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Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce Among the Q’eqchi’ Maya Lowlanders
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q'eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world - repeated displacement from their lands. Liza Grandia uses the tools of ethnography, history, cartography, and ecology to explore...
Securing the City
Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America’s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition from a state-centric economy to the global free market, Guatemala’s neoliberal moment...
Science Fiction in Argentina
Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
It has become something of a critical commonplace to claim that science fiction does not actually exist in Argentina. This book puts that claim to rest by identifying and analyzing a rich body of work that fits squarely in the genre. Joanna Page explores a range of texts stretching from 1875 to the...
Nicaragua Travel Guide
Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
The Republic of Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America and one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in the Americas. Once ravaged by political turmoil and corruption, Nicaragua has turned a new leaf and has opened its doors to the world to allow visitors to experience the stunning...
by Daniel T. DeMetris
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
ISLAND DREAMS
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create your own special place, from scratch, in a distant country? Perhaps on a remote and idyllic Caribbean island far from the troubles of the modern and hectic world? This is that story, it is a true and exciting chronicle...
Revolution
The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Rising literary star Deb Olin Unferth offers a new twist on the coming-of-age memoir in this utterly unique and captivating story of the year she ran away from college with her Christian boyfriend and followed him to Nicaragua to join the Sandinistas.
Despite their earnest commitment to a myriad of...
To Bury Our Fathers
A Novel of Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Sergio Ramírez, writer and former civilian leader in the Sandinista revolutionary government from 1985-1990, has now won the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary award in the Hispanic world. He wrote his great panoramic novel from exile, and this was the first Nicaraguan novel ever translated into...
by Maria Fiallos
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
This guidebook by Maria Fiallos is the best coverage of Honduras available. All the dive sites, all the restaurants, and all the hotels from budget to luxury. The author is a real expert, and the information is fresh and complete. -- Melanie, Amazon reviewer A great new resource --Travel + Leisure ...
Making Men
Gender, Literary Authority, and Women’s Writing in Caribbean Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 1998
Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked—and relocated—to the United States. Incorporating...
by Ann González
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
In this volume González explores how the effects of a traumatic colonial experience are (re)presented to Latin American children today, almost two centuries after the dismantling of colonialism proper. Central to this study is the argument that the historical constraints of colonialism, neocolonialism,...
The Politics of Race in Panama
Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
"Delves into the historical convergence of peoples and cultural traditions that both enrich and problematize notions of national belonging, identity, culture, and citizenship."--Antonio D. Tillis, editor of Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature "With rich detail and...
by richard allan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Beyond Paradise is a travel / adventure true story - written with a dry sense of humor, set in tropical Central America during the epoch of the wars.The absolute worst luck any traveler might encounter, did raise its ugly head even to the point of being thrown into the dreaded "Choluteca...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Latino/a literature is one of the fastest developing fields in the discipline of literary studies. It represents an identity that is characterized by fluidity and diversity, often explored through divisions formed by language, race, gender, sexuality, and immigration.
The Routledge Companion...
Buenas Noches, American Culture
Latina/o Aesthetics of Night
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Often treated like night itself—both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized—Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and...