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  • Thresholds of Illiteracy

    Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance

    by Abraham Acosta ...
    Series series Just Ideas
    Thresholds of Illiteracy reevaluates Latin American theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the concept of “illiteracy” as a new critical approach to understanding scenes or moments of social antagonism. “Illiteracy,” Acosta claims, can offer us a way of talking about what cannot be subsumed within prevailing modes of reading, such as the opposition between writing and orality, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination

    Edited by Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, José David Saldívar ...
    The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Díaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Díaz's decolonial imagination and his radically re-envisioned world, the contributors show how his aesthetic ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • From the Edge

    Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print

    by Allison E. Fagan ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identities, and sometimes pushed to the edge by authorities who seek to restrict their freedom. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, the books themselves have occupied similarly precarious positions, as Chicana/o literature has struggled for economic ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Gente Decente

    A Borderlands Response to the Rhetoric of Dominance

    by Leticia Magda Garza-Falcón ...
    In his books The Great Plains, The Great Frontier, and The Texas Rangers, historian Walter Prescott Webb created an enduring image of fearless, white, Anglo male settlers and lawmen bringing civilization to an American Southwest plagued with "savage" Indians and Mexicans. So popular was Webb's vision that it influenced generations of historians and artists in all media and effectively silenced the ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Borges and Plato: A Game with Shifting Mirrors

    by Shlomy Mualem ...
    Series Book 54 - Ediciones de Iberoamericana
    Jorge Luis Borges´ philosophical fiction and Plato´s intellectual dramas are perhaps the most intricate records in Western history of attempts to artfully interweave mythos and logos, argumentation and narrative, thought and imagination. Their juxtaposition, presented in the following study, aims at demonstrating the complex connections between classical and modern literature and thought. The ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poetics of Hispanism

    Edited by Cathy L. Jrade ...
    Series Book 65 - Ediciones de Iberoamericana
    The authors of this book participated in two interdependent colloquia that aimed to answer a two-fold question, namely, 'what is Hispanic poetry's destiny today and what part in its fate do critics play?' As a result Poetics of Hispanism covers a broad array of subjects: the relation of form to issues of context, values, and influence; alterity as the ground on which the voice realizes the need to ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Forked Juniper

    Critical Perspectives on Rudolfo Anaya

    Edited by Roberto Cantú ...
    Series series Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Américas Series
    Widely acclaimed as the founder of Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya is one of America’s most compelling and prolific authors. A recipient of a National Humanities Medal and best known for his debut novel, Bless Me, Ultima, his writings span multiple genres, from novels and essays to plays, poems, and children’s stories. Despite his prominence, critical studies of Anaya’s writings have appeared ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Mobility and Modernity

    Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination

    by Robert D. Aguirre ...
    Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination rewrites the history of the Panama Canal, assessing for the first time the literary culture of the preceding decades. In this period, U.S. and British writers and visual artists developed sophisticated languages of mobility, time, and speed to cast the isthmus as an in-between place, a point of connection to more ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United States

    by Donna L. Gilton ...
    This book describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children's literature in the U.S., as well as related materials published elsewhere. It relates in great detail the people, businesses, organizations, and institutions that create, disseminate, promote, critique, and collect these materials. Author Donna Gilton gives a detailed history of U.S. multicultural and ethnic ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture

    by Ellie D. Hernández ...
    Series series Chicana Matters
    In recent decades, Chicana/o literary and cultural productions have dramatically shifted from a nationalist movement that emphasized unity to one that openly celebrates diverse experiences. Charting this transformation, Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture looks to the late 1970s, during a resurgence of global culture, as a crucial turning point whose reverberations in twenty-first ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • 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

    $18.99 USD

  • Shakin' Up Race and Gender

    Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995)

    by Marta E. Sánchez ...
    Series series Chicana Matters
    The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in the United States. In the years since then, new generations have asked new questions to cast light on this watershed era. No longer is it productive to consider only the differences between ethnic groups; we must also study them in relation to one another and to U.S. mainstream ... Read more

    $23.79 USD