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70 produkter
Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History
Häftad, 2009
446 kr
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In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical …
Slum and the City
Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires
Inbunden, 2024
809 kr
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Winner, 2024 Modern Language Association Katherine Singer Kovacs PrizeThe Argentine capital is largely perceived as a middle-class space. Yet in reality, urban poverty and precarious settlements are defining features of the city. Agnese Codebò investigates how slums have produced culture as well as …
Micah
Introduction and Commentary
Inbunden, 2025
546 kr
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Discover the historical, literary, and theological significance of the book of Micah Written by Carolyn J. Sharp, a leading scholar of biblical prophetic literature, this commentary provides scholars and preachers with a thorough overview of historical, literary, and theological dimensions of the …
Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism
Av Pablo Calvi
Inbunden, 2019
959 kr
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Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism explores the central role of narrative journalism in the formation of national identities in Latin America, and the concomitant role the genre had in the consolidation of the idea of Latin America as a supra-national entity. This work discusses the …
Failure of Latin America
Postcolonialism in Bad Times
Inbunden, 2019
648 kr
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The Failure of Latin America is a collection of John Beverley’s previously published essays and pairs them with new material that reflects on questions of post-colonialism and equality within the context of receding continental socialism. Beverley sees an impasse within both the academic …
Unwanted Witnesses
Journalists and Conflict in Contemporary Latin America
Inbunden, 2019
806 kr
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Gabriela Polit Dueñas analyzes the work of five narrative journalists from three countries. Marcela Turati, Daniela Rea, and Sandra Rodriguez from Mexico, Patricia Nieto from Colombia, and María Eugenia Ludueña from Argentina produce compelling literary works, but also work under dangerous, intense …
Defiant Geographies
Race and Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro
Av Lorraine Leu
Inbunden, 2020
820 kr
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Defiant Geographies examines the destruction of a poor community in the center of Rio de Janeiro to make way for Brazil’s first international mega-event. As the country celebrated the centenary of its independence, its postabolition whitening ideology took on material form in the urban development …
Queer Exposures
Sexuality and Photography in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction and Poetry
Av Ryan Long
Inbunden, 2021
903 kr
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Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) stands out among recent Latin American writers because of his unique combination of critical acclaim, popularity, and literary significance. Queer Exposures analyzes two central but understudied topics in Bolaño’s fiction and poetry: sexuality and photography. Moving …
Impossible Domesticity
Travels in Mexico
Av Leila Gómez
Inbunden, 2021
921 kr
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Translated by Robert WeisTravelers from Europe, North, and South America often perceive Mexico as a mythical place onto which they project their own cultures’ desires, fears, and anxieties. Gómez argues that Mexico’s role in these narratives was not passive and that the environment, peoples, ruins, …
Other Americans
The Art of Latin America in the US Imaginary
Av Matthew Bush
Inbunden, 2022
806 kr
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Grounded in perspectives of affect theory, Other Americans examines the writings of Roberto Bolaño and Daniel Alarcón; films by Alfonso Cuarón, Claudia Llosa, Matt Piedmont, and Joel and Ethan Coen; as well as the Netflix serials Narcos and El marginal. These widely consumed works about Latin …
Modernity at the Movies
Cinema-Going in Buenos Aires and Santiago, 1915-1945
Inbunden, 2023
924 kr
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Cinema can both reflect the world as it is and offer escape from it. In Modernity at the Movies, Camila Gatica Mizala explores the ideas of reflection versus escapism and examines how modes of understanding the current moment emerged through the practice of going to the movies in Santiago and …
Other Border Wars
Conflict and Stasis in Latin American Culture
Av Shannon Dowd
Inbunden, 2024
880 kr
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The Other Border Wars: Conflict and Stasis in Latin American Culture questions bordering as an organizing principle of culture, conflict, and politics. Shannon Dowd argues that Central and South American border conflicts such as the Chaco War, between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932–1935); the Soccer …
New No-Man’s-Land
Writing and Art at Guantánamo, Cuba
Inbunden, 2024
903 kr
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Guantánamo sits at the center of two of the most vexing issues of US policy of the past century: relations with Cuba and the Global War on Terror. It is a contested, extralegal space. In A New No-Man’s-Land, Esther Whitfield explores a multilingual archive of materials produced both at the US naval …
Return of the Contemporary
The Latin American Novel in the End Times
Inbunden, 2024
983 kr
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In The Return of the Contemporary, Nicolás Campisi combines the fields of post-dictatorship studies and environmental humanities to analyze Latin American cultural production in the neoliberal age. Each chapter pairs two authors from different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean who create a …
Promising Past
Remodeling Fictions in Parque Central, Caracas
Inbunden, 2025
983 kr
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Vicente Lecuna examines an array of fictions surrounding Parque Central, a high-rise development conceived and built by the Venezuelan government as a key component of a modernization and urban renewal project. He classifies these fictions into two types: modeling and remodeling. Modeling fictions …
