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“jens andermann”

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  • Changes in the Landscape

    Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

    by Jens Andermann, Ronald Briggs, Gisela Heffes, Aarti S. Madan, Vanesa Miseres, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Jorge Quintana Navarrete, Catalina Rodríguez, Emmanuel A Velayos Larrabure, Lesley Wylie ...
    Changes in the Landscape is a collection of timely essays that bring the methodologies and commitments of ecocriticism to bear on the study of Latin American literature and cultural production. The book’s eleven chapters, written by some of the leading voices in the field, invite readers to consider how the relationship between humans and nonhuman nature was fundamentally transformed during a ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Latin American Cultural Studies: A Reader

    Edited by Jens Andermann, Ben Bollig, Lorraine Leu, Daniel Mosquera, Rory O'Bryen, David Wood ...
    Featuring twenty-five key essays from the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (Traves/sia), this book surveys the most influential themes and concepts, as well as scouring some of the polemics and controversies, which have marked the field over the last quarter of a century since the Journal's foundation in 1992.Emerging at a moment of crisis of revolutionary narratives, and at the onset of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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    “If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.” That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States.Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a ... Read more

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  • A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity

    Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism

    by Sherina Feliciano-Santos ...
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    A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, the book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists as well as the alternative fonts of authority they draw on to ... Read more

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  • Planet/Cuba

    Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island

    by Rachel Price ...
    Transformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel eraCuba has been in a state of massive transformation over the past decade, with its historic resumption of diplomatic relations with the United States only the latest development. While the political leadership has changed direction, other forces have taken hold. The environment is under threat, and the culture feels the ... Read more

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  • A Culture of Stone

    Inka Perspectives on Rock

    by Carolyn Dean ...
    A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and played a ... Read more

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  • Acoustic Colonialism

    Acts of Mapuche Interference

    by Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante ...
    Series series Dissident Acts
    In Acoustic Colonialism, Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production over the last two centuries. Cárcamo-Huechante theorizes sound as a territory of racial, patriarchal, and colonial hegemony as well as of Mapuche struggle, agency, and response to what he calls "acoustic colonialism." From the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Chilean ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America

    Ecocritical Perspectives on Art, Film, and Literature

    by Juanita C. Aristizábal, Ana Avalos, Mirian Carballo, Ida Day, Diana Dodson Lee, Simão Farias Almeida, Juan Carlos Galeano, Adrian Kane, Jeremy Larochelle, Diego Mejia-Prado, Kerstin Oloff, Abigail Pérez Aguilera, Marcela Reales, Herman Vladimir Ruíz Abecasis, María Victoria Sanchez, Lesley Wylie, Sharae Deckard ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Worldwide environmental crisis has become increasingly visible over the last few decades as the full scope of anthropogenic climate change manifests itself and large-scale natural resource extraction has expanded into formerly remote areas that seemed beyond the reach of industrialization. Scientists and popular culture alike have turned to the term "Anthropocene" to capture the global scale of ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Cosmolectics

    Kab'awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures

    by Gloria Elizabeth Chacón ...
    Series series Critical Indigeneities
    Latin America’s Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters. Gloria E. Chacón considers the growing number of contemporary Indigenous writers who turn to Maya and Zapotec languages alongside Spanish translations of their work to challenge ... Read more

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  • Colonial Phantoms

    Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present

    by Dixa Ramírez ...
    Series Book 28 - Nation of Nations
    Winner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies AssociationWinner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies AssociationHighlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican peopleUsing a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghosted ... Read more

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  • Non-literary Fiction

    Art of the Americas under Neoliberalism

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    Explores a new form of fiction that emerged in late-twentieth-century visual art across the Americas.With Non-literary Fiction, Esther Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across the Americas has reacted to the rising tide of neoliberal regimes, focusing on the crucial role of fiction in daily politics. Gabara argues that these fictions depart from familiar literary narrative structures ... Read more

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  • Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing

    Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics

    Edited by Estrella Cibreiro, Francisca López ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and purposeful manner. The contributors analyze texts pertaining to all literary genres, examining a myriad of ... Read more

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