LIBROS DEL AUTOR: laura kanost

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: laura kanost

  • SUMA PAZ
    Elvira Sánchez-Blake / Laura Kanost
    Suma Paz is a gripping true story of love, courage, and sacrifice. This literary chronicle brings to life the story of Mario Calderón and Elsa Alvarado, two Colombian environmentalists tragically assassinated in 1997.Set against the breathtaking backdrop of Sumapaz-the world’s largest páramo ecosystem-this powerful narrative explores the couple’s deep-rooted philosophy of peace...
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    26,64 €

  • La Castañeda Insane Asylum
    Cristina Rivera Garza / Laura Kanost
    La Castañeda Insane Asylum is the first inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum-a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. It links life within the asylum’s walls to the radical transformations brought about as Mexico entered the Revolution’s armed phase and then endured ...
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    42,74 €

  • A Dead Rose
    Aurora Caceres / Laura Kanost
    Unfairly forgotten Peruvian feminist writer Aurora Cáceres(1877-1958) has gained a new wave of readers in the 21stcentury –ironically, through her engagement of a literary movement, Spanish American modernismo, that denied women writers a place. Published in Paris in 1914, Cáceres’s novel La rosa muerta, translated by Laura Kanost as A Dead Rose, stands today as the most influe...
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    22,07 €

  • Latin American Women and the Literature of Madness
    Elvira Sánchez-Blake / Laura Kanost
    At the turn of the millennium, narrative works by Latin American women writers have represented madness within contexts of sociopolitical strife and gender inequality. This book explores contemporary Latin American realities through madness narratives by prominent women authors, including Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay), Lya Luft (Brazil), Diamela Eltit (Chile), Cristina River...
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    57,63 €