David William Foster
Author
Series
Twayne's world authors series. Spain volume TWAS 185
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[©1971]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
"Foster continues the same line of study initiated in 1985 with the publication of Alternative voices in the Latin American narrative (see HLAS 48:5657). Questions body of literary criticism devoted exclusively to the study of major Latin American authors. Seeks to broaden understanding of the history of lettered production in Latin America by examining a more diverse body of works. Studies gay culture, children's and women's literature, and Argentine...
Author
Series
Twayne's world authors volume TWAS 266
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
The chapters in this volume are contributions toward a reassessment of contemporary Latin American writing and are based on the strategy of willfully imposing a perspective at radical variance with the existing bibliography on the subject. By eschewing the approach of a historical overview, by focusing on works that are not predominantly available in English translation, by choosing categories that do not evoke prevailing literary norms, and by concentrating...
Author
Series
University of Missouri studies volume 43
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
Before proceeding to an examination of Cela's works, mention of the critical orientation of this study may prove of some assistance to the reader. My primary intent is to discuss the novels in order to underline the "proteic" nature of the structure of Cela's writings. This approach is descriptive rather than historical.
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ignacio Matus is a public school history teacher in Monterrey, Mexico, who gets fired because of his patriotic rantings about Mexico's repeated humiliations by the United States. Not only did Mexico's northern neighbor steal a large swath of the country in the Mexican-American War, but according to Matus it also denied him Olympic glory. Excluded from the 1924 Olympics, Matus ran his own parallel marathon and beat the time of the American who officially...
Author
Publisher
Hesperus Nova
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Now a major motion picture, this is a story of obsession, loyalty, and control as one man with dark intentions charms his way into the lives of an innocent, unsuspecting family, based on the true exile of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele to South America Patagonia, 1960. Jose is on the run. Having fled from his homeland of Germany, he has come to South America to continue his work as a doctor seeking to manipulate genes to create the perfect human race....
Series
Garland reference library of the humanities volume 1912
Publisher
Garland Pub
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English