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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “fernando degiovanni”
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  • Vernacular Latin Americanisms

    War, the Market, and the Making of a Discipline

    by Fernando Degiovanni ...
    Series series Illuminations
    In Vernacular Latin Americanisms, Fernando Degiovanni offers a long-view perspective on the intense debates that shaped Latin American studies and still inform their function in the globalized and neoliberal university of today. By doing so he provides a reevaluation of a field whose epistemological and political status has obsessed its participants up until the present. The book focuses on the ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Latin American Literature in Transition 1870–1930

    Edited by Fernando Degiovanni, Javier Uriarte ...
    Series series Latin American Literature in Transition
    Latin American Literature in Transition 1870-1930 examines how the circulation of goods, people, and ideas permeated every aspect of the continent's cultural production at the end of the nineteenth century. It analyzes the ways in which rapidly transforming technological and labour conditions contributed to forging new intellectual networks, exploring innovative forms of knowledge, and reimagining ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

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  • Uncivil Wars

    Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory

    by Sandra Messinger Cypess ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender.While Paz’s privileged, prize ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Borders of Dominicanidad

    Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction

    by Lorgia García Peña ...
    In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and Dominicans living abroad have contested these dominant narratives and their violent, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race

    The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    by Marilyn Grace Miller ...
    Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and racial mixtures known collectively as mestizaje. These mixtures reflect the influences of indigenous peoples from Latin America, Europeans, and Africans, and spawn a fascinating and often volatile blend of cultural practices and products. Yet no scholarly study to date has provided an articulate context for fully ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The New Cultural History of Peronism

    Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Argentina

    by Natalia Milanesio ...
    In nearly every account of modern Argentine history, the first Peronist regime (1946–55) emerges as the critical juncture. Appealing to growing masses of industrial workers, Juan Perón built a powerful populist movement that transformed economic and political structures, promulgated new conceptions and representations of the nation, and deeply polarized the Argentine populace. Yet until now, most ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions

    by John Beverley, Marc Zimmerman ...
    Series series LLILAS New Interpretations of Latin America Series
    “This book began in what seemed like a counterfactual intuition . . . that what had been happening in Nicaraguan poetry was essential to the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution,” write John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman. “In our own postmodern North American culture, we are long past thinking of literature as mattering much at all in the ‘real’ world, so how could this be?” This study sets out to ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture

    Edited by John King ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The term Latin America refers to the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking states created in the early 1820s following the wars of independence, states that differed enormously in geographical and demographical scale, ethnic composition and economic resources, yet shared distinct historical and cultural traits. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts explore the unity and diversity of the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Dream Nation

    Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence

    by María Acosta Cruz ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have been defining features of Puerto Rican literature and culture. In the provocative new book Dream Nation, María Acosta Cruz investigates the roots and effects of this profound disconnect between cultural fantasy and political reality ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Hispanic Immigrant Literature

    El Sueño del Retorno

    by Nicolás Kanellos ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in the United States. Immigrant literature uses predominantly the language of the homeland; it serves a ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Havana beyond the Ruins

    Cultural Mappings after 1989

    Edited by Anke Birkenmaier, Esther Whitfield ...
    In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet subsidies of Cuba ceased, and the Cuban state has re-imagined Havana as a destination for international tourists and business ventures. Cuba’s capital has experienced little construction since the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD