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  • Small Animal Orthopaedics. The Hindlimb

    by Ignacio Calvo, Felipe de Vicente, Miguel Ángel Solano ...
    This book describes, with the help of high-quality images, the different surgical techniques used to treat the main orthopaedic conditions affecting the hindlimbs in cats and dogs. Drawing from their experience, the authors provide practical information on how to plan and perform these surgical procedures and how to manage patients postoperatively. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Mapping Diversity in Latin America

    Race and Ethnicity from Colonial Times to the Present

    by Bárbara I. Abadía-Rexach, Gonzalo Aguiar Malosetti, Patricia Arroyo Calderón, Amber Brian, Ariel Camejo, Marta Elena Casaús Arzú, Mónica Díaz, Christian Elguera, Tracy Devine Guzmán, Ruth Hill, Ariana Huberman, Stephanie Kirk, Agustín Laó-Montes, Ignacio López-Calvo, Mariselle Meléndez, Bahia M. Munem, Iván Fernando Rodrigo-Mendizábal, Carlos Alberto Valderrama Rentería, Marcel Velázquez Castro, Jorge Daniel Vásquez ...
    Mapping Diversity in Latin America offers ample critical coverage of recent approaches to the historical study of race and ethnicity in Latin America since the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese colonizers to the present. Bringing together the work of leading scholars, this volume presents readers with a thorough and updated examination of the formation and evolution of ideas surrounding race and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Los Angeles

    A Literary History

    Edited by Michael Docherty, Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    No city occupies as many paradoxical positions in the popular imagination as Los Angeles. It is the new frontier and the end of the trail; it is American Eden and Babylon by the Pacific; it is by turns celebrated and condemned for its diversity; it is the city of perpetual renewal and the city of imminent apocalypse. This collection reveals LA in all its contradictions by documenting a literary ... Read more

    $131.99 USD

  • Dragons in the Land of the Condor

    Writing Tusán in Peru

    by Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in the Land of the Condor Ignacio López-Calvo studies the influence of a Chinese ethnic background in the writing of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sino-Peruvian authors.While authors like Siu Kam Wen and Julia Wong often rely on their Chinese cultural heritage for inspiration, many others, like Pedro Zulen, ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Affinity of the Eye

    Writing Nikkei in Peru

    by Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    In The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru, Ignacio López-Calvo rises above the political emergence of the Fujimori phenomenon and uses politics and literature to provide one of the first comprehensive looks at how the Japanese assimilated and inserted themselves into Peruvian culture. Through contemporary writers’ testimonies, essays, fiction, and poetry, López-Calvo constructs an account ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Mexican Transpacific

    Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance

    by Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    Series series Critical Mexican Studies
    The Mexican Transpacific considers the influence of a Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the cultural production of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican authors, performers, and visual artists. Despite Japanese Mexicans’ unquestionable influence on Mexico’s history and culture and the historical studies recently published on this Nikkei community, the study of its ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Imagining Asia in the Americas

    by Debbie Lee-DiStefano, Kathleen López, Martin A. Tsang, Junyoung Verónica Kim, Adrian H. Hearn, José Amador, Julia Katz, Ann Kaneko, Roshni Rustomji-Kerns0, Ignacio López-Calvo1 ...
    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    For centuries, Asian immigrants have been making vital contributions to the cultures of North and South America. Yet in many of these countries, Asians are commonly viewed as undifferentiated racial “others,” lumped together as chinos regardless of whether they have Chinese ancestry. How might this struggle for recognition in their adopted homelands affect the ways that Asians in the Americas ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Written in Exile

    Chilean Fiction From 1973-Present

    by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo ...
    Series series Latin American Studies
    On September 11, 1973, Chile's General Pinochet led a quick and brutal military coup ousting the Allende government. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo argues that the rise of the Pinochet dictatorship and the subsequent imprisonment of any Allende sympathizers shaped Chilean narrative into two structural forms: liberationist narrative--cathartic, journalistic testimonies that provide models for revolutionary ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Japanese Brazilian Saudades

    Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production

    by Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    Series series Nikkei in the Americas
    Japanese Brazilian Saudades explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry. Ignacio López-Calvo uses books and films by twentieth-century Nikkei authors as case studies to redefine the ideas of Brazilianness and Japaneseness from both a national and a transnational perspective. The result suggests an alternative ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Pablo Neruda in Context

    Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Pablo Neruda in Context includes forty-two essays by some of the main experts on Pablo Neruda's oeuvre that focus on how his places of residence and travel (Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France, Asia), the landmark event of the Cold War, as well as literary and political influences affected his poetic evolution. It also considers the other genres of his writing, including memoirs, letters, translation ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Latinx Writing Los Angeles

    Nonfiction Dispatches from a Decolonial Rebellion

    Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo, Victor Valle ...
    2020 International Latino Book Awards Honorable Mention in Best Nonfiction (Multi-Author)Latinx Writing Los Angeles offers a critical anthology of Los Angeles’s most significant English-language and Spanish-language (in translation) nonfiction writing from the city’s inception to the present. Contemporary Latinx authors, including three Pulitzer Prize winners and writers such as Harry Gamboa Jr., ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement

    Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo, Marjorie Agosin ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture
    Every American is a descendant of either a Native American, and enslaved person, an immigrant, or a refugee. This book is devoted to the fourth category. The essays in this volume will study the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. This volume is not only ... Read more

    $35.99 USD