Ignacio Lopez-Calvo ; Marjorie Agosin

Iedere stem in deze roman vertolkt een persoonlijke zoektocht naar vrijheid en geeft een gezicht aan de mensen die een bestaan opbouwen in een land va

Every American is a descendant of either a Native American, and enslaved person, an immigrant, or a refugee. This book is devoted to the fourth catego

De smaak van iets zoets is als een knuffel, als zachtjes schommelen in een hangmat. Iets bitters voelt alsof er een tand uit je mond is gevallen en je

A deep meditation on the power and resonance of the sea.In a stunning collection of prose poems, Agosin reflect on the sea as a force of transformatio

Have you ever sat and watched a plant? The very idea itself might seem strange. We like to watch things that move, that do something. But in fact, pla

The untold story of Shakespeare’s profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group

Magical Realism analyses its evolution as well as its manifestations in different cultures. Several essays discuss the struggle between the hegemonic

This book covers the heterogeneity of Chilean literary production from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. It shifts critical focus from

More than 150 years ago, the first Chinese contract laborers ("coolies") arrived in Cuba to work the colonial plantations. Eventually, over 150,000 Ch

Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, is mythologized among Dominicans. This study of works a

On September 11, 1973, Chile's General Pinochet led a quick and brutal military coup ousting the Allende government. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo argues that t

The New York Times once hailed Chilean poet and author Roberto Bolano as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation." Bolan

Ben jij bijgelovig? Stiekem ook niet een heel klein beetje? Aan de hand van kleurrijke en hilarische illustraties leert Andrés López ons bekende en

First published in German in 1940 and widely recognized as a classic of philosophical anthropology, Laughing and Crying is a detailed investigation of

This bilingual (facing-page English and Spanish) poetry collection documents the Jewish-Chilean-American author's search for remnants of her grandmoth

Helena Broder fled from Nazi Vienna to Chile. Her great-grand-daughter, poet, novelist, and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin, takes us on a journ

Gabriela Mistral is the only Latin-American woman writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. This text explores the complex legacy of Mistra