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Mount Everest 1938
Whether these mountains are climbed or not, smaller expeditions are a step in the right direction
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
‘Whether these mountains are climbed or not, smaller expeditions are a step in the right direction.’
It’s 1938, the British have thrown everything they’ve got at Everest but they’ve still not reached the summit. War in Europe seems inevitable; the Empire is shrinking. Still reeling...
Intimate Activism
The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas. The law was passed shortly after the Sandinistas lost power in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, was repealed in 2007. In this vivid ethnography, Cymene...
A Hero's Curse
The Perpetual Liberation of Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
A Hero's Curse is the story of the modern Venezuelans whose lives have taken shape in the shadow of Simón Bolívar and his most passionate disciple, Comandante Hugo Chávez. For nearly two hundred years Venezuela's political leaders have evoked the legacy of their liberator, Bolívar, to stir popular...
by Ben Etherington
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
This book fundamentally rethinks a pervasive and controversial concept in literary criticism and the history of ideas. Primitivism has long been accepted as a transhistorical tendency of the "civilized" to idealize that primitive condition against which they define themselves. In the modern...
Made of Shores
Judeo-Argentinean Fiction Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Made of Shores places Jewish Argentinean fiction within the context of Latin American literature and Judaic Studies. It offers the reader to participate actively in the scholarly debates on issues of memory and identity, and the different representations of Jewishness in Latin America. By reviewing...
The Scroll and the Cross
1,000 Years of Jewish-Hispanic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This groundbreaking, eclectic book of readings, edited by Ilan Stavans, whom The Washington Post described as "one of our foremost cultural critics," offers a sideboard of the ups and downs of that partnership. It includes...
Avenues of Translation
The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed,...
Syncing the Americas
José Martí and the Shaping of National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The essays in this collection reflect two of Martí’s key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in New York, view and read his North American neighbors from a sociocultural, political and literary perspective? Second, how did his perception of the...
Revolution in the Countryside
Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Although most discussions of the Guatemalan "revolution" of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, Revolution in the Countryside presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade. Jim Handy examines the rural poor, both Maya and Ladino, as key players who had a...
Guaman Poma
Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru: Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva cornica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of Spain about the evils of colonialism and the need...
The Cross-Dressed Caribbean
Writing, Politics, Sexualities
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Studies of sexuality in Caribbean culture are on the rise, focusing mainly on homosexuality and homophobia or on regional manifestations of normative and nonnormative sexualities. The Cross-Dressed Caribbean extends this exploration by using the trope of transvestism not only to analyze texts and...
Versos Sencillos
A Dual-Language Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
In 1890, the great Cuban revolutionary leader José Martí wrote his most famous poetry, Versos Sencillos, in a small town called Haines Falls in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Sincere and intensely personal in tone, these verses form a unique autobiographical expression yet have world-wide appeal....
Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic
Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
The essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying the politics and textualities of Southern Europe, North America, and Latin America across languages, cultures, and periods. Historically grounded while offering new theoretical approaches,...
by Amber Brian
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Honorable Mention, 2016
Born between 1568 and 1580, Alva Ixtlilxochitl was a direct descendant of Ixtlilxochitl I and Ixtlilxochitl II, who had been rulers of Texcoco, one of the major city-states in pre-Conquest Mesoamerica. After...