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Border Hispanisms eBook Series

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  • Delirious Consumption

    Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil

    by Sergio Delgado Moya ...
    Series series Border Hispanisms
    In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass consumption on an unprecedented scale, giving rise to the consumer society that exists today. Many avant-garde artists explored the nexus between consumption and aesthetics, questioning how consumerism affects how we perceive the world, place ourselves in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Imperial Eyes

    Travel Writing and Transculturation

    by Mary Louise Pratt ...
    Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Contracultura

    Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil

    by Christopher Dunn ...
    Christopher Dunn’s history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that developed alongside the ascent of hardline forces within the regime in the late 1960s. Focusing on ... Read more

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  • The Art of Transition

    Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis

    by Francine Masiello, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what is real, Francine Masiello interprets the culture of this period as an art of transition, referring ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel

    Edited by Efraín Kristal ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Worlds of Langston Hughes

    Modernism and Translation in the Americas

    by Vera M. Kutzinski ...
    The poet Langston Hughes was a tireless world traveler and a prolific translator, editor, and marketer. Translations of his own writings traveled even more widely than he did, earning him adulation throughout Europe, Asia, and especially the Americas. In The Worlds of Langston Hughes, Vera Kutzinski contends that, for writers who are part of the African diaspora, translation is more than just a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Wolf Tracks

    Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama

    by Peter Szok ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, and landscapes appear in cantinas, barbershops, and restaurants. The red devil buses are popular art's most visible manifestation. The old school buses are imported from the United States and provide ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Contemporary Mexican Women Writers

    Five Voices

    by Gabriella de Beer ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Mexican women writers moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and 1980s are Maria Luisa Puga, Silvia Molina, Brianda Domecq, Carmen Boullosa, and Angeles Mastretta. Sharing a range of affinities while maintaining distinctive voices and outlooks, these are the women whom Gabriella de Beer has chosen to profile in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Cubanisms

    A Look at Cuba through Art and Words

    by Pedro Menocal ...
    #1 Amazon Best Seller! ─ Cubanisms ─ The evolution of Cuban slang, Spanish slang, and SpanglishThe history of Spanish slang: Spanish is a unique language. From Argentina to Spain, accents, meanings, connotations and more get lost between borders. Cubanisms by Pedro García-Menocal details the diverse history of the Spanish language as it evolved in the Lost City.The humor of Spanish slang: With ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Citizenship Under Pressure

    The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture

    by Rachel L. Mordecai ...
    This is the first book-length study of the interaction of culture, politics and society in Jamaica's formative postcolonial moment, the years between 1972 and 1980. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry

    Edited by Stephen M. Hart ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of Latin American poetry and includes separate chapters on Colonial poetry, Romanticism/modernism, the avant-garde, conversational ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Pak's Britannica: Articles by and Interviews with David Dabydeen

    by Lynne Macedo ...
    This is Dabydeen's academic works which comprises a series of interviews. In it he tackles the controversial aspects of race, ethnicity and "belonging". ... Read more

    $8.99 USD