest in Plutarch's work. The Coimbra meeting of 2002 was devoted to the fragments of Plutarch, and the results of that event were published one year later, in a volume edited by José Ribeiro Ferreira and Delfim Leão, under the title Os fragmentos de Plutarco e a recepção da sua obra (Coimbra, 2003). During the following years, many other universities organized conferences of the Réseau on a rotating basis, until the event came back to Coimbra, where the Portuguese section of the International Plutarch Society (SoPlutarco) hosted, from 16 to 18 June 2011, the twelfth meeting of the network, devoted this time to the subject "Nomos, kosmos and dike in Plutarch". The present volume comprises most of the contributions presented during the Coimbra meeting, after having been submitted to a process of revision, which involved the direct collaboration of the several regional sections of the Réseau. Although the volume kept the multilingual diversity of the participants in the conference, its structuring elements were composed in English, in order to reinforce the coherence of the book and to enlarge the number of potential readers.

MÁS ALLÁ DE LA VIDA

MÁS ALLÁ DE LA VIDA
Author: Maestro Rejko Jodorowsky
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2012-01-05
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1471042448

[...] Con el sentido de contribuir con nuestra "copa de agua" para aplacar a aquellos que tienen sed de conocimien¬tos de la Vida del Más Allá y aumentar el ánimo y la esperanza de aquellos que se atemorizan delante de la muerte del cuerpo y dudan de la magnanimidad de nuestro Padre Celestial. ¡Ojalá puedan estos mensajes mediúmnicos beneficiar a los corazones abatidos por la inseguridad del día de mañana! [...]