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Disidentifications
Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
Häftad, 1999
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253 kr
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There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. JosÉ Esteban MuÑoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture-not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these …
Consumers and Citizens
Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts
Häftad, 2001
273 kr
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An essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power.Social Theory/Latin American StudiesAn essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power. In Consumers and Citizens, NÉstor GarcÍa Canclini, the best-known and …
Fence and the River
Av Claire Fox
Häftad, 1999
302 kr
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The U.S.-Mexico border has not only been the site of volatile debates, most recently prompted by migration policies and NAFTA, but it has also been a source of artistic inspiration. In "The Fence and the River", Claire Fox offers an extensively illustrated study that asks how the art produced about …
Latin Americanism
Häftad, 1999
348 kr
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Analyzes the way North American academics have constructed Latin America.In this timely book, RomÁn de la Campa asks to what degree the Latin America studied in U.S. academies is actually an entity “made in the U.S.A.” He argues that there is an ever-increasing gap between the political, …
Cuban Cinema
Häftad, 2004
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The earliest films made in Cuba—newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War—date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to have had an indigenous film industry before the revolution of 1959. The melodramas, musicals, and comedies made until then reflected …
Cultural Residues
Chile in Transition
Häftad, 2004
287 kr
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A complex portrait of postdictatorial Chile by one of that country’s most incisive cultural critics, this book uses memoirs, photographs, the plastic arts, novels, and other texts-the “residues” of a culture-to analyze the political-cultural Chilean landscape in the wake of Augusto Pinochet’s …
Border Women
Writing from La Frontera
Häftad, 2002
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The first study to foreground writing by women who live at the U.S.-Mexico Border.It is a peculiar fact that U.S.-Mexico border theory is dominated by those who write about, not from, the border. By looking at the work of women writers from both sides of the border, Debra A. Castillo and …
Masking and Power
Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean
Häftad, 2002
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An ambitious reassessment of the political uses of masking.Does the mask reveal more than it conceals? What, this book asks, becomes visible and invisible in the masking practiced in Caribbean cultures-not only in the familiar milieu of the carnival but in political language, social conduct, and …
Captive Women
Oblivion and Memory in Argentina
Häftad, 2002
297 kr
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An exposÉ of Argentina’s attempts to whitewash its national history.Argentina is the only country in the Americas that has successfully erased the presence of Indians, Africans, and mestizos from its national story. Official documents, reports, and censuses have largely omitted any references to …
Ethnography at the Border
Av Pablo Vila
Häftad, 2003
326 kr
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An illuminating account of life at the U.S.-Mexico borderFor cultural theorists, “the border” has proven a fluid and hybrid space profitably explored for new ideas about identity, gender, and ethnicity. But for those who occupy this region, the border is not merely a metaphor, but a lived …
Mexican Masculinities
Häftad, 2003
348 kr
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A fascinating examination of masculinity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century MexicoThe first of its kind and a powerful challenge to customary views of gender and sexuality in the life and literature of Mexico, this book traces literary representations of masculinity in Mexico from independence in …
Critical Latin American and Latino Studies
Av Juan Poblete
Häftad, 2003
326 kr
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Situates these dynamic disciplines within debates around globalizationThis book brings together some of the most prominent scholars working across the spectrum of Latin American and Latino studies to explore their changing intellectual undertaking in relation to global processes of change. Critical …
Queer Ricans
Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora
Av Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Häftad, 2009
277 kr
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Exploring cultural expressions of Puerto Rican queer migration from the Caribbean to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes analyzes how artists have portrayed their lives and the discrimination they have faced in both Puerto Rico and the United …
Cuban Palimpsests
Av Jose Quiroga
Häftad, 2005
217 kr
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Four decades ago, the Cuban revolution captured the world's attention and imagination. Its impact around the world was as much cultural as geopolitical. Within Cuba, the state developed a strictly defined national and collective memory that led directly from a colonial past to a utopian future, but …
Transatlantic Topographies
Islands, Highlands, Jungles
Häftad, 2004
287 kr
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Explores the construction of the Americas by and through European eyesTransatlantic Topographies was first published in 2004. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of …
Rain Forest Literatures
Amazonian Texts and Latin American Culture
Av Lucia Sa
Häftad, 2004
332 kr
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Recaptures native literatures of the Amazonian rain forestNative texts of the Amazonian rain forest have been viewed as myth or ethnographic matter-the raw material of literature-rather than as significant works in their own right. But in this unprecedented study, LÚcia SÁ approaches indigenous …
Couture and Consensus
Fashion and Politics in Postcolonial Argentina
Häftad, 2010
313 kr
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Following Argentina’s revolution in 1810, the dress of young patriots inspired a nation and distanced its politics from the relics of Spanish colonialism. Fashion writing often escaped the notice of authorities, allowing authors to masquerade political ideas under the guise of frivolity and …
Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints
Cultural Icons of Mexico's Northwest Borderlands
Häftad, 2007
304 kr
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Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints investigates cultural icons of the late nineteenth century from Mexico’s largely unstudied northwest borderlands, present-day Sonora, Baja California, and western Chihuahua. Robert McKee Irwin looks at popular figures such as JoaquÍn Murrieta, the gold rush …
Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism
Häftad, 2008
277 kr
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The only recent English-language work on Spanish-American indigenismo from a literary perspective, Estelle Tarica’s work shows how modern Mexican and Andean discourses about the relationship between Indians and non-Indians create a unique literary aesthetic that is instrumental in defining the …
Cuban Currency
The Dollar and "Special Period" Fiction
Häftad, 2008
273 kr
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, during an economic crisis termed its “special period in times of peace,” Cuba began to court the capitalist world for the first time since its 1959 revolution. With the U.S. dollar instated as domestic currency, the island seemed suddenly …
Carnival Theater
Uruguay's Popular Performers and National Culture
Häftad, 2004
297 kr
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Offers a new model for interpreting popular national culture through Uruguay’s carnival theater troupesThe murgas are troupes of performers, musicians, writers, and creators who, during Montevideo’s Carnival, perform on the tablados, temporary stages built in the neighborhoods of Uruguay’s capital …
Infertilities
Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies
Häftad, 2000
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An original analysis of the role of female reproduction in the project of empire.In today’s global market, ideas about family, femininity, and reproduction are traded on as actively as any currency or stock. The connection has a history, one rooted in a conception of feminine identities invented …
