LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david william foster

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  • Handbook of Latin American Literature (Routledge Revivals)
    David William Foster
    First published in 1987 (second edition in 1992), the Handbook of Latin American Literature offers readers the opportunity to explore this literary history in the English Language and constitutes an ideological approach to Latin American Literature. It provides both concise information concerning particular authors, works, and literary traditions of Latin America as well as com...
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    178,74 €

  • Argentine, Mexican, and Guatemalan Photography
    David William Foster
    One of the important cultural responses to political and sociohistorical events in Latin America is a resurgence of urban photography, which typically blends high art and social documentary. But unlike other forms of cultural production in Latin America, photography has received relatively little sustained critical analysis. This pioneering book offers one of the first in-depth...
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    29,54 €

  • Glimpses of Phoenix
    David William Foster
    Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday. Also that Phoenix, the Arizona state capital, is a 'clean' city (despite a past of police corruption and social oppression). The 'real' Phoenix, easygoing, sun-drenched, a place of ever-expanding development and economic growth, guarantees, it is said, an env...
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    57,54 €

  • Urban Photography in Argentina
    David William Foster
    This work examines the cultural impact of photography in Argentina following the end of the country’s military dictatorship in the early 1980s. The interpretive study surveys nine modern photographers in Argentina--Marcelo Brodsky, Gabriel Valansi, Eduardo Gil, Gaby Messina, Adriana Lestido, Gabriel Diaz, Marcos Lopez, Silivio Fabrykant and Gabriela Liffschitz--and covers th...
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    42,64 €

  • Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
    David William Foster
    Viewing contemporary Latin American films through the lens of queer studies reveals that many filmmakers are exploring issues of gender identity and sexual difference, as well as the homophobia that attempts to defeat any challenge to the heterosexual norms of patriarchal culture. In this study of queer issues in Latin American cinema, David William Foster offers highly percept...
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    26,64 €

  • Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema
    David William Foster
    Just as Mexican national life has come to center on the sprawling, dynamic, almost indefinable metropolis of Mexico City, so recent Mexican cinema has focused on the city not merely as a setting for films but almost as a protagonist in its own right, whose conditions both create meaning for and receive meaning from the human lives lived in its midst. Through close readings of f...
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    26,85 €

  • Sexual Textualities
    David William Foster
    Since the 1991 publication of his groundbreaking book Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing, David William Foster has proposed a series of theoretical and critical principles for the analysis of Latin American culture from the perspectives of the queer. This book continues that project with a queer reading of literary and cultural aspects of Latin American texts. Mov...
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    26,74 €

  • Mexican Literature
    David William Foster
    Mexico has a rich literary heritage that extends back over centuries to the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective. More than merely a catalog of names and titles, it examines in detail the literary phenomena that constitute Mexico’s most significant and original contri...
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    60,30 €

  • Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing
    David William Foster
    A taboo subject in many cultures, homosexuality has been traditionally repressed in Latin America, both as a way of life and as a subject for literature. Yet numerous writers have attempted to break the cultural silence surrounding homosexuality, using various strategies to overtly or covertly discuss lesbian and gay themes. In this study, David William Foster examines more tha...
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    26,86 €

  • Social Realism in the Argentine Narrative
    David William Foster
    The Argentine military coup of September 1930 sparked not only the country’s 'Infamous Decade,' but also two decades rich in novelistic development. In this study, David Foster offers a reassessment of social realism in Argentine literary production from 1930 to 1950.This expansive study encompasses the work of authors including Berbardo, Kordon, Leonidas, Barletta, Jose Rabino...
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    38,58 €

  • The Myth of Paraguay in the Fiction of Augusto Roa Bastos
    David William Foster
    This study presents an analysis of two works by Augusto Roa Bastos, El trueno entre las hojas and Hijo de hombre. In his investigation of these texts, Foster traces the development of Roa Bastos’s concern with the reality of his people and their history, and focuses on the mature techniques employed in the creation of a literary myth of a social reality. ...
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    38,50 €