Killer Crónicas

Killer Crónicas
Author: Susana Chávez-Silverman
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2004-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0299202232

A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author’s inventive and flamboyant use of Spanglish, a hybrid English-Spanish idiom, and her adaptation of the confessional "crónica" make this memoir compelling and powerful. Killer Crónicas confirms that there is no Latina voice quite like that of Susana Chávez-Silverman. Includes a chapter that was awarded first prize in El Andar magazine’s Chicano Literary Excellence Contest in the category of personal memoir.

Chasqui

Chasqui
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 680
Release: 1973
Genre: Latin American literature
ISBN:

Remedios Varo

Remedios Varo
Author: Remedios Varo
Publisher: Ediciones Era
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2008
Genre: Surrealism
ISBN: 9789684116788

Marijuana Boom

Marijuana Boom
Author: Lina Britto
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520325451

Before Colombia became one of the world’s largest producers of cocaine in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make the South American country the main supplier of marijuana for a booming US drug market, fueled by the US hippie counterculture. How did Colombia become central to the creation of an international drug trafficking circuit? Marijuana Boom is the story of this forgotten history. Combining deep archival research with unprecedented oral history, Lina Britto deciphers a puzzle: Why did the Colombian coffee republic, a model of Latin American representative democracy and economic modernization, transform into a drug paradise, and at what cost?

Sherwood Anderson's Pan-American Vision

Sherwood Anderson's Pan-American Vision
Author: Celia Catalina Esplugas
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476669147

Based on an analysis of Sherwood Anderson's letters, this study explores the novelist's principal inspiration during his final years (1938-1941): his exposure to Latin America. Thematically arranged correspondence traces his positive reception in South America--a place he saw as a source of fresh ideas and publishing opportunities--his desire to promote cultural relations between the two Americas, and his legacy among Spanish-speaking readers. The author discusses the political and economic climates of mid-20th century South American nations, their emerging liberal ideologies and the concerns Latin American readers had regarding societal upheaval, urbanization and the inequities of capitalism--all vividly depicted in Anderson's works.