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  • Moving Beyond Borders

    Julian Samora and the Establishment of Latino Studies

    by Alberto Lopez Pulido, Alberto Lopez Pulido, Barbara Driscoll de Alvarado, Carmen Samora, Teresita E Aguilar, Jorge A Bustamante, Gilberto Cárdenas, Miguel A Carranza0, Frank M Castillo1, Anthony J Cortese2, Lydia Espinosa Crafton3, Herman Gallegos4, Phillip Gallegos5, José R Hinojosa6, Delfina Landeros7, Paul López8, Sergio X Madrigal9, Ken Martínez0, Vilma Martínez1, Alberto Mata2, Amelia M Muñoz3, Richard A Navarro4, Jesus "Chuy" Negrete5, Julie Leininger Pycior6, Olga Villa Parra7, Ricardo Parra8, Victor Rios9, Marcos Ronquillo0, Rene Rosenbaum1, Rudy Sandoval2, Alfredo Rodriguez Santos3, Ciro Sepulveda4 ...
    Series series Latinos in Chicago and Midwest
    Moving Beyond Borders examines the life and accomplishments of Julian Samora, the first Mexican American sociologist in the United States and the founding father of the discipline of Latino studies. Detailing his distinguished career at the University of Notre Dame from 1959 to 1984, the book documents the history of the Mexican American Graduate Studies program that Samora established at Notre ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Collecting from the Margins

    Material Culture in a Latin American Context

    by María Mercedes Andrade, Kelly Austin, Shelley Garrigan, Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, Fernando Pérez, Andrew Reynolds, Javier Uriarte, Olga Vilella ...
    From the cabinets of wonderof the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and institutional, has been instrumental in the consolidation of modern notions of the individual and of the nation, and numerous studies have discussed its complex ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts

    by Tania Gómez, Patricia Bolaños-Fabres, Emilia Barbosa, Olga Colbert, Christina Karageorgou-Bastea, Anca Koczkas, Christina Mougoyanni Hennessy, Marcela T. Garcés0, Silvia M. Roca-Martínez1, Elizabeth G. Rivero2 ...
    Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts provides an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective on gender within Hispanic film and literature. The contributors analyze the relationship between the historical and social contexts of various Hispanic countries—including Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Uruguay—and the effects of their ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Generating Transworld Pedagogy

    Reimagining La Clase Mágica

    by Carmen Martínez-Roldán, Beatriz Macías Gómez-Estern, Zayoni Torres, Kris D. Gutiérrez, Henri Muñoz, Theresa Lara DeHoyos, Adriana S. García, Armando Garza, Margarita Machado-Casas, Timothy T. Yuen, Macneil Shonle, Kimberley Kennedy, Lorena Claeys, Patricia Sánchez, Lisa Santillán, Lena Licón Khisty, Craig Willey, Patricia López, Mayra Martínez Avidad, Maria Arreguín-Anderson, Angela Valenzuela, Iliana Alanís, Lucila D. Ek, Carlos A. LópezLeiva ...
    Generating Transworld Pedagogy: Reimagining La Clase Mágica lays the foundation for addressing one of the greatest challenges in the 21st century: meeting the educational needs of a diverse society living in a complex, technology-driven world. It extends bilingual and bicultural transformative critical pedagogy by appropriating the use of mobile devices and digital tools within an after-school ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Out of Context

    Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges

    by Daniel Balderston ...
    In Jorge Luis Borges's finely wrought, fantastic stories, so filigreed with strange allusions, critics have consistently found little to relate to the external world, to history--in short, to reality. Out of Context corrects this shortsighted view and reveals the very real basis of the Argentine master's purported "irreality." By providing the historical context for some of the writer's best-loved ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • What's a Black Critic to Do II

    by Donna Bailey Nurse ...
    In Whats a Black Critic to Do II, literary critic Donna Bailey Nurse once again gathers together profiles, reviews, interviews, and essays that examine race, culture, and multiculturalism through the lens of literature. This collection, featuring well-known writers such as Lawrence Hill, Afua Cooper, Christopher Paul Curtis, Natasha Trethewey, Toni Morrison, David Chariandy, Joseph Boyden, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Calypso Jews

    Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination

    by Sarah Phillips Casteel ...
    Series series Literature Now
    In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these historical migrations through the lens of postwar Caribbean fiction and poetry, Sarah Phillips Casteel presents the first major study of representations ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • La Malinche in Mexican Literature

    From History to Myth

    by Sandra Messinger Cypess ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Of all the historical characters known from the time of the Spanish conquest of the New World, none has proved more pervasive or controversial than that of the Indian interpreter, guide, mistress, and confidante of Hernán Cortés, Doña Marina—La Malinche—Malintzin. The mother of Cortés's son, she becomes not only the mother of the mestizo but also the Mexican Eve, the symbol of national betrayal ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Pirate Novels

    Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America

    by Nina Gerassi-Navarro ...
    In Pirate Novels Nina Gerassi-Navarro examines an overlooked genre to reveal how history and fiction blend to address important isuses of nation building in nineteenth-century Spanish America. In the figure of the pirate, bold and heroic to some, cruel and criminal to others, she reveals an almost ideal character that came to embody the spirit of emerging nationhood and the violence associated ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Handbook of Latin American Literature (Routledge Revivals)

    by David William Foster ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987 (this second edition in 1992), the Handbook of Latin American Literature offers readers the opportunity to explore this literary history in the English Language and constitutes an ideological approach to Latin American Literature. It provides both concise information concerning particular authors, works, and literary traditions of Latin America as well as comprehensive ... Read more

    $140.99 USD

  • Signs of Borges

    by Sylvia Molloy ...
    Translated by Oscar Montero ...
    Series series Post-contemporary interventions
    Available for the first time in English, Signs of Borges is widely regarded as the best single book on the work of Jorge Luis Borges. With a critical sensibility informed by Barthes, Lacan, Foucault, Blanchot, and the entire body of Borges scholarship, Sylvia Molloy explores the problem of meaning in Borges's work by remaining true to the uncanniness that is its foundation.Borges's sustained ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Cuba and the Tempest

    Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora

    by Eduardo González ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established himself in London; Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2005), who settled in the United States; and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD