Catherine Davies

New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches

The third installment in the landmark LAVIS (Language Variety in the South) series, New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches brings together essays devoted to the careful examination and elucidation of the rich linguistic diversity of the American Sou...

Sab: By Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (Hispanic Texts MUP) (Spanish Edition)

This tale of a slave's unrequited love for the woman who owns him is set in nineteenth-century colonial Cuba and was the only feminist-abolitionist novel published during the century in Spain or its colonies. This unique text raises important issues concerning power, race, gender and class in coloni...

A Place in the Sun: Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Cuba

Women have published a rich and varied selection of work in Cuba throughout the twentieth century. Their writings give us a crucial insight into the recent history of that country. In this book, Catherine Davies develops a sophisticated and theoretically informed feminist reading of works by authors...

Latin American Women's Writing: Feminist Readings in Theory and Crisis (Oxford Hispanic Studies)

This collection of essays on Latin American women's writing-written by the leading feminist critics in Latin America, the United States, and Europe-rethinks notions of gender and cultural identity and examines the specific discursive practices of a range of female-authored texts. The contributors of...

The Quotable Doctor Who: 2000 Quotations about the World's Favourite Time Lord, Vol. 1

"THE QUOTABLE DOCTOR WHO - Dr Who Quotes: Volume One" is a fully comprehensive collection of 2000 thematic quotations about the world's longest-running sci-fi television show "Doctor Who" ... and the time-travelling Time Lord himself, The Doctor. This deeply-researched and well-presented compendium...

The Companion to Hispanic Studies

What is 'Hispanic Studies'? This companion gives a concise and accessible overview of the discipline as taught today and suggests new directions for future developments. 'Hispanic Studies' is broadly concerned with the languages and cultures of the vast 'Hispanic' world, extending chronologically fr...

Whitman's Queer Children: America's Homosexual Epics

Davies examines the work of four of the most important twentieth-century poets who have explored the epic tradition. Some of the poems display an explicit concern with ideas of American nationhood, while others emulate the formal ambitions and encyclopaedic scope of the epic poem. The study undertak...

Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century, as told to her daughter Daisy Rubiera Castillo. (Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review): An article from: Labour/Le Travail

This digital document is an article from Labour/Le Travail, published by Canadian Committee on Labour History on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1544 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in y...

Latin American Women's Writing: Feminist Readings in Theory and Crisis

Latin American Women's Writing: Feminist Readings in Theory and Crisis

English And Ethnicity

English And Ethnicity

The Companion to Hispanic Studies

The Companion to Hispanic Studies

Spanish Women's Writing, 1849-1996

Spanish Women's Writing, 1849-1996