Hispanic & Latino

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,...

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...

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...

Alurista. Gary Soto. Bernice Zamora. Jose Montoya. These names, luminous to some, remain unknown to those who have not yet discovered the rich variety of late twentieth century Chicano poetry. With the flowering of the Chicano Movement in the...

The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish...

2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which transferred more than a third of Mexico’s territory to the United States, deferred full U.S. citizenship for Mexican Americans but promised, “in the mean time,” to protect...

High state official and judge of the Supreme Court or the Segunda Audiencia, and later first bishop of the state of Michoacan, Vasco de Quiroga is still celebrated for the alternative community models he established for the Purepecha Indians in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825352158Author Marc PrieweFormat HardbackPage Count 267Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 4119g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978827868Author Israel ReyesFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 156g

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...

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...

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138985735Author Paul A. SchroederFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 358g

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...

Available in paperback for the first time, this book brings an original and innovative approach to a much-misunderstood aspect of the Cuban Revolution: the place of literature and the creation of a literary culture. Based on over 100 interviews with a...

Capitalism and its Discontents presents a series of interpretative essays on a number of key modern and contemporary Latin American novels and films. The overarching theme in the essays is the relation between such textual materials and their regional...

This is a timely book that, through an insightful exploration of recent art (literary and visual texts) created by members of the Latinx community, places emphasis on social bonds and forms of conviviality that run counter to contemporary anti-Latinx...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496224132Author Jose F ArandaFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978827851Author Israel ReyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Since its publication in 1929, the story of Dona Barbara has haunted the collective Latin-American imagination, and has been adapted variously both for the small and big screen. Dona Barbara Unleashed explores how Romulo Gallegos's original story has...

Thresholds of Illiteracy reevaluates Latin American theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the concept of "illiteracy" as a new critical approach to understanding scenes or moments of social antagonism...

In this innovative study, Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins, John Blair Gamber examines urbanity and the results of urban living-traffic, garbage, sewage, waste, and pollution-arguing for a new recognition of all forms of human detritus as part of...

Professor Fraker argues that the "Celestina", however original or singular, does not embody a new discourse, and falls easily within the literary norms of its time. Thus on the one hand it belongs to a genre, comedy, the term taken in a sense...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729300247Author Ian MacPhersonFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Tamesis BooksPublisher Boydell & Brewer LtdWeight(grams) 450g

The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Diaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary...

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 LtdWeight(grams) 384g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729302425Author Joan Oleza-SimoFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Tamesis BooksPublisher Boydell & Brewer LtdWeight(grams) 662g

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,...

The many lenses of racism through which the white imagination sees Mexicans and Chicanos Historically, ideas of whiteness and Americanness have been built on the backs of racialized communities. The legacy of anti-Mexican stereotypes stretches back...

Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor is one of the major literary accomplishments of the Iberian middle ages, and has generated an extensive secondary bibliography. Its uniqueness and diversity have thrilled and perplexed readers, and its influence continues...

Daring, innovative, controversial, often satirical, a dramatist ahead of his time, Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936) was one of Spain's 'Generation of 1898', and an influence on such later movements as the Theatre of Cruelty and the Theatre of the...

En 1639 el escribano madrileno Juan Garcia de Albertos fue nombrado Escribano de la Comision de las comedias. Sus protocolos notariales contienen mas de 2.000 escrituras relacionadas con actores y actividad teatral de 1634 a 1660. Esta riquisima...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729300100Author A. Gordon KinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Tamesis BooksPublisher Boydell & Brewer LtdWeight(grams) 324g

In Junot Diaz: On the Half-Life of Love, Jose David Saldivar offers a critical examination of one of the leading American writers of his generation. He explores Diaz's imaginative work and the diasporic and immigrant world he inhabits, showing how his...

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

A shift of global proportions occurred in May 1808. Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain and deposed the Spanish king. Overnight, the Hispanic world was transformed forever. Hispanics were forced to confront modernity, and to look beyond monarchy and...

The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish...

This volume, documenting the linguistic and cultural diversity of Latino literary output in the United States, offers an exciting introduction for non-specialist readers. Unique in its scope and perspective, it focuses on various literary genres, and...

The focus of this book falls less on performance and more on how the playtext may be approached from a theatrical viewpoint. In the theatre, the playtext, addressed traditionally to the theatre professional rather than the average reader, is usually read...