Frederick Aldama: 18 books
Latinx Studies
The Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage...
Brown on Brown
Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Common conceptions permeating U.S. ethnic queer theory tend to confuse aesthetics with real-world acts and politics. Often Chicano/a representations of gay and lesbian experiences in literature and film are analyzed simply as propaganda. The cognitive, emotional, and narrational ingredients (that...
by Frederick Luis Aldama, Javier Hernandez
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Eisner Award Winner for Best Scholarly/Academic Work
Whether good or evil, beautiful or ugly, smart or downright silly, able-bodied or differently abled, gay or straight, male or female, young or old, Latinx superheroes in mainstream comic book stories are few and far between....
Why the Humanities Matter
A Commonsense Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Is there life after postmodernism? Many claim that it sounded the death knell for history, art, ideology, science, possibly all of Western philosophy, and certainly for the concept of reality itself. Responding to essential questions regarding whether the humanities can remain politically and academically...
by Frederick Luis Aldama
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Why are so many people attracted to narrative fiction? How do authors in this genre reframe experiences, people, and environments anchored to the real world without duplicating "real life"? In which ways does fiction differ from reality? What might fictional narrative and reality have in...
Postethnic Narrative Criticism
Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Magical realism has become almost synonymous with Latin American fiction, but this way of representing the layered and often contradictory reality of the topsy-turvy, late-capitalist, globalizing world finds equally vivid expression in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. Writers...
by Frederick Luis Aldama
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Children’s and young adult literature has become an essential medium for identity formation in contemporary Latino/a culture in the United States. This book is an original collection of more than thirty interviews led by Frederick Luis Aldama with Latino/a authors working in the genre. The conversations...
Your Brain on Latino Comics
From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Though the field of comic book studies has burgeoned in recent years, Latino characters and creators have received little attention. Putting the spotlight on this vibrant segment, Your Brain on Latino Comics illuminates the world of superheroes Firebird, Vibe, and the new Blue Beetle while also examining...
by Frederick Luis Aldama
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature presents the first comprehensive overview of these popular, experimental and diverse literary cultures.
Frederick Luis Aldama traces a historical path through Latino/a literature, examining both the historical and political contexts of the...
Long Stories Cut Short
Fictions from the Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Xbox videogamer cholo cyberpunks. Infants who read before they talk. Vatos locos, romancing abuelos, border crossers and border smugglers, drug kingpins, Latina motorbike riders, philosophically musing tweens, and so much more.
The stories in this dynamic bilingual prose-art collection touch...
Aesthetics of Discomfort
Conversations on Disquieting Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics. The conversational format allows them to travel informally...
Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia
Conversations with Writers and Artists
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Since the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicano/a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicano/a literature and art. Building on the pioneering work of their predecessors, whose artistic creations were often tied to political activism and the civil...
by Frederick Luis Aldama
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Robert Rodriguez stands alone as the most successful U.S. Latino filmmaker today, whose work has single-handedly brought U.S. Latino filmmaking into the mainstream of twenty-first-century global cinema. Rodriguez is a prolific (eighteen films in twenty-one years) and all-encompassing filmmaker who has...
Redrawing the Historical Past
History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new understanding of the past. The twelve essays explore...
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