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In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before.          Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa,        Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa all became part of        the general culture of educated readers of English, French, German, and Italian....

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Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, David Nash outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept - from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred and individual religious identity....

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In Search of the Black Fantastic is the most authoritative work available on black culture in the post-Civil Rights era. Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, popular culture functioned as a highly visible and important means of political expression. From Billie Holiday to Ralph Ellison, African...

This new volume in the Short Oxford History of Europe series looks at the sixteenth century - one of the most tumultuous and dramatic periods of social and cultural transformation in European history. Six leading experts consider this period from a variety of perspectives, including political, social, economic, religious, and intellectual history,...