Where this Lake is

Where this Lake is
Author: Jeff Lodge
Publisher: White Pine Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781877727689

An American operating a restaurant in a small town in Guatemala investigates the murder of a local man, shot and thrown in a lake. Jerry Hopkins realizes the probe is a dangerous enterprise for a gringo to undertake, but the victim was his friend.

Encyclopedia of the American Short Story

Encyclopedia of the American Short Story
Author: Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Total Pages: 3225
Release: 2015-04-22
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 1438140754

Two-volume set that presents an introduction to American short fiction from the 19th century to the present.

The Latino Reader

The Latino Reader
Author: Harold Augenbraum
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780395765289

"The Latino Reader" presents the full history of this important American literary tradition, from its mid-sixteenth-century beginnings to the present day. The wide-ranging selections include works of history, memoir, letters, and essays, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama.

Healing Cultures

Healing Cultures
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113707647X

The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in jeopardy? What are the "antidotes" or healing modalities for an ailing culture? Healing Cultures addresses these questions from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, holistic folk traditions, literature, film, cultural and religious studies - bringing together the broad range of beliefs and the spectrum of practices that have sustained the peoples and cultures of the Caribbean.

Albanian Journal

Albanian Journal
Author: Edmund Keeley
Publisher: White Pine Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1997
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781877727764

While traveling the road to Elbasan, Keeley and his companions seek to learn about the terrible fifty years of physical and spiritual drought brought on by the Stalinist regime of Enver Hoxha and to see the first steps Albania has taken toward a more democratic government. Along the way, Keeley records in sometimes lyrical and humorous detail their meetings with people rejoicing in their new found freedoms.

The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
Author: Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2002-08-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521794664

Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called Gothic story ) to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between high and popular culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.

Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization

Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization
Author: Helen C. Scott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317169689

Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization offers a fresh reading of contemporary literature by Caribbean women in the context of global and local economic forces, providing a valuable corrective to much Caribbean feminist literary criticism. Departing from the trend towards thematic diasporic studies, Helen Scott considers each text in light of its national historical and cultural origins while also acknowledging regional and international patterns. Though the work of Caribbean women writers is apparently less political than the male-dominated literature of national liberation, Scott argues that these women nonetheless express the sociopolitical realities of the postindependent Caribbean, providing insight into the dynamics of imperialism that survive the demise of formal colonialism. In addition, she identifies the specific aesthetic qualities that reach beyond the confines of geography and history in the work of such writers as Oonya Kempadoo, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, Pauline Melville, and Janice Shinebourne. Throughout, Scott's persuasive and accessible study sustains the dialectical principle that art is inseparable from social forces and yet always strains against the limits they impose. Her book will be an indispensable resource for literature and women's studies scholars, as well as for those interested in postcolonial, cultural, and globalization studies.

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.

Remaking a Lost Harmony

Remaking a Lost Harmony
Author: Margarite Fernández Olmos
Publisher: White Pine Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781877727368

Twenty-five short stories from the Hispanic Caribbean. In Pedro Peix's Requiem for a Wreathless Corpse, a family tries to capitalize on the death of a relative who was a famous guerrilla, while the story, Now That I'm Back, Ton, is on a man's disappointment following his return home.

Sacred Possessions

Sacred Possessions
Author: Margarite Fernández Olmos
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780813523613

For review see: Joseph M. Murphy, in HAHR : The Hispanic American Historical Review, 78, 3 (August 1998); p. 495-496.