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  • Argentine, Mexican, and Guatemalan Photography

    Feminist, Queer, and Post-Masculinist Perspectives

    by David William Foster ...
    One of the important cultural responses to political and sociohistorical events in Latin America is a resurgence of urban photography, which typically blends high art and social documentary. But unlike other forms of cultural production in Latin America, photography has received relatively little sustained critical analysis. This pioneering book offers one of the first in-depth investigations of ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond

    Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil

    by David William Foster ...
    Series series World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
    El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium’s most significant and copious output. Argentine graphic narrative emerged in the 1980s, awakened by Héctor Oesterheld’s groundbreaking 1950s serial El Eternauta. After Oesterheld was “disappeared” under the military dictatorship, El Eternauta became one ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Christian Allegory in Early Hispanic Poetry

    by David William Foster ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in Romance Languages
    Distinguishing figural or typological allegory—a method adapted from the Christian exegesis of the Old Testament—from the broader Hellenistic concept of allegory, this book examines its use in representative poems of early Hispanic literature. The author focuses on the thematic and structural employment of this originally nonliterary device and comments on the literary problems it posed and the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing

    by David William Foster ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    A taboo subject in many cultures, homosexuality has been traditionally repressed in Latin America, both as a way of life and as a subject for literature. Yet numerous writers have attempted to break the cultural silence surrounding homosexuality, using various strategies to overtly or covertly discuss lesbian and gay themes. In this study, David William Foster examines more than two dozen texts ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema

    by David William Foster ...
    Just as Mexican national life has come to center on the sprawling, dynamic, almost indefinable metropolis of Mexico City, so recent Mexican cinema has focused on the city not merely as a setting for films but almost as a protagonist in its own right, whose conditions both create meaning for and receive meaning from the human lives lived in its midst. Through close readings of fourteen recent ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

    by David William Foster ...
    "Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In this book, he examines gender issues in thirteen Brazilian films made (with one exception) after the 1985 return to constitutional democracy and elimination of censorship to show how these issues arise from and comment on the sociohistorical reality of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

    by David William Foster ...
    Viewing contemporary Latin American films through the lens of queer studies reveals that many filmmakers are exploring issues of gender identity and sexual difference, as well as the homophobia that attempts to defeat any challenge to the heterosexual norms of patriarchal culture. In this study of queer issues in Latin American cinema, David William Foster offers highly perceptive queer readings ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Picturing the Barrio

    Ten Chicano Photographers

    by David William Foster ...
    Series series
    Mexican-American life, like that of nearly every contemporary community, has been extensively photographed. Yet there is surprisingly little scholarship on Chicano photography. Picturing the Barrio presents the first book-length examination on the topic. David William Foster analyzes the imagery of ten distinctive artists who offer a range of approaches to portraying Chicano life. The production ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • The Writer's Reference Guide to Spanish

    by David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda, Carmen de Urioste ...
    Writers and editors of Spanish have long needed an authoritative guide to written language usage, similar to The MLA Style Manual and The Chicago Manual of Style. And here it is! This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication.The book covers these major areas:Language basics: capitalization, word division, spelling, and punctuation ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Latin American Literature (Routledge Revivals)

    by David William Foster ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987 (this second edition in 1992), the Handbook of Latin American Literature offers readers the opportunity to explore this literary history in the English Language and constitutes an ideological approach to Latin American Literature. It provides both concise information concerning particular authors, works, and literary traditions of Latin America as well as comprehensive ... Read more

    $198.99 CAD

  • Glimpses of Phoenix

    The Desert Metropolis in Written and Visual Media

    by David William Foster ...
    Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday. Also that Phoenix, the Arizona state capital, is a "clean" city (despite a past of police corruption and social oppression). The "real" Phoenix, easygoing, sun-drenched, a place of ever-expanding development and economic growth, guarantees, it is said, an enviable lifestyle, low ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Sexual Textualities

    Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing

    by David William Foster ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Since the 1991 publication of his groundbreaking book Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing, David William Foster has proposed a series of theoretical and critical principles for the analysis of Latin American culture from the perspectives of the queer. This book continues that project with a queer reading of literary and cultural aspects of Latin American texts.Moving beyond its ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD