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“raquel kennon”

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  • Afrodiasporic Forms

    Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora

    by Raquel Kennon ...
    Afrodiasporic Forms explores the epistemological possibilities of the “Black world” paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its constitutive African diasporas across multiple poetic, visual, and cultural permutations. Examining the transatlantic slave trade and modern racial slavery, Raquel Kennon challenges the US-centric focus of slavery studies and draws on ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Critical Dimensions of African Studies

    Re-Membering Africa

    by Suzanne Scheld, Tom Spencer-Walters, Senait Admassu, Edwin Aimufua, Raquel Kennon, Sheba Lo, Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha, Kevin Zemlicka, Rodney B. Hume-Dawson0, Renee M. Moreno1, Daphne W. Ntiri2, Daniel N. Posner3, W. Gabriel Selassie I4, Selase W. Williams5, Ebenezer "KofI" Peprah6, Jennifer L. De Maio7 ...
    This book brings together top researchers, thinkers, and activists from across disciplines to reflect on the study of Africa. Critical Dimensions of African Studies: Re-Membering Africa emphasizes a critique of power structures, the promotion of human liberation, a commitment to social justice and transformation, and critical reflection on the politics of the production and circulation of ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

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    Rebel Dance, Renegade Stanceshows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance. Umi Vaughan, an African American anthropologist, musician, dancer, and photographer "plantao" in Cuba—planted, living like a ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Translation and Identity in the Americas

    New Directions in Translation Theory

    by Edwin Gentzler ...
    Translation is a highly contested site in the Americas where different groups, often with competing literary or political interests, vie for space and approval. In its survey of these multiple and competing groups and its study of the geographic, socio-political and cultural aspects of translation, Edwin Gentzler’s book demonstrates that the Americas are a fruitful terrain for the field of ... Read more

    $94.99 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 Dialectics of Our America

    Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History

    by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, José David Saldívar ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Joining the current debates in American literary history, José David Saldívar offers a challenging new perspective on what constitutes not only the canon in American literature, but also the notion of America itself. His aim is the articulation of a fresh, transgeographical conception of American culture, one more responsive to the geographical ties and political crosscurrents of the hemisphere ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Jorge Amado

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Earl Fitz, Keith Brower, Enrique Martinez-Vidal ...
    Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil, this volume provides an introduction and chronology to Amado's life, followed by a comprehensive survey of his major works by some of the world's leading ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Slavery Unseen

    Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History

    by Lamonte Aidoo ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition trial documents to travel accounts and literature, Aidoo demonstrates how interracial and same-sex sexual violence operated as a key ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature

    Edited by Antonio D. Tillis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
    After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction to the literary worlds and perceptions of national culture and identity of authors from Spanish ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction

    by Rachel Haywood Ferreira ...
    Series series Early Classics of Science Fiction
    Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction has always been a global genre. She traces how and why the genre quickly reached Latin America and analyzes how writers in Argentina, Brazil, and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity

    by Edna M. Rodríguez-Plate ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    Lydia Cabrera (1900–1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, who initiated the study of Afro-Cubans and the concept of transculturation. Here, Edna ... Read more

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  • Archives of Dispossession

    Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848–1960

    by Karen R. Roybal ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    One method of American territory expansion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands was the denial of property rights to Mexican landowners, which led to dispossession. Many historical accounts overlook this colonial impact on Indigenous and Mexican peoples, and existing studies that do tackle this subject tend to privilege the male experience. Here, Karen R. Roybal recenters the focus of dispossession on ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD