Interviews with Latin American Writers
Author : Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Marie-Lise Gazarian
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 1989
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Stefano Varese
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1469661691
Combining personal and family recollections with incisive accounts of academic, political, and institutional experiences, The Art of Memory offers a remarkable account of the life of one of the foremost Latin American ethnographers and a leading expert in Indigenous cultures, peoples, and cosmologies. Varese narrates the story of his journey from Italy to Peru, his formative years as an Anthropologist and the critical work he did with Amazonian communities in the 1970s, his transformation into an activist scholar, his move to Mexico and his long-standing commitment with the peoples of Oaxaca, and his life as an academic in the United States. The reader will appreciate the honesty and transparency with which Varese brings out all these experiences. This extraordinary book combines the personal, the political, and the transnational to produce a vivid account of a unique and fulfilling journey.
Author : Evelyn Picon Garfield
Publisher : Detroit : Wayne State University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Valeria Luiselli
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1566894107
“Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and Márquez, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own. This deeply playful novel is about the passion and obsession of collecting, the nature of storytelling, the value of objects, and the complicated bonds of family. . . Luiselli has become a writer to watch, in part because it’s truly hard to know (but exciting to wonder about) where she will go next.”—The New York Times I was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth and my body completely covered in a very fine coat of fuzz. But I'm grateful for that inauspicious start because ugliness, as my other uncle, Eurípides López Sánchez, was given to saying, is character forming. Highway is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the "notorious infamous" like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli's own literary influences. Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's. Her novel, The Story of My Teeth, is the winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Fiction.
Author : Paris Review
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2003-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0679773495
The fourth book in the Modern Library’s Paris Review Writers at Work series, Latin American Writers at Work is a thundering collection of interviews with some of the most important and acclaimed Latin American writers of our time. These fascinating conversations were compiled from the annals of The Paris Review and include a new, lyrical Introduction by Nobel Prize–winning author Derek Walcott.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Latin American literature
ISBN :
Author : Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781564780102
Author : Reyna Grande
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451661800
In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border. Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling...unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother. When their mother at last returns, Reyna prepares for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of those places we first called home. Also available in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.
Author : Héctor Hoyos
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0231538669
Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also affirms the lead role of Latin American authors in reshaping world literature. Focusing on post-1989 Latin American novels and their representation of globalization, Hoyos considers the narrative techniques and aesthetic choices Latin American authors make to assimilate the conflicting forces at work in our increasingly interconnected world. Challenging the assumption that globalization leads to cultural homogenization, he identifies the rich textual strategies that estrange and re-mediate power relations both within literary canons and across global cultural hegemonies. Hoyos shines a light on the unique, avant-garde phenomena that animate these works, such as modeling literary circuits after the dynamics of the art world, imagining counterfactual "Nazi" histories, exposing the limits of escapist narratives, and formulating textual forms that resist worldwide literary consumerism. These experiments help reconfigure received ideas about global culture and advance new, creative articulations of world consciousness.