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Culture and Revolution
Violence, Memory, and the Making of Modern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In the twenty years of postrevolutionary rule in Mexico, the war remained fresh in the minds of those who participated in it, while the enigmas of the revolution remained obscured. Demonstrating how textuality helped to define the revolution, Culture and Revolution examines dozens of seemingly ahistorical...
Dude Lit
Mexican Men Writing and Performing Competence, 1955–2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
How did men become the stars of the Mexican intellectual scene? Dude Lit examines the tricks of the trade and reveals that sometimes literary genius rests on privileges that men extend one another and that women permit.
The makings of the “best” writers have to do with superficial aspects,...
Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution
Rebels in the Literary Imagination of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The 1910 Mexican Revolution saw Francisco "Pancho" Villa grow from social bandit to famed revolutionary leader. Although his rise to national prominence was short-lived, he and his followers (the villistas) inspired deep feelings of pride and power amongst the rural poor. After the Revolution...
The Learned Ones
Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
They were the healers, teachers, and writers, the “wise ones” of Nahuatl-speaking cultures in Mexico, remembered in painted codices and early colonial manuscripts of Mesoamerica as the guardians of knowledge. Yet they very often seem bound to an unrecoverable past, as stereotypes prevent some...
by Naomi Lindstrom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Literature in Latin America has long been a vehicle for debates over the interpretation of social history, cultural identity, and artistic independence. Indeed, Latin American literature has gained international respect for its ability to present social criticism through works of imaginative creation.In...
Imperial Eyes
Travel Writing and Transculturation
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
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.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years. The Brazilian je ne sais quoi has captivated the French from their first encounter, and the ingenuity à francesa of French artistic and scholarly movements has intrigued Brazilians...
Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways
Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
“We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America’s institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This volume sheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves deep into the borderlands, an uncharted in-between space located outside fixed geographic, cultural, and ideological bounds. Prevalent throughout many interviews...
Chimeras of Form
Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914–2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
In the years following World War I, the “international” emerged as a distinct scale of political and cultural focus. Internationalisms proliferated in kind as writers and thinkers sought to imagine modes of cooperation that would balance transnational solidarities with national sovereignty. While...
Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean
Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations. Focusing on the Caribbean double-diaspora, Pulitano offers a close-reading...
Bodies and Bones
Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
In Bodies and Bones, Tanya Shields argues that a repeated engagement with the Caribbean’s iconic and historic touchstones offers a new sense of (inter)national belonging that brings an alternative and dynamic vision to the gendered legacy of brutality against black bodies, flesh, and bone. Using...
by Anne Fountain
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
"Essential reading for those who increasingly appreciate the enormous importance of Martí as one of the nineteenth century's most influential and most original thinkers."--John Kirk, coeditor of Redefining Cuban Foreign Policy "Fountain's wide-ranging, keen-eyed, and meticulously researched...