Ever since the nineteenth-century the imperial romance has been understood, on some level, not merely as a self-evident genre of adventure capable of producing an aesthetic experience but as a political construction of ideological identifications and exclusions. There is a serious dearth of critical work on late-imperial writers of popular romances written about the Anglo-African colonies and the regions beyond their imperial frontiers. A growing interest in Africa now means that even the Ang...

Inscribiéndose en la tradición de la Canción ribeirinha del portugués Paio Soares de Taveirós, fechada a 1148, Aleilton Fonseca hace del río un ‘espacio de encuentro, real o literariamente fingido, entre la persona poética y el objeto de deseo y de alabanza de los trovadores.’ El poeta da paso a la melancolía y la nostalgia del hombre ya maduro que reflexiona sobre su juventud y se inclina hacia sus primeras emociones de adolescente descubriendo a mozas. Quizá del tiempo del rí...

Oulipo n'est pas une avant-garde. Depuis plus de soixante ans, ce groupe, fondé en 1961 par l'écrivain français Raymond Queneau et le mathématicien français François le Lionnais, est toujours actif. Caractérisé par sa nature multigénérationnelle, de 1961 à aujourd'hui, l’Oulipo a réuni des personnalités littéraires et culturelles aussi diverses que Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Ross Chambers, Jacques Roubaud, Marcel Bénabou, Michelle Grangaud, ...

Samira Etouil, dans ce livre magnifique, explore le discours de l’altérité dans les carnets de voyage du Français Pierre Loti (1850-1923) intitulés Au Maroc. Cette approche interdisciplinaire a comme objectif d’identifier les stratégies discursives auxquelles est soumis l’Autre et d’analyser les modes de sa représentation. En ce sens, l’intérêt est porté sur les interactions qui gèrent les rapports au monde visité et les substrats culturels qui les définissent. L’auteu...

Like a spiral woven around two axes—a trip and a truncated novel—The Reef captures the insecurities of a time of terror, that of the Argentine military dictatorship of 1976-1983. But times and spaces are ambiguous as are the identities of the protagonist, the narrator, and the secondary characters of this novel written in an original, daring style. As the protagonist struggles to write her first novel, she is constantly interrupted and frustrated by reality. And so what would be a roma...

Soledad, de Alain Saint-Saëns, es la adaptación teatral de la novela de Juan Manuel Marcos, El invierno de Gunter. Cuenta la vida de tres jóvenes, Alberto, Verónica y Soledad bajo la Dictadura del General Stroessner en Paraguay.

'El mensaje de la obra literaria de Juan Manuel Marcos, El invierno de Gunter, es universal y actual. Valía ayer en el Paraguay del siniestro tiranosaurio el General Alfredo Stroessner, vale hoy en la Venezuela del Presidente Nicolás Maduro o en la República de...

The feminine, or 'Woman,' was one of the main inspirations in Modernismo's expression, and the still current exclusion of women poets from this movement's canon is contrary to its own foundational concepts of innovation, rupture and the importance of personal expression. This book examines the philosophical and epistemological underpinnings of Modernismo to show that there were indeed women who expressed beauty, broke with tradition and, in their search for a female Modernista voice, were inn...

Alain Saint-Saëns' riveting and enlightening novel, first part of a trilogy, explores his French ancestors' legendary past from the end of XVth Century and the time of King Francis I til the end of XVIIth Century under Louis XIV's reign.

'Ce que je sais de mes origines se perd dans la poussière des siècles. Passionné dès l’enfance par l’histoire de ma famille, j’ai volontiers prêté une oreille attentive aux discours nostalgiques et autres radotages éculés d’aïeux en fin de...

Peoples of South-Eastern Europe sometimes nurture through their music and poetry a feeling of intense longing that brings them at the same time sadness and happiness. Sevdah, the Balkan version of the famed Portuguese saudade, encompasses nostalgia for a lost homeland, youthful dreams, past loves, or even for things that never were. This autobiographical narrative of a Macedonian woman recreates her beloved South through childhood memories, family portraits and legends, and the history of an...

'Brillante ensayo crítico, el nuevo libro de Alain Saint-Saëns dedicado a la poesía de Juan Manuel Marcos, es al mismo tiempo una incursión apasionante dentro de la historia literaria, cultural y política del Paraguay del siglo XX. Gracias a la cultura impresionante, la sensibilidad poética y el talento evidente de Alain Saint-Saëns, sus lectores descubrirán no solamente la poesía potente, noble y bella de Juan Manuel Marcos, sin duda una de las más ricas hojas de la historia liter...