Novels from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Latin America are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel’s history and analyzes in depth several…
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Novels from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Latin America are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel’s history and analyzes in depth several…
Read MoreOne of the major novelists in world literature over the last five decades, Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936) is also one of Latin America’s most engaging public intellectuals, a critic…
Read MoreRevered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet. Poems of the Night is a moving collection of the great literary visionary’s poetic meditations…
Read MoreComment est né le concept de « race » ? Pourquoi est-il devenu si rapidement hiérarchique, distinguant les « races inférieures » des « races supérieures » ? Et comment…
Read MoreThis edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic museums, world fairs, zoological…
Read MoreLiterary production is increasingly shaped by globalization and the complex nature of cultural, political, and social interaction. As such, longstanding colonial and postcolonial relations between Africa and Europe have yielded…
Read MoreThis landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory,…
Read MoreAnnette Smith and Dominic Thomas’s new translations of Aimé Césaire’s Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Solar Throat Slashed (poems deleted) expose to a new audience a pivotal figure in twentieth-century…
Read MoreDans cet ouvrage original à plus d’un titre, Dominic Thomas explore les impacts sur les sociétés et populations africaines de la dissolution partielle des structures d’États-nations modernes en faveur de…
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