On the Edge of the Holocaust : The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture 9781611688573, 9781611688566

The Space In-Between: Essays on Latin American Culture 9780822383321

A translation of selected essays by Brazilian critic and cultural theorist, Silviano Santiago.

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Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory 9780813574059

The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of r

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Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture 9781138234222, 9781315307671

This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin

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Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture 9781315307657, 9781138234222, 9781315307671

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After Representation?: The Holocaust, Literature, and Culture 9780813548159

After Representation? explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studiesùthe intersection of memory and ethics in art

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American Literature and the Culture Wars 9781501731273

Gregory S. Jay boldly challenges the future of American literary studies. Why pursue the study and teaching of a distinc

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On the Edge of the Law: Culture, Labor, and Deviance on the South Texas Border 9780292795440

The Valley of South Texas is a region of puzzling contradictions. Despite a booming economy fueled by free trade and rap

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American Rococo: Essays On the Edge

What do seashells, obesity, graffiti, and the American ghetto have in common? Nude hot springs and the Japanese theater?

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American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 9780812209747

The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Me

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The Economy of Religion in American Literature: Culture and the Politics of Redemption 9781350231672, 9781350231696, 9781350233997

This book offers a thoroughgoing reassessment of the relationship of religion and economics in American culture. Its gui

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