Adolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Author: Karl Posso

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2012-11-15

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1783165499

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Best known as Jorge Luis Borges’s right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914−1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic fiction, are now ripe for reassessment. This volume looks at Bioy’s extensive oeuvre which offers many surprising reflections on the twentieth century’s cultural, social and political transformations, both in Argentina and farther afield. Topics covered include Bioy’s meditations on isolation and logic, and his enduring fascination with the impact of photography on all artistic representation.

Historical Dictionary of Argentina
Historical Dictionary of Argentina

Author: Bernardo A. Duggan

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-04-15

Total Pages: 875

ISBN-13: 1538119706

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Argentina celebrated a century of independence from Spain in 1910, and the republic was the tenth most important trading nation in the global economy. Although it had the promise of growth and industrial development at the time, crises, mismanagement, and unrealized potential associated with authoritarianism, populism, and military coups (culminating in thousands of “disappearances” over a period of unparalleled state terror) prevented that from happening. By 2001, Argentina announced that it would not service its foreign debt, triggering the largest default in world financial history. Since then, the country has sought to recapture the potential and promise of the past, and its place in the world while escaping from what appeared to be an interminable cycle of expansion, crises, conflict, and institutional collapse. Historical Dictionary of Argentina contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and more than 800 cross-referenced entries on the country’s important personalities and aspects of its politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Argentina.

Spanish in the Americas
Spanish in the Americas

Author: Eleanor Greet Cotton

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2001-11-14

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780878403608

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This encyclopedic text focuses on the nature of Hispanic dialects, the spread of Spanish, and contemporary Spanish dialects in the Americas.

Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

Author: Verity Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1997-03-26

Total Pages: 2060

ISBN-13: 1135314241

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A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book

Catalog
Catalog

Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American Collection

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 812

ISBN-13:

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Knowledge and Censorship
Knowledge and Censorship

Author: I. Stavans

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-04-14

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0230611257

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This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the function of libraries in the electronic age, and the uses of censorship. In the second part of the volume, Verónica Albin engages Stavans in a series of four conversations in which he expounds on the arguments he developed in the essays.

An Inkwell of Pen Names
An Inkwell of Pen Names

Author: Stephen Smith

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2006-11-20

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 146284197X

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An Inkwell of Pen Names tells the stories of 100 authors’ pen names in a hundred short chapters. Many other authors who used pen names are discussed incidentally. Features of the compendium include pen names beginning with every letter of the alphabet, authors from twenty-five countries, the recipients of the Nobel Prize for literature who used pseudonyms, and a balanced selection of men and women authors.