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...

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...

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...

'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...

“Peering into the labyrinth of Mexico’s justice system in the 1970s, Vicious Circle could have been written yesterday. Mexican playwright José Agustín skillfully integrates enduring themes relevant in contemporary Mexico—drugs, crime, and corruption—to weave together an unenviable prisoner’s dilemma for four young hippies who find themselves between the rock and hard place that was Mexico’s unforgiving Lecumberri prison, where Agustín found his inspiration. Exceptionally transl...

Ce livre, La Nouvelle-Orléans et son Port en 1954, est le fruit des recherches sur le terrain d’un jeune étudiant de l’École des Sciences Politiques de Paris, Jacques Chirac. Ce petit ouvrage vient jeter un éclairage utile sur la pensée en formation d’un étudiant curieux, critique et lucide ; il devra être pris en compte par les futurs historiens de l’homme politique qui aura marqué l’histoire de la France contemporaine des dernières quarante années. Jacques Chirac retour...

Dividuals explores the other side, or hidden side of modern subjectivity, as seen in (mostly four) early modern Spanish classics. Veering away from the hypertrophied notions of individuality and identity, which constitute the bases of our own post-humanism and even anti-humanism, this essay looks into how, as humans, and as humanists, we have a long history of showing dividuality, a never-ending split in our beings. The split manifests itself in the humanist’s split between historicist, soc...

Послушайте! Listen Up! is intended for intermediate-level students who want to improve their listening and speaking communication skills. Focusing on language in the context of everyday communicative acts (e.g. making requests, seeking and giving advice, apologizing etc.), the book provides students with multiple opportunities to practice listening and speaking in a variety of real-life situations. A host of individual, pair, and group activities in each chapter develop effective li...