A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento’s Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published, this foundational text appears here for the first time in its entirety. An educator and writer, Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. His Facundo is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835–1852). The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today―questions regarding the "civilized" city versus the "barbaric" countryside, the treatment of indigenous and African populations, and the classically liberal plan of modernization. Facundo’s celebrated and frequently anthologized portraits of the caudillo Juan Facundo Quiroga and other colorful characters give readers an exhilarating sense of Argentine culture in the making. Kathleen Ross’s translation renders Sarmiento’s passionate prose into English with all its richness intact, allowing the English-language reader the full experience of Facundo’s intensity and historical reach.

Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism (Latin American Literature and Culture) (Volume 12)

Echevarría, Roberto González

ROSS, Kathleen

Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino Faustino

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University of California Press

The Canto General, thought by many of Neruda’s most prominent critics to be the poet’s masterpiece, is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people.

Canto General (Volume 7) (Latin American Literature and Culture)

Literature & Fiction

NERUDA,PABLO

Schmitt, Jack

History & Criticism

Myth and Archive offers a new theory about the origin and evolution of the Latin American narrative, and about the emergence of the modern novel. Instead of following the traditional categories set up by literary history, Professor González Echevarría explores the relationship of the narrative to the language of authority: the law in the colonial period, science in the nineteenth century, and anthropology in the twentieth century. The book contains readings of major works in the tradition such as Garcilaso el Inca's Comentarios reales, Sarmiento's Facundo, Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos, and García Marquez's Cien años de soledad.

Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative (Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature, Series Number 3)

Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature Set

Pupo-Walker, Enrique

Alejo Carpentier, the pilgrim at home

Cornell University Press

La prole de Celestina. Continuidades del barroco en las literaturas española e hispanoamericana.

Editorial Colibri

La Gloria de Cuba Narra la historia del beisbol en Cuba., y el jugado por cubanos en otros paises como Estados Unidos y Mexico, desde que Nemesio Guillo trajo a la isla la primera pelota en 1868 hasta el presente. Pero en vez de comenzar con ese remoto origen el libro abre con el decisivo juego entre Habana y Almendares celebrado el 25 de febrero de 1947 que decidio el campeonato del torneo invernal de ese ano, el primero desarrolado en el flamante Stadum de la Habana.........

La Gloria de Cuba: Historia del beisbol en la isla

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