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36 produkter
Restless Dead
Necrowriting and Disappropriation
Häftad, 2020
502 kr
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Based on comparative readings of contemporary books from Latin America, Spain, and the United States, the essays of this book present a radical critique against strategies of literary appropriation that were once thought of as neutral, and even concomitant, components of the writing process. …
Restless Dead
Necrowriting and Disappropriation
Inbunden, 2020
1704 kr
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Based on comparative readings of contemporary books from Latin America, Spain, and the United States, the essays of this book present a radical critique against strategies of literary appropriation that were once thought of as neutral, and even concomitant, components of the writing process. …
History and Modern Media
A Personal Journey
Av John Mraz
Häftad, 2021
635 kr
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In History and Modern Media, John Mraz largely focuses on Mexican photography and his innovative methodology that examines historical photographs by employing the concepts of genre and functions. He developed this method in extensive work on photojournalism; it is here tested through examining two …
History and Modern Media
A Personal Journey
Av John Mraz
Inbunden, 2021
1526 kr
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In History and Modern Media, John Mraz largely focuses on Mexican photography and his innovative methodology that examines historical photographs by employing the concepts of genre and functions. He developed this method in extensive work on photojournalism; it is here tested through examining two …
Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures
Feminist Living as Resistance
Häftad, 2022
528 kr
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Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is an homage to a constellation of women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of our current global political-environmental crisis and the interlinked massive violence, enabled by the denigration of life and human relationships. In a world, in …
Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures
Feminist Living as Resistance
Inbunden, 2022
1481 kr
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Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures is an homage to a constellation of women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of our current global political-environmental crisis and the interlinked massive violence, enabled by the denigration of life and human relationships. In a world, in …
Unlawful Violence
Mexican Law and Cultural Production
Häftad, 2022
607 kr
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Violence has only increased in Mexico since 2000: 23,000 murders were recorded in 2016, and 29,168 in 2017.The abundance of laws and constitutional amendments that have cropped up in response are mirrored in Mexico's fragmented cultural production of the same period. Contemporary Mexican literature …
Unlawful Violence
Mexican Law and Cultural Production
Inbunden, 2022
1704 kr
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Violence has only increased in Mexico since 2000: 23,000 murders were recorded in 2016, and 29,168 in 2017.The abundance of laws and constitutional amendments that have cropped up in response are mirrored in Mexico's fragmented cultural production of the same period. Contemporary Mexican literature …
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist
Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
Häftad, 2022
305 kr
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Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Zavala makes the case that the very terms we use to describe drug traffickers are a constructed subterfuge for the real narcos: politicians, corporations, and the military. Though Donald Trump's …
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist
Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
Inbunden, 2022
1481 kr
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Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Zavala makes the case that the very terms we use to describe drug traffickers are a constructed subterfuge for the real narcos: politicians, corporations, and the military. Though Donald Trump's …
Monstrous Politics
Geography, Rights, and the Urban Revolution in Mexico City
Av Ben Gerlofs
Häftad, 2023
619 kr
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The birth of the world’s great megacities is the surest and starkest harbinger of the “urban age” inaugurated in the twentieth century. As the world’s urban population achieves majority for the first time in recorded history, theories proliferate on the nature of urban politics, including the shape …
Monstrous Politics
Geography, Rights, and the Urban Revolution in Mexico City
Av Ben Gerlofs
Inbunden, 2023
1526 kr
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The birth of the world’s great megacities is the surest and starkest harbinger of the “urban age” inaugurated in the twentieth century. As the world’s urban population achieves majority for the first time in recorded history, theories proliferate on the nature of urban politics, including the shape …
Mexican Transpacific
Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance
Häftad, 2022
692 kr
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The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance considers the influence of a Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the writing of several twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican authors, directors, and artists. In spite of the unquestionable influence of the Nikkei …
Mexican Transpacific
Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance
Inbunden, 2022
1704 kr
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The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance considers the influence of a Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the writing of several twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican authors, directors, and artists. In spite of the unquestionable influence of the Nikkei …
Robo Sacer
Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx Dystopias
Häftad, 2023
607 kr
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Robo Sacer engages the digital humanities, critical race theory, border studies, biopolitical theory, and necropolitical theory to interrogate how technology has been used to oppress people of Mexican descent—both within Mexico and in the United States—since the advent of the North American Free …
Robo Sacer
Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx Dystopias
Inbunden, 2023
