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Cuba in the Special Period
Culture and Ideology in the 1990s
Häftad, 2010
519 kr
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This collection examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. Contributors address the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of labour, leisure, and bureaucratic organization that arose in the transformation …
New Argentine Film
Other Worlds
Av G. Aguilar
Häftad, 2011
312 kr
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Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the "new Argentine cinema" phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films, including recent award-winners at …
Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience
Av C. Peters
Inbunden, 2012
566 kr
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Exploring the cultural politics of Cuba's epic military engagement in the Angolan civil war, this book narrates the transformation of Cuban national identity from Latin African to Caribbean through the experience of internationalism in Angola.
Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity
From Sensuality to Bloodshed
Inbunden, 2008
566 kr
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This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the revolutionary state and the …
Portable Island
Cubans at Home in the World
Inbunden, 2008
549 kr
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Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellow Cubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching. How do Cubans confront their condition as an uprooted people? The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in …
Essays in Cuban Intellectual History
Av R. Rojas
Inbunden, 2008
632 kr
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Well-known essayist and Cuban historian Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work, one which focuses on - and offers alternatives to - the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Rojas explores the most important themes of Cuban …
Portable Island
Cubans at Home in the World
Häftad, 2008
549 kr
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Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellow Cubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching. How do Cubans confront their condition as an uprooted people? The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in …
Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing
Av D. Baca
Inbunden, 2008
632 kr
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Conventional scholarship on written communication positions the Western alphabet as a precondition for literacy. Thus, pictographic, non-verbal writing practices of Mesoamerica remain obscured by representations of lettered speech. This book examines how contemporary Mestiz@ scripts challenge …
Confronting History and Modernity in Mexican Narrative
Av E. Guerrero
Inbunden, 2008
632 kr
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Guerrero focuses on a selection of Mexican historical novels that are particularly revealing of literary trends during the last three decades. The study addresses the balancing act of Mexican writers as they trace a national identity in the face of globalization and respond to modernization on …
Cuba in the Special Period
Culture and Ideology in the 1990s
Inbunden, 2009
519 kr
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This collection examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. Contributors address the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of labour, leisure, and bureaucratic organization that arose in the transformation …
Cuban Women Writers
Imagining a Matria
Inbunden, 2011
632 kr
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Betancourt examines women's writings in relation to language, power, sexuality and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the creation of alternative matria frameworks that enunciate a feminist/feminine perspective of the nationalist discourse.
Other Worlds
New Argentine Film
Av G. Aguilar
Inbunden, 2008
549 kr
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Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the 'new Argentine cinema' phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films, including those by Lucrecia …
Violence without Guilt
Ethical Narratives from the Global South
Inbunden, 2009
580 kr
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This is an illuminating discussion of guilt, fear, violence and aesthetics from a global perspective. Herlinghaus evaluates new Latin American novels, films and music through the lens of some of Walter Benjamin's controversial writings on violence and religion.
Violence without Guilt
Ethical Narratives from the Global South
Häftad, 2008
580 kr
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This is an illuminating discussion of guilt, fear, violence and aesthetics from a global perspective. Herlinghaus evaluates new Latin American novels, films and music through the lens of some of Walter Benjamin's controversial writings on violence and religion.
Redrawing The Nation
National Identity in Latin/o American Comics
Inbunden, 2009
519 kr
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This volume discusses the role of comics in the formation of a modern sense of nationhood in Latin America and the rise of a collective Latino identity in the USA. It is one of the first attempts - in English and from a cultural studies perspective - to cover Latin/o American comics with a fully …
Redrawing The Nation
National Identity in Latin/o American Comics
Häftad, 2009
519 kr
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This volume discusses the role of comics in the formation of a modern sense of nationhood in Latin America and the rise of a collective Latino identity in the USA. It is one of the first attempts - in English and from a cultural studies perspective - to cover Latin/o American comics with a fully …
Carnal Inscriptions
Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Disability
Av S. Antebi
Inbunden, 2009
580 kr
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This book explores manifestations of physical disability in Spanish American narrative fiction and performance, from José Martí's late nineteenth century crónicas, to Mario Bellatín's twenty-first century novels, from the performances of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco to the testimonio and …
Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration
Narratives of Displacement
Av Vanessa Perez Rosario, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
632 kr
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This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Díaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, …
Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration
Narratives of Displacement
Av Vanessa Perez Rosario, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
635 kr
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This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Díaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, …
Caviar with Rum
Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited in Cuban memory these days and what that means for creative production and the future of …
Caviar with Rum
Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience
Häftad, 2012
632 kr
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Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited in Cuban memory these days and what that means for creative production and the future of …
Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Body Articulations
Av B. Willis
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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Featuring canonical Spanish American and Brazilian texts of the 1920s and 30s, Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature is an innovative analysis of the body as site of inscription for avant-garde objectives such as originality, subjectivity, and subversion.
New Argentine and Brazilian Cinema
Reality Effects
Av J. Andermann, Á. Bravo
Inbunden, 2013
586 kr
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Reality Effects brings together the reflections of leading film scholars and critics from Latin America, the UK and the United States on the re-emergence of the real as a prime concern in contemporary Argentine and Brazilian film, and as a main reason for the acclaim both cinematographies have won …
Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry
Av Jossianna Arroyo, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1098 kr
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Addressing the transnational relationships of Freemasonry, politics, and culture in the field of Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures, Writing Secrecy provides insight into Pan-Caribbean, transnational and diasporic formations of these Masonic lodges and their influences on …
Brazil under Construction
Fiction and Public Works
Av S. Beal
Inbunden, 2013
1137 kr
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Brazil under Construction tracks how Brazil's major public works projects and the fiction surrounding them mark a twofold construction of the nation: the functional construction of the country's public infrastructure and the symbolic construction of nationhood.
Viral Voyages
Tracing AIDS in Latin America
Av L. Meruane
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, …
Sports and Nationalism in Latin / o America
Av H. Fernández L’Hoeste, R. Irwin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1316 kr
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This collection interrogates sports in Latin America as a key terrain in which nation is defined and populations are interpellated through emotionally charged practices (state policy, media representations, and sports play itself by professionals, national teams and amateurs) of inclusion and …
Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis
Av Lamonte Aidoo, Daniel F. Silva
Inbunden, 2016
1262 kr
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The first book-length edited collection on Machado de Assis, this volume offers essays on Machado de Assis' work that offer new critical perspectives not only Brazilian literature and history, but also to social, cultural, and political phenomena that continue to have global repercussions.
Humor in Latin American Cinema
Inbunden, 2015
586 kr
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This book addresses a variety of regional humor traditions such as exploitation cinema, Brazilian chanchada, the Cantinflas heritage, the comedy of manners and light sexuality, iconic figures and characters, as well as a variety of humor registers evident in different Latin American films.
Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought
Historical and Institutional Trajectories
Av Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1316 kr
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Through a collection of critical essays, this work explores twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture. The central question …
