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    Hour the Lighthouse Turned Twice, The

    by ADRIAN GOMEZ ...
    Narrated by Joanna Margaret ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 21 min

    Mira and Theo are trapped inside an impossible hour. No matter what they say, avoid, or try to repair, the café clock returns to 5:59 and forces them back into the same conversation.At first, the repetition feels like punishment. Mira protects herself with humor and distance. Theo responds by trying to fix every problem before anyone asks him to. But the hour refuses to move forward until both of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Film Archipelago

    Islands in Latin American Cinema

    Edited by Antonio Gómez, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián ...
    Series series World Cinema
    How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising 15 essays and a critical introduction, The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema addresses this question by examining a series of intersections between insular spaces and filmmaking in Latin America. The volume brings together international scholars and filmmakers to consider a diverse ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    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

    $23.99 USD

  • Viva la historieta

    Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization

    by Bruce Campbell ...
    ¡Viva la historieta! critically examines the participation of Mexican comic books in the continuing debate over the character and consequences of globalization in Mexico. The focus of the book is on graphic narratives produced by and for Mexicans in the period following the 1994 implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an economic accord that institutionalized the free ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Bronze Screen

    Chicana and Chicano Film Culture

    by Rosa Linda Fregoso ...
    Explores Chicana and Chicano popular culture through contemporary representations in both Hollywood commercial and independent cinema.Rosa Linda Fregoso’s The Bronze Screen opens the way for international debate on the new critical field of Chicano/a cinema. Fregoso provides an incisive articulation of the ways in which narrative codes in film can telescope complex versions of Mexican and American ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Buenas Noches, American Culture

    Latina/o Aesthetics of Night

    by María DeGuzmán ...
    Often treated like night itself—both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized—Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and the US, calling into question night's effect on the formation of identity for Latina/os in and outside of ... Read more

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  • Planetary Longings

    by Mary Louise Pratt ...
    Series series Dissident Acts
    In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity in their pre- and postmillennial forms, Pratt reflects on the crisis of futurity that accompanies the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Urban Latin America

    Images, Words, Flows and the Built Environment

    Edited by Bianca Freire-Medeiros, Julia O'Donnell ...
    Series series Architext
    Urban Latin America explores the relationship between images, words and the built environment using an engaging variety of methods and sources, with a timely emphasis on comparative studies. The book brings together scholars with various disciplinary backgrounds and theoretical affiliations who critically approach urban experiences through visual accounts, texts and architectural elements. The ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Tijuana Dreaming

    Life and Art at the Global Border

    Edited by Josh Kun, Fiamma Montezemolo ...
    Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico. With many pieces translated from Spanish for the first time, the anthology features contributions by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators, and photographers from Tijuana and greater Mexico. They explore urban planning in light of Tijuana ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Latin American Cinema

    Breaking into the Global Market

    Edited by Deborah Shaw ...
    This engaging book explores some of the most significant films to emerge from Latin America since 2000, an extraordinary period of international recognition for the region's cinema. Each chapter assesses an individual film, with some contributors considering the reasons for the unprecedented commercial and critical successes of movies such as City of God, The Motorcycle Diaries, Y tu mamá también, ... Read more

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  • Le Maya Q'atzij/Our Maya Word

    Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala

    by Emil’ Keme ...
    Series series Indigenous Americas
    Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regenerationIn 1954, Guatemala suffered a coup d’etat, resulting in a decades-long civil war. During this period, Indigenous Mayans were subject to displacement, disappearance, and extrajudicial killing. Within the context of the armed conflict and the postwar period in ... Read more

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  • Barrio-Logos

    Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture

    by Raúl Homero Villa ...
    Series series CMAS History, Culture, and Society Series
    Struggles over space and resistance to geographic displacement gave birth to much of Chicano history and culture. In this pathfinding book, Raúl Villa explores how California Chicano/a activists, journalists, writers, artists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and massive freeway development and to create and defend a ... Read more

    $27.99 USD