Product Description: This is a book about play practice rather than play theory. Of course, practice presupposes theory, but here the editors choose to keep general theoretical assumptions under cover rather then force them into explicitness. The contributors to this volume were given free rein to discuss whatsoever aspect of literary play caught their fancy...read more

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A leading Latin American progressive writer and intellectual recalls the four months he spent in Cuba in 1970 trying to reopen the Chilean embassy and confronting the evils of the Castro regime in the process. Reprint.

The broad-based tension between Hector, a disillusioned Cuban poet, disenchanted revolutionary, and closet homosexual, and his wife mirror the harsh reality of life under Castro's rule

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The narrator offers his surrealistic impressions of life in Cuba as he struggles to maintain his sanity in the face of brutal repression

Product Description: The confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers supported some of the earliest settlements in America.  From the Cahokia Mounds civilization to the flood of 1993, residents of the St. Louis region have depended on this landscape even as they have threatened its bounty...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

'Andrew Hurley's fine translation makes available this acclaimed Puerto Rican novelist's La renuncia del hâeroe Baltasar (1974), the fictive chronicles of an arranged marriage plotted to save Puerto Rico from certain slave rebellion. Interspersed lectures, letters, and documents reconstruct conflicts of class and race set in Island's colonial past. Occasional footnotes, but an introduction would have added insights for the nonspecialized reader'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Baltasar Montanez, an eighteenth-century Puerto Rican hero and the son of a slave leader, renounces his own people and marries the daughter of the secretary of state, in a deal created by the government to ease tension between the ruling and slave classes

'Andrew Hurley's fine translation makes available this acclaimed Puerto Rican novelist's La renuncia del hâeroe Baltasar (1974), the fictive chronicles of an arranged marriage plotted to save Puerto Rico from certain slave rebellion. Interspersed lectures, letters, and documents reconstruct conflicts of class and race set in Island's colonial past. Occasional footnotes, but an introduction would have added insights for the nonspecialized reader'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Baltasar Montanez, an eighteenth-century Puerto Rican hero and the son of a slave leader, renounces his own people and marries the daughter of the secretary of state, in a deal created by the government to ease tension between the ruling and slave classes

The first complete, annotated collection of short stories in English by the twentieth-century Spanish master ranges from his 1935 debut up to his last work, Shakespeare's Memory, in its first appearance in English. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book traces the history of Buena Vista, an estate located in the southern foothills of Puerto Rico's central mountain range. Now a popular living history museum, Buena Vista flourished in the nineteenth century--first as a farm that furnished food for the city of Ponce and surrounding plantations, later as a producer of corn and cornmeal ground at the estate's water-powered mill, and finally as a coffee plantation...read more

The first complete, annotated collection of short stories in English by the twentieth-century Spanish master ranges from his 1935 debut up to his last work, Shakespeare's Memory, in its first appearance in English. Reprint. PW. NYT. AB.

The final work from one of the finest Latin American authors offers a powerful and passionate saga of the triumph of the human spirit and will in the face of political and sexual repression. By the author of Before Night Falls. (view table of contents)

Examines the history of the three quintessentially American institutions of diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks to explore the struggle of blue-collar Americans to attain the good life after two long decades of depression and war.

Tells of the adventures of Fray Servando, a Catholic priest who wanders through Europe, slips in and out of jails, escapes the clutches of a marriage-minded woman, and outwits a slaveship captain, an American planter, and the King of Spain. Reprint.

Leaving her poverty-stricken life in Havana to search for her first true love, Danae returns to the countryside area where she met the woman she seeks, and their subsequent relationship proves challenging to both women and to Danae's family.