1704 kr
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Robo Sacer engages the digital humanities, critical race theory, border studies, biopolitical theory, and necropolitical theory to interrogate how technology has been used to oppress people of Mexican descent—both within Mexico and in the United States—since the advent of the North American Free …
Mexico, Interrupted
Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence
Häftad, 2023
544 kr
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Mexican independence was, in a sense, an economic event. It was so on two counts. First, it was in the realm of the economic that elites managed to create a common ground with non-elites in their demands against foreign domination. Second, it was an economic event in that, throughout the 19th …
Mexico, Interrupted
Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence
Inbunden, 2023
1526 kr
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Mexican independence was, in a sense, an economic event. It was so on two counts. First, it was in the realm of the economic that elites managed to create a common ground with non-elites in their demands against foreign domination. Second, it was an economic event in that, throughout the 19th …
Serial Mexico
Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now
Häftad, 2023
607 kr
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No book until now has tied in two centuries of Mexican serial narratives—striking tales of glory, of fame, of colorful epic characters, grounded in oral folklore—with their subsequent retelling in comics, radio, and television soap operas. Amy Wright's colorful multidisciplinary Serial Mexico …
Serial Mexico
Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now
Inbunden, 2023
1704 kr
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No book until now has tied in two centuries of Mexican serial narratives—striking tales of glory, of fame, of colorful epic characters, grounded in oral folklore—with their subsequent retelling in comics, radio, and television soap operas. Amy Wright's colorful multidisciplinary Serial Mexico …
Sonic Strategies
Performing Mexico's War on Drugs, Mourning, and Feminicide
Häftad, 2023
544 kr
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Sonic Strategies for Performing the Modern Nation highlights what author Christina Baker refers to as the “sonic strategies” employed by contemporary performance artists in Mexico in response to the violence surrounding the government’s so-called War on Drugs. The introduction (which opens with the …
Sonic Strategies
Performing Mexico's War on Drugs, Mourning, and Feminicide
Inbunden, 2023
1526 kr
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Sonic Strategies for Performing the Modern Nation highlights what author Christina Baker refers to as the “sonic strategies” employed by contemporary performance artists in Mexico in response to the violence surrounding the government’s so-called War on Drugs. The introduction (which opens with the …
Subjunctive Aesthetics
Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change
Häftad, 2024
351 kr
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Subjunctive Aesthetics argues for the importance of ecocritical approaches within the field of Mexican Studies. While environmental historians of Mexico have been leading the charge in terms of foregrounding the nonhuman as a legitimate object of analysis, Mexican cultural studies is just beginning …
Subjunctive Aesthetics
Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change
Inbunden, 2024
1704 kr
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Subjunctive Aesthetics argues for the importance of ecocritical approaches within the field of Mexican Studies. While environmental historians of Mexico have been leading the charge in terms of foregrounding the nonhuman as a legitimate object of analysis, Mexican cultural studies is just beginning …
Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist
A Critical History of Women, Patriarchy, and Mexican National Discourse
Av Carlos Monsiváis, Norma Klahn m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
351 kr
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This critical anthology of writings by Carlos Monsiváis represents a foundational set of texts by an exceptional (yet under‑translated) Mexican cultural critic. Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist situates the urgencies of social movements as they developed in real time. The essays span from 1973 to …
Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist
A Critical History of Women, Patriarchy, and Mexican National Discourse
Av Carlos Monsiváis, Norma Klahn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1704 kr
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This critical anthology of writings by Carlos Monsiváis represents a foundational set of texts by an exceptional (yet under‑translated) Mexican cultural critic. Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist situates the urgencies of social movements as they developed in real time. The essays span from 1973 to …
Biocosmism
Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Häftad, 2024
479 kr
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Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexican culture as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through murals, novels, essays, and other artifacts that registered the changing political and social realities in the wake of the Revolution. In Biocosmism, Jorge …
Biocosmism
Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Inbunden, 2024
1526 kr
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Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexican culture as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through murals, novels, essays, and other artifacts that registered the changing political and social realities in the wake of the Revolution. In Biocosmism, Jorge …
"We, the Barbarians"
Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century
Av Mabel Moraña
Häftad, 2024
565 kr
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We the Barbarians embarks on a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction: Yuri Herrera, Fernanda Melchor, and Valeria Luiselli. Originally published in Mexico in December of 2021, the work is divided into three parts that correspond …
"We, the Barbarians"
Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century
Av Mabel Moraña
Inbunden, 2024
2125 kr
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We the Barbarians embarks on a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction: Yuri Herrera, Fernanda Melchor, and Valeria Luiselli. Originally published in Mexico in December of 2021, the work is divided into three parts that correspond …
