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This is the first comprehensive study of the later novels of Spain’s most honored contemporary woman writer. Brown shares unpublished letters and conversations with Carmen Martín Gaite—a dear friend whom she called Calila—to elucidate her last six novels, all of which explore themes that are highly relevant today.

This is the first comprehensive study of the later novels of Spain’s most honored contemporary woman writer. Brown shares unpublished letters and conversations with Carmen Martín Gaite—a dear friend whom she called Calila—to elucidate her last six novels, all of which explore themes that are highly relevant today.

The career of Spain's celebrated author Carmen Martín Gaite spanned the Spanish Civil War, Franco's dictatorship, and the nation's transition to democracy. She wrote fiction, poetry, drama, screenplays for television and film, and books of literary and cultural analysis. Part 1 of this volume provides resources for instructors and a literary-historical chronology. The essays in part 2 consider Martín Gaite's best known novel, The Back Room, an...

What is a canon and why does it matter? In Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century, Joan L. Brown shows that a canon has the power to define a field and determine what is taught. She argues that it is both productive and necessary to confront our canons, to see what is actually in them and how these works and authors got there. Only then can educators take charge of their teaching canons and, by extension...

The career of Spain's celebrated author Carmen Martín Gaite spanned the Spanish Civil War, Franco's dictatorship, and the nation's transition to democracy. She wrote fiction, poetry, drama, screenplays for television and film, and books of literary and cultural analysis. Part 1 of this volume provides resources for instructors and a literary-historical chronology. The essays in part 2 consider Martín Gaite's best known novel, The Back Room, an...

How did an angel enter Victor Wolf's life? The answer was simple...at the hockey rink when a little schoolteacher asked a favor of him: to bring her the head of a poisonous snake when he went snake hunting. She didn't look like an angel. The deep discolored circles under her eyes reminded the coach of a raccoon. She looked as though she hadn't had a good night's sleep in a while. The tough hockey coach didn't look much better. He also had circ...

What is a canon and why does it matter? In Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century, Joan L. Brown shows that a canon has the power to define a field and determine what is taught. She argues that it is both productive and necessary to confront our canons, to see what is actually in them and how these works and authors got there. Only then can educators take charge of their teaching canons and, by extension...

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This book is about a person's brain and how it thinks. Consider the captain of a battleship in the ocean dropping anchor without knowing how deep the water is because no one knows the deepest parts of the ocean. It is the same with a person's heart. What makes a man love and not love? Or is there a compromise? People go to psychiatrists to search for answers about themselves. But then there's the man who doesn't want to know the truth. The one...

Do not judge a book by its cover. Evil may be good and good may be evil. A serial killer haunts St. Mary?s. Even the cops wonder if people go there to pray or to die.

On Madison Street - a Chicago street that owns her children - a boy hides from the police. Once Jr. is placed in a foster home, he doesn't have to steal to survive. Yet he finds himself hiding, searching for his identity.

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