Hispanic & Latino

No contemporary development underscores the transnational linkage between the United States and Spanish-language America today more than the wave of in-migration from Spanish-language countries during the 1980s and 1990s. This development, among others,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816530298Author Michael DowdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 422g

2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948, Jose F. Aranda Jr. describes the first one hundred years of Mexican American literature. He argues for the importance of interrogating the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608012114Author Olaf KaltmeierFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)...

Poetic Encounters in the Americas: Remarkable Bridge examines the ways in which U.S. and Latin American modernist canons have been in cross-cultural, mutually enabling conversation, especially through the act of literary translation. Examining eighteen U...

Caribbean literature and culture have all too often been viewed in fragmented terms, without attention to the broader commonalities of the region. In this collection of essays written over many years, Roberto Marquez offers a more encompassing vision,...

Dialectical Imaginaries brings together essays that analyze the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of U.S. Latino/a literature. The editors argue that recent global events have compelled contemporary scholars to...

The rewritings of the Mexican colonia discussed in this book question a present reality of marginalities and inequality, of imposed political domination, and of hybrid subjectivities. In their examination of the novels, films, poetry, and chronicles...

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...

This polished literary history argues forcefully that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a vast network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and...

2009 - Runner-up, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesBlood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature examines a broad array of texts that have contributed to...

Widely acclaimed as the founder of Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya is one of America's most compelling and prolific authors. A recipient of a National Humanities Medal and best known for his debut novel, Bless Me, Ultima, his writings span multiple...

The recent fiction of Spanish America has been widely acclaimed for its experimental and revolutionary qualities. In Reclaiming the Author, Lucille Kerr studies the sources of power of this newly emergent literature in her detailed examination of the...

A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a retirement community-these are the kinds of spatial...

Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and rules imposed by governments, communities, social groups...

Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalization. James Lull, one of the leading scholars in the discipline, draws from a wide range of social and...

Jean Franco's work as a pathbreaking theorist, cultural critic, and scholar has helped to define Latin American studies over the last three decades. In the process, Franco has played a crucial role in developing cultural studies in both the English- and...

Geographies of Relation offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands texts and performances that considers the inseparability of race, ethnicity, and gender in imagining and enacting social change. Theresa Delgadillo crosses interdisciplinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255025Author Stephanie FettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry collects personal and academic writing from Latino, Latin American, Latinx, and Luso poets about the nature of poetry and its practice. At the heart of this anthology lies the intersection of history, language,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781888162Author Luis Castellvi LaukampFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 13mm

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438472591Author Arturo AriasFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604976175Author Enrique Morales-DiazFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 413g

An analysis of the use made of five structuring devices, or motifs the Bildungsroman, the patriarchal prison, the fairy tale, sexual politics and gender trouble in a selection of representative women's novels from Spain and Latin America written between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781888155Author Luis Castellvi LaukampFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621965565Author Sergio FrancoFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 699g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881901486Author María del Mar López-CabralesFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon PressWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438450421Author Vanessa K. ValdesFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912399086Author Jane WhetnallFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Splash EditionsPublisher Splash EditionsWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223308997Author Jorges P LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Jorges P. LopezPublisher Jorges P. LopezWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581120585Author Christine Mary GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher Universal PublishersWeight(grams) 236g

An analysis of the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative fiction, Mapping the Amazon examines how widely read novels from twentieth-century South America attempted to map the region for readers. Authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648898341Author Julio MarzánFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734027105Author Jose Angel FigueroaFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Red Sugarcane PressPublisher Red Sugarcane PressWeight(grams) 152g

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Honorable Mention, 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association 2019 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Bringing Chicana/o studies into conversation with queer theory and transgender studies, Post-Borderlandia examines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814213506Author Christopher GonzalezFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

This volume is a collection of eight of the papers presented at The First Biennial Conference of The Latin American Consortium, entitled Narrative Practices and Cultural Discourse, held in 1990 at the University of Notre Dame. Taking a specific Latin...

Rebelling against bourgeois vacuity, the Beat writers and artists have long symbolized a spirit of freedom and radical democracy. Manuel Luis Martinez offers an eye-opening challenge to this characterization of the Beats, juxtaposing them against Chicano...