University Of Texas Press imprint: 2238 books
A Young Palestinian's Diary, 1941–1945
The Life of Sami 'Amr
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Writing in his late teens and early twenties, Sāmī 'Amr gave his diary an apt subtitle: The Battle of Life, encapsulating both the political climate of Palestine in the waning years of the British Mandate as well as the contrasting joys and troubles of family life. Now translated from the Arabic,...
Photopoetics at Tlatelolco
Afterimages of Mexico, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In the months leading up to the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, students took to the streets, calling for greater democratization and decrying crackdowns on political resistance by the ruling PRI party. During a mass meeting held at the Plaza of the Three Cultures in the Tlatelolco neighborhood, paramilitary...
Chicano Poetry
A Response to Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Alurista. Gary Soto. Bernice Zamora. José Montoya. These names, luminous to some, remain unknown to those who have not yet discovered the rich variety of late twentieth century Chicano poetry. With the flowering of the Chicano Movement in the mid-1960s came not only increased political awareness...
The Shattered Mirror
Representations of Women in Mexican Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Popular images of women in Mexico—conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television—were long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized fallen woman. But new representations of women and their roles in Mexican society have shattered the...
Prospero's Daughter
The Prose of Rosario Castellanos
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
A member of Mexico's privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America's most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O'Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos' prose writings, focusing specifically on...
by María Fernández
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Since the colonial era, Mexican art has emerged from an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global, which frequently involves invention, synthesis, and transformation of diverse discursive and artistic traditions. In this pathfinding book, María Fernández uses the concept of...
by Cathy L. Jrade
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Modernismo arose in Spanish American literature as a confrontation with and a response to modernizing forces that were transforming Spanish American society in the later nineteenth century. In this book, Cathy L. Jrade undertakes a full exploration of the modernista project and shows how it provided...
What is la hispanidad?
A conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Natives of the Iberian Peninsula and the twenty countries of Latin America, as well as their kinsfolk who've immigrated to the United States and around the world, share a common quality or identity characterized as la hispanidad. Or do they?In this lively, provocative book, two distinguished...
The Senses of Democracy
Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
In The Senses of Democracy, Francine R. Masiello traces a history of perceptions expressed in literature, the visual arts, politics, and history from the start of the nineteenth century to the present day. A wide transnational landscape frames the book along with an original and provocative thesis:...
Sexual Textualities
Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Since the 1991 publication of his groundbreaking book Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing, David William Foster has proposed a series of theoretical and critical principles for the analysis of Latin American culture from the perspectives of the queer. This book continues that project...
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond
Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
“El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium’s most significant and copious output. Argentine graphic narrative emerged in the 1980s, awakened by Héctor Oesterheld’s groundbreaking 1950s serial...
Mayas in the Marketplace
Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Selling handicrafts to tourists has brought the Maya peoples of Guatemala into the world market. Vendors from rural communities now offer their wares to more than 500,000 international tourists annually in the marketplaces of larger cities such as Antigua, Guatemala City, Panajachel, and Chichicastenango....
The Life of Our Language
Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift, and Revitalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The native Maya peoples of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize have been remarkably successful in maintaining their cultural identity during centuries of contact with and domination by outside groups. Yet change is occurring in all Mayan communities as contact with Spanish-speaking Ladino society...
The Devil's Book of Culture
History, Mushrooms, and Caves in Southern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Since the 1950s, the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca, Mexico, has drawn a strange assortment of visitors and pilgrimsschoolteachers and government workers, North American and European spelunkers exploring the region's vast cave system, and counterculturalists from hippies (John Lennon and other celebrities...