Pelican Latin American Library
The Pelican Latin American Library (PLAL) was a specialist series of books published by Penguin Books UK in the 1970s. The series was inaugurated in the wake of the success of another Penguin imprint, the Penguin African Library. The general editor of the series was Richard Gott, the longtime Latin America correspondent of the Guardian.
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The Pelican Latin American Library (PLAL) was a specialist series of books published by Penguin Books UK in the 1970s. The series was inaugurated in the wake of the success of another Penguin imprint, the Penguin African Library. The general editor of the series was Richard Gott, the longtime Latin America correspondent of the Guardian.
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The series took off at a time when Latin American politics was buffeted by numerous challenges such as military dictatorship, American hegemony, widespread poverty, and guerrilla uprisings often inspired by Marxist liberation theology. The first book in the series was Carlos Marighela's For the Liberation of Brazil, translated by John Butt and Rosemary Sheed.
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- 1.vgl. Penguin African Library
- 2.Minding Their Own Business: Penguin in Southern Africa – ALISTAIR McCLEERY (Edinburgh Napier University)
- 3.Carlos Marighella, Conrad Detrez: Pour la libération du Brésil. Aubier-Montaigne, C. Bourgois, Buchet-Chastel, le Centurion, 1970; dt. unter dem Titel: Zerschlagt die Wohlstandsinseln der Dritten Welt : Mit d. Handbuch d. Guerilleros von São Paulo / Márcio M. Alves ; Conrad Detrez ; Marighela. Hrsg. von Conrad Detrez mit e. Einf. z. dt. Ausg. von Márcio M. Alves. [Übers.: Maja Reithmayer u. a.] Reinbek b. Hamburg : Rowohlt 1971 – vgl. DNB
- 4.'The Pelican Latin American Library' von Mike Davis, The Penguin Collector 81, December 2013
- 5.Victor Bulmer-Thomas (ed.): Britain and Latin America: A Changing Relationship. 1989, S. 50 (Anm. zu dem Artikel „Britain's cultural relations with Latin America“ von Gerald Martin); vgl. vdoc.pub (nach: Latin America Review of Books (London and Leeds, 1973), S. 218). - Beide mit dem Zusatz: “Times have changed.”
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