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67 produkter
Radical Chicana Poetics
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez
Inbunden, 2013
632 kr
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Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing.
Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food
Postnational Appetites
Av M. Abarca
Inbunden, 2013
632 kr
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As Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature. Here, contributors propose food consciousness as a paradigm to examine the literary discourses of Chicana/o authors as …
Literary and Cultural Relations between Brazil and Mexico
Deep Undercurrents
Inbunden, 2013
632 kr
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Joining a timely conversation within the field of intra-American literature, this study takes a fresh look at Latin America by locating fragments and making evident the mostly untold story of horizontal (south-south) contacts across a multilingual, multicultural continent.
Mexican Public Intellectuals
Av D. Castillo, S. Day
Inbunden, 2014
632 kr
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In Mexico, the participation of intellectuals in public life has always been extraordinary, and for many the price can be high. Highlighting prominent figures that have made incursions into issues such as elections, human rights, foreign policy, and the drug war, this volume paints a picture of the …
TransLatin Joyce
Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature
Av B. Price, C. Salgado m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
632 kr
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TransLatin Joyce explores the circulation of James Joyce's work in the Ibero-American literary system. The essays address Joycean literary engagements in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba, using concepts from postcolonial translation studies, antimodernism, game theory, sound studies, …
Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship
Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics
Av E. Hernández, E. Rodriguez y Gibson
Inbunden, 2014
695 kr
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Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media.
Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America
Noteworthy Protagonists
Inbunden, 2014
632 kr
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Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada.
New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative
Post-National Literatures and the Canon
Inbunden, 2014
632 kr
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Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug …
Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star
Critical Essays
Inbunden, 2015
632 kr
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Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays of his …
Mythological Constructs of Mexican Femininity
Av Pilar Melero
Inbunden, 2015
632 kr
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Mexican figures like La Virgen de Guadalupe, la Malinche, la Llorona, and la Chingada reflect different myths of motherhood in Mexican culture. For the first time, Melero examines these instances of portrayed motherhood as a discursive space in the political, cultural, and literary context of early …
National Body in Mexican Literature
Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control
Inbunden, 2015
632 kr
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The National Body in Mexican Literature presents a revisionist reading of the Mexican canon that challenges assumptions of State hegemony and national identity. It analyzes the representation of sick, disabled, and miraculously healed bodies in Mexican literature from 1940 to 1980 in narrative …
Ethics and Literature in Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay, 1970-2000
From the Singular to the Specific
Inbunden, 2016
1070 kr
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This book argues for a new reading of the political and ethical through the literatures of Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay from 1970-2000. Carlos Amador reads a series of examples from the last dictatorship and the current post-dictatorship period in the Southern Cone, including works by Augusto Roa …
Revisiting the Mexican Student Movement of 1968
Shifting Perspectives in Literature and Culture since Tlatelolco
Av Juan J. Rojo
Inbunden, 2016
1257 kr
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Tracing the evolution of Mexican literary and cultural production following the Tlatelolco massacre, this book shows its progression from a homogeneous construct set on establishing the “true” history of Tlatelolco against the version of the State, to a more nuanced and complex series of historical …
Ritual Structures in Chicana Fiction
Inbunden, 2016
632 kr
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This book argues for the necessary and further examination of the sacred as it is ritualized within Chicana fiction. It suggests that religious, spiritual, linguistic and political symbolisms reveal rites that structure narrative performances of coping with and healing from trauma. Helane Androne …
Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry
The Lyric and the State
Av Ben Bollig
Inbunden, 2016
1132 kr
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This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of “lyric” and “state” as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Argentinian poets have conceived a political role for their work and how poems …
Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography
Av Juan Velasco
Inbunden, 2016
1132 kr
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The first book length study of this genre, Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography facilitates new understandings of how people and cultures are displaced and reinvent themselves. Through the examination of visual arts and literature, Juan Velasco …
Paratexts and Performance in the Novels of Junot Díaz and Sandra Cisneros
Inbunden, 2015
632 kr
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Part of a new phase of post-1960s U.S. Latino literature, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz and Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros both engage in unique networks of paratexts that center on the performance of latinidad. Here, Ellen McCracken re-envisions Gérard Genette's paratexts for the …
Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures
Inbunden, 2016
1382 kr
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Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures engages and problematizes concepts such as “decolonial” and “coloniality” to question methodologies in literary and cultural scholarship. While the eleven contributions produce diverse approaches to literary and cultural texts ranging …
Radical Chicana Poetics
Av Ricardo F. Vivancos Perez, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
632 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing.
Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food
Postnational Appetites
Av M. Abarca
Häftad, 2015
632 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature. Here, contributors propose food consciousness as a paradigm to examine the literary discourses of Chicana/o authors as …
Literary and Cultural Relations between Brazil and Mexico
Deep Undercurrents
Häftad, 2013
632 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Joining a timely conversation within the field of intra-American literature, this study takes a fresh look at Latin America by locating fragments and making evident the mostly untold story of horizontal (south-south) contacts across a multilingual, multicultural continent.
Mexican Public Intellectuals
Av D. Castillo, S. Day
Häftad, 2014
632 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In Mexico, the participation of intellectuals in public life has always been extraordinary, and for many the price can be high. Highlighting prominent figures that have made incursions into issues such as elections, human rights, foreign policy, and the drug war, this volume paints a picture of the …
TransLatin Joyce
Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature
Av B. Price, C. Salgado m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
632 kr
Lägg i varukorg
TransLatin Joyce explores the circulation of James Joyce's work in the Ibero-American literary system. The essays address Joycean literary engagements in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba, using concepts from postcolonial translation studies, antimodernism, game theory, sound studies, …
Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship
Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics
Av E. Hernández, E. Rodriguez y Gibson
Häftad, 2014
695 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media.
Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America
Noteworthy Protagonists
Häftad, 2015
632 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada.
New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative
Post-National Literatures and the Canon
Häftad, 2015
632 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug …
Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star
Critical Essays
Häftad, 2015
632 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays of his …
National Body in Mexican Literature
Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control
Häftad, 2016
632 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The National Body in Mexican Literature presents a revisionist reading of the Mexican canon that challenges assumptions of State hegemony and national identity. It analyzes the representation of sick, disabled, and miraculously healed bodies in Mexican literature from 1940 to 1980 in narrative …
Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures
Häftad, 2020
1382 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures engages and problematizes concepts such as “decolonial” and “coloniality” to question methodologies in literary and cultural scholarship. While the eleven contributions produce diverse approaches to literary and cultural texts ranging …
(Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape
Av Cristina Herrera, Larissa M. Mercado-López
Inbunden, 2016
1257 kr
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This book broadens the scope of Latina/o criticism to include both widely-read and understudied nineteenth through twenty-first century fictional works that engage in critical discussions of gender, race, sexuality, and identity. The essays in this collection do not simply seek inclusion for the …
