LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American

Paper · Semantic Scholar

This article analyzes the work Nebulosas (1872) by the 19th-century Brazilian poet, Narcisa Amália. Following the recent revival of her work, this paper proposes a critical reading that transcends its purely romantic classification to explore the complexity of her poetic voice. Using a literary analysis focused on symbolic and metaphorical structures, it examines three interconnected thematic axes: the construction …

Reference · Wikidata

scientific article published on 01 April 2010

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography (DCALAB) is a six-volume, 2080-entry biographical dictionary that was published in May 2016 by Oxford University Press. The project was funded by the Mellon Foundation. The editors were Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Book · DOAB

Public reading programs are flourishing in many Latin American cities in the new millennium. They defy the conception of reading as solitary and private by literally taking literature to the streets to create new communities of readers. From institutional and official to informal and spontaneous, the reading programs all use public space, distribute creative writing to a mass public, foster collective rather than in…

Full text · Open Library

"The essays in this volume consider various literary and linguistic aspects of the francophone Caribbean at the beginning of the twenty-first century, focusing particularly on the French Overseas Departments of Martinique and Guadeloupe, and the independent islands of Haiti and Dominica. The literary chapters are devoted to new voices in the region and the Caribbean diaspora, or to recent works by established author…

Image · DPLA

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