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This Spanish-language study of the pre-creacionist periods of Diego and Huidobro includes the work of both poets from the beginning of their careers. ... Read more

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This dual-language format makes "Quadras ao Gosta Popular/Quatrains of the Popular Style" accessible to scholars who do not read Portuguese. ... Read more

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Indios en Escena engages both the Baroque and Colonial fields of Hispanism in order to reevaluate fourteen major plays of Spanish Golden Age literature from a social-historical perspective. Castillo argues that these plays portray Amerindians not in their otherness but as subjects of an empire. It is the author's contention that these dramas reveal the vast contradictions between the two leading ideological trends of the age as performed on the stage: the discourse of honor and the juridical-theological code, both of which attempt to assimilate the Amerindian phenomenon under the auspices of church and state. These works consistently raise the paradoxical question of how a person can be a savage and have honor at the same time. Castillo claims that this theater propagates the concept of the Amerindian both as honorable subject, a theatrical archetype, and idolatrous barbarian, a model of representation that belongs to the mindset of religious crusades and evangelical enterprises. ... Read more

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Sixty Acres and a Barn is Alfred Lewis s long-awaited posthumous novel. Completed in the years before the author's death in 1977, this evocative narrative tells the coming-of-age story of Luis Sarmento, an immigrant who finds in America a place of tolerance, prosperity and emotional fulfillment. This slice of immigrant life in California dairy farming is rendered memorably in prose at once insightful, lyrical, and realistic in its representation of obstacles faced by those who live in insular enclaves between cultures. Sixty Acres moves beyond the idealized homeland of his first novel, Home is and Island (1951) and constitutes a serious contribution to postwar ethnic literature, making Lewis the precursor of acclaimed writers like Katherine Vaz and Frank X. Gaspar. ... Read more

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Easy read
As a person who was born in the Azores, but raised and educated in the US, I could relate a lot to this book.I could see a lot of common characteristics in the main character of this book.I really enjoyed it. ... Read more

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The volume contains 36 articles on topics of Spanish, Latin America, and Brazilian literature and culture, which were selected from among the 241 papers presented at the Eighth Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures (LA CHISPA), sponsored by Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, February 26-28, 1987. Hispanists from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay. and almost all of the States of the USA participated. The articles of the following authors appear in the volume:Geoffrey R. Barrow (Purdue University, Calumet); Mary G. Berg (Harvard University, MA); Frieda H. Blackwell (Howard Payne University, TX); Mireya Camurati (SUNY at Buffalo); Frank P. Casa (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Birute Ciplijauskaite (University of Wisconsin, Madison); Alicia de Colombi Monguio (SUNY at Albany); Eladio Cortes (Rutgers University, Camden); Glen F. Dille (Bradley University, IL); Lee H. Dowling (University of Houston, TX); Tomas Eloy Martinez (University of Maryland, College Park); Michael J. Flys (Arizona State University, Tempe); Victor Fuentes (University of California, Santa Barbara); Pablo Gil Casado (The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Jesus Gutierrez (Wayne State University, MI); Sharon Kuusisto (The College of St. Catherine, MN); Myron I. Lichtblau (Syracuse University, NY); John R. Maier (Bradford College, MA); Harold K. Moon (Brigham Young University, UT): Jose Munoz Millanes (Princeton University, NJ); Patricia W. O'Connor (University of Cincinnati, OH); Nelson R. Orringer (University of Connecticut); Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira (Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil); Janet Perez (Texas Tech University, Lubbock); Catherine R. Perricone (Auburn University, AL); Mary Elizabeth Perry (The University of California, Los Angeles); T. A. Perry (University of Connecticut); Jose Manuel Polo de Bernabe (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Phoebe Porter (Smith College, MA); Francisco Salvador Salvador (Universidad de Granada, Spain); Ivan A. Schulman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); William L. Siemens (West Virginia University, Morgantown); Ronald E. Surtz (Princeton University, NJ); Barry L. Velleman (Marquette University, WI); Heanon M. Wilkins (Miami University, OH); Frederick R. Worth (Randolph-Macon College, VA). ... Read more

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Reading Castro Alves...
There are few literary experiences comparable to meet this brazilian author. This book is an excellent introduction to his abolitionist poems. The whole oeuvre of Castro Alves deserve attention, and in the wait of anextensive edition of its translated works, it could be illuminating to trythe portuguese editions. Whitout forget the novelized biography of the poetby Jorge Amado, a classic on its own. ... Read more

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A Magical tale of lust, power, betrayal, and forgiveness.
Neste livro, Nélida Piñon nos revela a mulher oculta por trás do mito da mais famosa narradora da literatura oriental - Scherezade. Contando suas histórias ao Califa, ela o entreteve por mil e uma noites, utilizando o poder mágico da fábula contra a opressão tirânica do soberano.

Quarta mulher a ingressar na Academia Brasileira de Letras e primeira a presidir a instituição, Nélida Piñon é uma referência na literatura brasileira. Passando a ocupar, em 1990, a cadeira que antes pertencera a Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, foi eleita Secretária Geral da casa em 1995 e no ano seguinte já era a presidente da Casa de Machado de Assis.



From one of Brazil's most beloved writers, a magical tale of lust, power, betrayal, and forgiveness set in the royal court of thirteenth-century Baghdad: a sumptuous retelling of the legend of Scheherazade that illuminates her character as never before. In exquisite prose, Nélida Piñon transports us from the Caliph's private sanctum to the crowded streets of the forbidden marketplace, to the high seas of imagination, and to Scheherazade's innermost life, as she weaves her tales night after night.

As the novel opens, the Caliph, betrayed by the Sultana, vows to take his revenge on the women of his kingdom by marrying a different virgin each night and executing her at dawn. Born into privilege, a daughter of the Vizier, Scheherazade decides to risk her life by marrying the Caliph, in an effort to save the women of Baghdad. ... Read more

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The Gunnysack Castle was first published by Ohio University Press in 1983. A study of the character of Belle Bettencourt was published by Cosmopolitan Magazine in March 1964. The second section of The Death of Mae Ramos, Vasco and the Other, was originally published in 1979 under a different title and in a slightly different form in the University of Colorado's Writer s Forum 6. ... Read more