Latin America Writes Back : Postmodernity in the Periphery 9780203726921, 9780815332565

Latin America has been an important basis for theorizing the postmodern condition and has been the site of some of the m

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Latin America Writes Back : Postmodernity in the Periphery
9780203726921, 9780815332565

Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque. No One Writes Back is the story o

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Postmodernism may seem a particularly inappropriate term when used in conjunction with a region that is usually thought

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“Not many readers will thank the author as he deserves, for he has told us more about ourselves than we perhaps wish to

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Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries 12.5 mil

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“The guerrilla attitude is not so much that Latin America is ripe for revolution, but rather that it needs a revolution.

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17 June 2008 is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This

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Deborah Core offers practical guidance for beginning seminary students who feel overwhelmed and under-prepared to write

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The largely unknown story of the FBI’s surveillance operations in Latin America during the 1940s provides new insights i

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Latin America in Crisis builds a clear-eyed consideration of the fundamental economic and political realities of Latin A

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As a merger of past, present and future, and as a material embodiment of change, the ruin offers a fertile locale for co

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