Ximena at the Crossroads

Ximena at the Crossroads
Author: Laura Riesco
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A girl's world of fantasy, the product of books she reads, is shattered by the reality of a strike in an American-owned factory where her father works. By a Peruvian writer.

A Secret Weavers Anthology

A Secret Weavers Anthology
Author: Andrea O'Reilly Herrera
Publisher: White Pine Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781877727825

This book not only celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Secret Weavers series, but also provides teachers of multiethnic literature with a diverse range of Latin American women's voices addressing a wide variety of topics. The book includes work from the earliest writers to those who have recently established themselves as major voices in Latin American letters.

Humanities

Humanities
Author: Lawrence Boudon
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 950
Release: 2005-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780292706088

"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 2000, and Katherine D. McCann has been assistant editor since 1999. The subject categories for Volume 60 are as follows: Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Music Philosophy: Latin American Thought

Mining Memory

Mining Memory
Author: Mary Beth Tierney-Tello
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2017-01-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611487749

Every major Peruvian author of the twentieth century has written a narrative focused on childhood or coming of age. Mining Memory argues that Peruvian narratives of the twentieth century re-imagine childhood not only to document personal pasts, but also to focus on national identity as a dynamic and incomplete process. Mining Memory shows how 20th-century narratives and films reimagine the self and the nation by representing child and adolescent protagonists and their evolution, using the remembrance of childhood as part of a nation-making project. The book demonstrates how, in the context of Peru, fictions focusing on childhood become vehicles for the national reimagining and collective remembering central to much of Latin American literature. The figure of the child, as emblem of both a collective memory and an always deferred utopian project, holds special promise for twentieth-century Peruvian writers as they write from a national context rife with cultural, racial and political conflict. The book intervenes in debates internal to Peruvian cultural studies as well as wider conversations in Latin American Studies and post-colonial studies. Mining Memory provides a new understanding to both the Latin American and Anglo-American traditions regarding the representations of national subjectivities through the voices of the child and adolescent. Such a representational strategy performs a very particular kind of hybridity and temporal balancing act capable of addressing the very issues of cultural memory and fractured identities so relevant to multi-cultural, post-colonial cultural contexts.

Latin American Women Writers

Latin American Women Writers
Author: Kathy S. Leonard
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2007-09-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810866609

There is a wealth of published literature in English by Latin American women writers, but such material can be difficult to locate due to the lack of available bibliographic resources. In addition, the various types of published narrative (short stories, novels, novellas, autobiographies, and biographies) by Latin American women writers has increased significantly in the last ten to fifteen years. To address the lack of bibliographic resources, Kathy Leonard has compiled Latin American Women Writers: A Resource Guide to Titles in English. This reference includes all forms of narrative-short story, autobiography, novel, novel excerpt, and others-by Latin American women dating from 1898 to 2007. More than 3,000 individual titles are included by more than 500 authors. This includes nearly 200 anthologies, more than 100 autobiographies/biographies or other narrative, and almost 250 novels written by more than 100 authors from 16 different countries. For the purposes of this bibliography, authors who were born in Latin America and either continue to live there or have immigrated to the United States are included. Also, titles of pieces are listed as originally written, in either Spanish or Portuguese. If the book was originally written in English, a phrase to that effect is included, to better reflect the linguistic diversity of narrative currently being published. This volume contains seven indexes: Authors by Country of Origin, Authors/Titles of Work, Titles of Work/Authors, Autobiographies/Biographies and Other Narrative, Anthologies, Novels and Novellas in Alphabetical Order by Author, and Novels and Novellas by Authors' Country of Origin. Reflecting the increase in literary production and the facilitation of materials, this volume contains a comprehensive listing of narrative pieces in English by Latin American women writers not found in any other single volume currently on the market. This work of reference will be of special interest to scholars, students, and instructors interested in narrative works in English by Latin American women authors. It will also help expose new generations of readers to the highly creative and diverse literature being produced by these writers.

Bolivia at the Crossroads

Bolivia at the Crossroads
Author: Soledad Valdivia Rivera
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2021-02-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000385612

As Bolivia reels from the collapse of the government in November 2019, a wave of social protests, and now the impact of Covid-19, this book asks: where next for Bolivia? After almost 14 years in power, the government of Bolivia’s first indigenous president collapsed in 2019 amidst widescale protest and allegations of electoral fraud. The contested transitional government that emerged was quickly struck by the impacts of the Covid-19 public health crisis. This book reflects on this critical moment in Bolivia’s development from the perspectives of politics, the economy, the judiciary and the environment. It asks what key issues emerged during Evo Morales’s administration and what are the main challenges awaiting the next government in order to steer the country through a new and uncertain road ahead. As the world considers what the ultimate legacy of Morales’s left-wing social experiment will be, this book will be of great interest to researchers across the fields of Latin American studies, development, politics, and economics, as well as to professionals active in the promotion of development in the country and the region.

River of Sorrows

River of Sorrows
Author: Libertad Demitrópulos
Publisher: White Pine Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2000
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781877727887

A woman dresses like a man and goes to war in this lyrical novel of love, ambition, deceit, courage and tragedy.

Contemporary World Fiction

Contemporary World Fiction
Author: Juris Dilevko
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2011-03-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1598849093

This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.

At the Threshold of Memory

At the Threshold of Memory
Author: Marjorie Agosín
Publisher: White Pine Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781893996625

A comprehensive selection of work from this renowned writer and human rights activist.

Magical Sites

Magical Sites
Author: Marjorie Agosín
Publisher: White Pine Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781877727948

This intriguing group of travel journals reveals the voices of women who travelled in Latin America during the nineteenth century. From French nuns who left their homelands to establish convents in Latin America to well-bred English women who accompanied their husbands on business travels, these women discovered a world beyond anything they had known or expected and recorded it in their diaries. Includes previously unpublished work, as editor Marjorie Agosin found some of these diaries tucked away and forgotten in a musty convent library in Santiago, Chile. All entries show us the private thoughts and indomitable spirits of women who dared to move beyond the safety of hearth and home and in doing so, discovered not only new lands, but also themselves.