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17 produkter
Aquí and Allá
Transnational Dominican Theater and Performance
Inbunden, 2019
738 kr
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Aquí and Allá: Transnational Dominican Theater and Performance explores how contemporary Dominican theater and performance artists portray a sense of collective belonging shaped by the transnational connections between the homeland and the diaspora. Through close readings of plays and performances …
Poets, Philosophers, Lovers
On the Writings of Giannina Braschi
Av Frederick Luis Aldama, Tess O'Dwyer
Inbunden, 2020
738 kr
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With a foreword by Ilan StavansThis collection of essays, by fifteen scholars across diverse fields, explores forty years of writing by Giannina Braschi, one of the most revolutionary Latinx authors of her generation. Since the 1980s, Braschi’s linguistic and structural ingenuities, radical …
City as Photographic Text
Urban Documentary Photography of São Paulo
Av David William Foster, David William Foster
Inbunden, 2021
738 kr
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The City as Photographic Text offers the first comprehensive presentation of photography on São Paulo. But more than just a study of one city’s photographic legacy, this book is a manual for how to understand and talk about Latin American photography in general. Focusing on major figures and …
Transnational Chicanx Perspectives on Ana Castillo
Av Bernadine Hernández, Karen Roybal
Inbunden, 2021
903 kr
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For more than forty years, Chicana author Ana Castillo has produced novels, poems, and critical essays that forge connections between generations; challenge borders around race, gender, and sexuality; and critically engage transnational issues of space, identity, and belonging. Her contributions to …
Transatlantic Radio Dramas
Antônio Callado and the BBC Latin American Service during and after World War II
Inbunden, 2023
983 kr
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The BBC Latin American Service was created in 1938, funded by the British Ministry of Information, to counter fascist propaganda broadcast to Latin America. Now considered one of the major Latin American novelists of the twentieth century, Brazilian writer Antônio Callado (1917–1997) got his start …
Welcome to Oxnard
Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros's Writings
Inbunden, 2024
834 kr
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Winner of the 2026 NACCS Book AwardMichele Serros (1966–2015) is widely known for her groundbreaking book Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard. Despite her status as a major figure in Chicanx literature, no scholar has written a book-length examination of her body of …
Chica Lit
Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century
Av Tace Hedrick
Häftad, 2015
478 kr
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In Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century, Tace Hedrick illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and commodification shape the genre of "chica lit," popular fiction written by Latina authors with Latina characters. She …
Bridges, Borders, and Breaks
History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism
Av William Orchard, Yolanda Padilla
Häftad, 2016
791 kr
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This volume reassesses the field of Chicana/o literary studies in light of the rise of Latina/o studies, the recovery of a large body of early literature by Mexican Americans, and the "transnational turn" in American studies. The chapters reveal how "Chicano" defines a literary critical sensibility …
Picturing the Barrio
Ten Chicano Photographers
Häftad, 2017
709 kr
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Mexican-American life, like that of nearly every contemporary community, has been extensively photographed. Yet there is surprisingly little scholarship on Chicano photography. Picturing the Barrio presents the first book-length examination on the topic. David William Foster analyzes the imagery of …
Hernandez Brothers
Love, Rockets, and Alternative Comics
Häftad, 2017
722 kr
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This study offers a critical examination of the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Mexican-American brothers whose graphic novels are highly influential. The Hernandez brothers started in the alt-comics scene, where their 'Love and Rockets' series quickly gained prominence. They have since …
Latino/a Children's and Young Adult Writers on the Art of Storytelling
Häftad, 2018
791 kr
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Children's and young adult literature has become an essential medium for identity formation in contemporary Latino/a culture in the United States. This book is an original collection of more than thirty interviews led by Frederick Luis Aldama with Latino/a authors working in the genre. The …
Reimagining Brazilian Television
Luiz Fernando Carvalho's Contemporary Vision
Av Eli Carter
Häftad, 2018
730 kr
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The Brazilian television industry is one of the most productive and commercially successful in the world. At the forefront of this industry is TV Globo and its production of standardized telenovelas, which millions of Brazilians and viewers from over 130 countries watch nightly. Eli Lee Carter …
Once and Future Muse
The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat
Av Nancy Kang, Silvio Torres-Saillant
Häftad, 2018
722 kr
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Honorable Mention, 2021 SSAWW Book AwardThe Once and Future Muse presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into the Poetry …
Translational Turn
Latinx Literature into the Mainstream
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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No contemporary development underscores the transnational linkage between the United States and Spanish-language América today more than the wave of in-migration from Spanish-language countries during the 1980s and 1990s. This development, among others, has made clear what has always been true, …
Healing Memories
Puerto Rican Women’s Literature in the United States
Häftad, 2019
512 kr
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Using an interdisciplinary approach, Healing Memories analyzes the ways that Puerto Rican women authors use their literary works to challenge historical methodologies that have silenced the historical experiences of Puerto Rican women in the United States. Following Aurora Levins Morales's …
Restless Ilan Stavans
Outsider on the Inside
Inbunden, 2019
791 kr
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This is the first book-length study of one of the most prominent and prolific Latino academics, Ilan Stavans. He has written extensively on Latino culture, Jewish culture, dictionaries, immigration, language, Spanglish, soccer, translation, travel, selfies, and God. The Restless Ilan Stavans …
Shared Truth
The Theater of Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol
Inbunden, 2019
735 kr
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Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol (Lizards Lounging in the Sun) is a Mexican theater company that performs what is known as theater of the real.By taking reality as its subject, this genre claims a special relationship to reality, truth, and authenticity. In A Shared Truth, Julie Ann Ward traces the …
