Hispanic & Latino

Since the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicano/a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicano/a literature and art. Building on the pioneering work of their predecessors, whose artistic creations...

Celebrating more than forty years of creative writing by Chicana author Margarita Cota-CArdenas, this volume includes critical essays, reflections, interviews, and previously unpublished writing by the author herself to document the lifelong craft and...

This innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements.Artist Raquel Valle-Senties's portraits bring visual...

Strategic Occidentalism examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship...

Several biographies of AmErico Paredes have been published over the last decade, yet they generally overlook the paradoxical nature of his life's work. Embarking on an in-depth, critical exploration of the significant body of work produced by Paredes,...

Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while...

Why are so many people attracted to narrative fiction? How do authors in this genre reframe experiences, people, and environments anchored to the real world without duplicating "real life"? In which ways does fiction differ from reality? What might...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558859647Author Montse FeuFormat PaperbackImprint Not AvailPublisher Not Avail

In her work as poet, essayist, editor, dramatist, and public intellectual, Chicana lesbian writer CherrIe Moraga has been extremely influential in current debates on culture and identity as an ongoing, open-ended process. Analyzing the "in-between"...

The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in the United States. In the years since then, new generations have asked new questions to cast light on this watershed era. No longer is...

Coming to prominence during the tropical booms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Putumayo has long been a site of mass immigration and exile, of subjugation and insurgency, and of violence. By way of a study of literature of and...

The vision of the South American rainforest as a wilderness of rank decay, poisonous insects, and bloodthirsty 'savages' in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book...

The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been transformed in Mexico from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Starting with the Porfiriato, Joshua Lund investigates the...

'American Tropics' refers to a kind of extended Caribbean, an area that includes the southern USA, the Atlantic littoral of Central America, the Caribbean islands, and northern South America. European colonial powers fought intensively here against...

Winner of the 2016 Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book PrizeSites of Translation illustrates the intricate rhetorical work that multilingual communicators engage in as they translate information for their communities. Blending ethnographic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816524273Author Charles M. TatumFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 347g

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729302067Author Ivy A. CorfisFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Tamesis BooksPublisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd

.Book InformationISBN 9780729302425Author Jose Luis Canet VallesFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Tamesis BooksPublisher Boydell & Brewer LtdWeight(grams) 1g

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...

Sarah H. Beckjord's Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernandez de...

.Book InformationISBN 9780900411687Author R.O. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Tamesis BooksPublisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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...

.Book InformationISBN 9780900411342Author J.E. VareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Tamesis BooksPublisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729301916Author James ValenderFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Tamesis BooksPublisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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...