Exposing the Nation
Histories of Photography in Chile, 1860–1960
Inbunden, 2026
1736 kr
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Is photography a Eurocentric practice that others its subjects? In Exposing the Nation, Matthias Pfaller makes the case with a review of a national historiography of photography and images produced in Chile over the course of a century. There are multiple photographies, and they have a variety of …
Lines of Flight
Citizenship, Borders, and Migrant Subjectivity
Av Mabel Moraña
Inbunden, 2027
1939 kr
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An abridged and translated version of Lineas de fuga. Ciudadania, frontera y sujeto migrante, first published in Spanish in 2021.Lines of Flight: Citizenship, Borders, and Migrant Subjectivity offers an incisive, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary approach to the constellation of real-world and …
Testimonial Diffractions
Cultural and Legal Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Argentina
Inbunden, 2026
2166 kr
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Ana Forcinito explores how testimonial voices have played a pivotal role in the fight for justice, memory, and gender rights. Through the concept of diffraction, she examines how these voices move through and reshape barriers to construct sonic spaces that connect bodies and create spaces for …
Novel Distortions
Postnationalism and Literary Form in Mexico and Central America
Inbunden, 2026
1939 kr
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The novel emerged in lockstep with the nation-state, serving as the cultural counterpart to political form in the modern era. However, these dynamics are unraveling as the raison d’être of the contemporary state veers from its people to the neoliberal market. In Novel Distortions, Tamara L. …
Affective Economies of Migration
Chinese-Peruvian Bonds, Loves, and Friendships
Inbunden, 2027
1939 kr
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Affective Economies of Migration offers a nuanced analysis of how affective relationships—romantic love, friendship, trust, kinship, and more—were converted into forms of economic capital. Estimates suggest that around five percent of Peruvians have Chinese ancestry as a result of transpacific …
Rockin Las Americas
The Global Politics Of Rock In Latin/o America
Av Deborah Pacini, Eric Zolov m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
834 kr
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Every nation in the Americas—from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba—has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin\u2019 Las Am\u00e9ricas is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central …
Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America
Häftad, 2006
791 kr
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The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America examines the canonical Latin American avant-garde texts of the 1920s and 1930s in novels, travel writing, journalism, and poetry, and presents them in a new light as formulators of modern Western culture and precursors of global culture. Particular …
Curse of Nemur
In Search of the Art, Myth and Ritual of the Ishir
Häftad, 2007
749 kr
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The Tom-raho, a subgroup of the Ishir (Chamacoco) of Paraguay, are one of the few remaining indigenous populations who have managed to keep both their language and spiritual beliefs intact. They have lived for many years in a remote region of the Gran Chaco, having limited contact with European or …
Optic of the State
Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil
Häftad, 2007
688 kr
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The Optic of the State traces the production of nationalist imaginaries through the public visual representation of modern state formation in Brazil and Argentina. As Jens Andermann reveals, the foundational visions of national heritage, territory, and social and ethnic composition were conceived …
Other South
Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariátegui Tradition
Häftad, 2007
791 kr
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Hosam Aboul-Ela provides a startlingly original perspective on Faulkner, examining his work in the transnational context of the \u201cGlobal South\u201d: the geopolitical and economic dynamics of the post-Reconstruction period that link the American South to the larger colonial tradition. Other …
Intersecting Tango
Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900-1930
Häftad, 2008
829 kr
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In the early part of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires erupted from its colonial past as a city in its own right, expressing a unique and vibrant cultural identity.Intersecting Tango engages the city at this key moment, exploring the sweeping changes of 1900-1930 to capture this culture in motion …
Literature and Subjection
The Economy of Writing and Marginality in Latin America
Häftad, 2008
791 kr
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Through theoretical, philosophical, cultural, political, and historical analysis, Horacio Legras views the myriad factors that have both formed and stifled the integration of peripheral experiences into Latin American literature. Despite these barriers, Legras reveals a handful of contemporary …
Andes Imagined
Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity
Häftad, 2009
688 kr
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In The Andes Imagined, Jorge Coronado not only examines but also recasts the indigenismo movement of the early 1900s. Coronado departs from the common critical conception of indigenismo as rooted in novels and short stories, and instead analyzes an expansive range of work in poetry, essays, …
Without History
Subaltern Studies, the Zapatista Insurgency, and the Specter of History
Av Jose Rabasa
Häftad, 2010
771 kr
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On December 22, 1997, forty-five unarmed members of the indigenous organization Las Abejas (The Bees) were massacred during a prayer meeting in the village of Acteal, Mexico. The members of Las Abejas, who are pacifists, pledged their support to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a …
