epub |eng | 2020-08-11 | Author:Álvaro Santana-Acuña

CONCLUSION The collapse of the niche responsible for the imagination, production, and early circulation of a literary work is an important step for the work to start climbing the ladder ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Laraway

In short, as Dahlmann’s own story continues to evolve toward its inexorable, if ambiguous, conclusion, his future seems to have been shaped—perhaps even overdetermined—by the contours of a highly idealized ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Raymond Leslie Williams [Williams, Raymond Leslie]

PART III Rereading Vargas Llosa All of Vargas Llosa’s sixteen novels have to do, to varying degrees, with trauma, loss, and dealing with these and closely related issues as they ...

epub |eng | 2017-07-14 | Author:Etherington, Ben [Etherington, Ben]

Chapter 7 CLAUDE MCKAY’S PRIMITIVIST NARRATION Among the authors whose work is considered in this book, Claude McKay’s primitivist novels conform most closely to the abstract morphology of primitivism that ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-04 | Author:Sanjay Krishnan

A Bend in the River offers a portrait of the slow and gradual way in which the social institutions of a newly independent nation are undermined and begin to fall ...

epub |eng | | Author:Solimar Otero

4 SIRENS Ce qui existe par totalité relativisée. —Édouard Glissant, Le discours antillais What stories are told about materially fluid beings in archives of conjure? In this chapter, I investigate ...

epub |eng | 2003-03-15 | Author:Harriet Turner & Adelaida López De MartÍnez [Turner]

This is an extraordinary passage. It upsets all our expectations as readers of Romantic texts. Concha has died, and instead of the sadly dignified treatment we are waiting for, she ...

epub |eng | 1997-11-15 | Author:Robert Bly [Bly, Robert]

This stanza was from one of the most transparent and lively of Juan Ramón’s poems; I had taken two lines from the stanza as an epigraph for a poem I ...

epub |eng | | Author:Nesbitt, Nick;

CHAPTER SEVEN The Baron de Vastey and the Contradictions of Scribal Critique As scholars, including Laurent Dubois and myself, have argued, it was revolutionary Saint-Domingue that remained faithful to the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Don E. Walicek & Jessica Adams

epub |eng | | Author:Cassander L. Smith & Nicholas R. Jones & Miles P. Grier

Candy, the Naïve Witness Tituba manipulated the Salem Witch Trials through her knowledge or eye-witness accounts. Candy survived the trials through dissimulation, adopting a persona of ignorance. Although we do ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-20 | Author:Rebecka Rutledge Fisher [Rebecka Rutledge Fisher]

Notes 1 . As captured, for example, by Markha Valenta’s stunning formulation: “[I]t is the continuing resonance of Europe’s bestial impulses half a century ago that today spurs Europe’s continued ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:Erin James

5 National Myths and Ontological Boundaries in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road Trilogy Early in Ben Okri’s Booker Prize–winning novel The Famished Road (1991), a poor African mother tells her ...

mobi |eng | 2015-10-14 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges

BORGES. That’s the problem with heaven . . . no, but perhaps there’s a meagre population in heaven, no? Since many are called but few are chosen. Here I remember ...

mobi |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges

. . . . . . . . . . 24 Westerns or Cinema Epics • OSVALDO FERRARI. Borges, we have talked about different cultures, literatures and religions. Today, I ...