Hispanic & Latino

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...

Speaking the Earth's Languages brings together for the first time critical discussions of postcolonial poetics from Australia and Chile. The book crosses multiple languages, landscapes, and disciplines, and draws on a wide range of both oral and written...

Slender and yet panoramic in scope, historical and yet relevant to current-day concerns, Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate has provoked from the outset a divergent range of critical opinions. The essays in A Recipe for Discourse: Perspectives on...

Chicano/a fiction is often understood as a literature of resistance to the dominant U.S. Anglo culture and society. But reducing this rich literary production to a single, binary opposition distorts it in fundamental ways. It conflates literature with...

A rogues' gallery of Mexican bandits, bombshells, lotharios, and thieves saturates American popular culture. Remember Speedy Gonzalez? "Mexican Spitfire" Lupe Velez? The Frito Bandito? Familiar and reassuring-at least to Anglos-these Mexican stereotypes...

Common conceptions permeating U.S. ethnic queer theory tend to confuse aesthetics with real-world acts and politics. Often Chicano/a representations of gay and lesbian experiences in literature and film are analyzed simply as propaganda. The cognitive,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878055722Author Feroza JussawallaFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint University Press of MississippiPublisher University Press of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825347284Author Rebecca SchaferFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 3900g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487585334Author Mario ValdesFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 331g

A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros. Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954), author of the acclaimed novel The House on Mango Street and a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur "Genius Grant" and...

During the past two decades, literary issues such as multiculturalism, gender, borders and border crossing, and the development of personal, cultural, and alternative identities have become increasingly important. The same years have seen the flourishing...

Offers a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, movements, genres, and historical turning points in Latino literature.More than 60 million Latinos currently live in the United States. Yet contributions from writers who trace their heritage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682832431Author Vanessa de Veritch WoodsideFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Texas Tech University PressPublisher Texas Tech University Press

This is the first book to address head-on the question of how Latino/a literature wrestles with the pan-ethnic and trans-racial implications of the "Latino" label. Refusing to take latinidad (Latino-ness) for granted, Marta Caminero-Santangelo...

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From today's vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of...

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

Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.Finalist for the 2015 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions presented by...

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 Dissertation.comPublisher Dissertation.comWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)...

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

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814213858Author Stephanie FettaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 513g

This interdisciplinary study explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to actively claim their own histories. Through "negotiation"-a concept that accounts for...

Delmira Agustini (1886-1914) has been acclaimed as one of the foremost modernistas and the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Critics and the reading public alike were immediately taken by the originality and power of her verse,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425762193Author Zoe Jimenez CorretjerFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 399g

Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identities, and sometimes pushed to the edge by authorities who seek to restrict their freedom. As this...

Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identities, and sometimes pushed to the edge by authorities who seek to restrict their freedom. As this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313250774Author Lorraine Elena RosesFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941720366Author Isaac ChavarriaFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Slough PressPublisher Slough PressWeight(grams) 127g