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Generation Multiplex

The Image of Youth in American Cinema after 1980

by Timothy Shary
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014

Generation Multiplex (2002) was the first comprehensive study of the representation of teenagers in American cinema since David Considine's Cinema of Adolescence in 1985. This updated and expanded edition reaffirms the idea that films about youth constitute a legitimate genre worthy of study on its own...
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by Kimberly Katz
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,...
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Photopoetics at Tlatelolco

Afterimages of Mexico, 1968

by Samuel Steinberg
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...
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Chicano Poetry

A Response to Chaos

by Juan Bruce-Novoa
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...
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The Shattered Mirror

Representations of Women in Mexican Literature

by María Elena de Valdés
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...
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Prospero's Daughter

The Prose of Rosario Castellanos

by Joanna O'Connell
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...
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by María Fernández
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...
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by Cathy L. Jrade
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...
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What is la hispanidad?

A conversation

by Ilan Stavans, Iván Jaksić
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...
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The Senses of Democracy

Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America

by Francine R. Masiello
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:...
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Sexual Textualities

Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing

by David William Foster
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...
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El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond

Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil

by David William Foster
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...
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Mayas in the Marketplace

Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity

by Walter E. Little
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....
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The Life of Our Language

Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift, and Revitalization

by Susan Garzon, R. McKenna Brown, Julia Becker Richards
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...
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