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Americo Paredes: Culture and Critique by Jose Eduardo Limon 9780292756823
RRP: €23.79€20.87Several 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,... -
Of Space and Mind: Cognitive Mappings of Contemporary Chicano/a Fiction by Patrick L. Hamilton 9780292743977
RRP: €23.79€20.87Chicano/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... -
Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueno del Retorno by Nicolas Kanellos 9780292743946
RRP: €23.79€20.87Immigration 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... -
A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction by Frederick Luis Aldama 9780292725775
RRP: €19.03€16.95Why 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... -
Chicano Poetry: A Response to Chaos by Juan Bruce-Novoa 9780292710924
RRP: €23.79€20.87Alurista. 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... -
Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature by Gayle Rogers 9780231178563
RRP: €65.45€51.06The 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... -
In the Mean Time: Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition by Erin Murrah-Mandril 9781496237477
RRP: €28.55€24.802020 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... -
Good Places and Non-Places in Colonial Mexico: The Figure of Vasco de Quiroga (1470D1565) by Fernando Gómez 9780761819240
€116.99High 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... -
Writing Transit: Refiguring National Imaginaries in Chicana/O Narratives by Marc Priewe 9783825352158
€76.83Apologies 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 -
Embodied Economies: Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and Theater by Israel Reyes 9781978827868
RRP: €147.56€127.38Apologies 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 -
The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherrie Moraga by Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano 9780292796089
RRP: €23.79€20.87In 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... -
"Shakin' Up" Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965-1995) by Marta Ester Sanchez 9780292709652
RRP: €23.79€20.87The 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... -
Tomas Gutierrez Alea: The Dialectics of a Filmmaker by Paul A. Schroeder 9781138985735
RRP: €55.92€48.75First 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 -
Mestizo State: Reading Race in Modern Mexico by Joshua Lund 9780816656370
RRP: €26.17€22.84The 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... -
Literary Culture in Cuba: Revolution, Nation-Building and the Book Par Kumaraswami 9780719099953
RRP: €35.70€25.36Available 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: Power and Accumulation in Latin-American Culture John Kraniauskas 9781783169542
RRP: €65.45€53.17Capitalism 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... -
Cosmopolitan Strangers in US Latinx Literature and Culture: Building Bridges, Not Walls by Esther Álvarez-López 9781032231600
RRP: €148.75€128.35This 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... -
The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948 by Jose F Aranda
RRP: €97.58€84.80Apologies 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 -
Embodied Economies: Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and Theater by Israel Reyes
RRP: €33.31€28.73Apologies 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 -
Dona Barbara Unleashed: From Venezuelan Plains to International Screen Jenni M. Lehtinen 9781786836861
RRP: €77.35€65.39Since 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: Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance by Abraham Acosta
RRP: €83.30€71.77Thresholds 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... -
Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins: Waste and Contamination in Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures by John Blair Gamber
RRP: €46.41€40.60In 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... -
Celestina - Genre and Rhetoric by Charles F. Fraker
RRP: €71.40€68.01Professor 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... -
Juan Manuel Studies by Ian MacPherson
RRP: €95.20€91.64Apologies 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 -
Junot Diaz and the Decolonial Imagination by Monica Hanna
RRP: €30.93€27.24The 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... -
Diego de San Pedro`s `Carcel de Amor` - A Critical Edition by Ivy A. Corfis
RRP: €71.40€68.01Apologies 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 -
Teatro y Practicas Escenicas - II - La Comedia by Joan Oleza-Simo
RRP: €71.40€68.48Apologies 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 -
Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity by Frederick Luis Aldama
RRP: €19.03€16.95Common 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,... -
Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White by Lee Bebout
RRP: €28.55€24.80The 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... -
Libro de Buen Amor Studies by G.B.Gybbon- Monypenny
RRP: €83.30€80.02Juan 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... -
The Dramatic World of Valle-Inclan by Robert Lima
RRP: €113.05€108.39Daring, 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... -
Actividad teatral en la region de Madrid segun l - Estudio y documentos : Documents 250-422, appendices etc. by Charles Davis
RRP: €83.30€80.49En 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... -
Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America by William Anthony Nericcio
RRP: €26.17€22.84A 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... -
Casiodoro de Reina - Spanish Reformer of the Sixteenth Century by A. Gordon Kinder
RRP: €83.30€80.02Apologies 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 -
Junot Diaz: On the Half-Life of Love by Jose David Saldivar
RRP: €98.77€85.81In 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... -
Studies in Spanish Literature of the Golden Age: Presented to Edward M. Wilson R.O. Jones 9780900411687
RRP: €71.40€68.48.Book InformationISBN 9780900411687Author R.O. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Tamesis BooksPublisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd -
A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture by Raul Coronado
RRP: €32.07€25.95A 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... -
Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature by Gayle Rogers
RRP: €26.18€20.66The 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... -
A Companion to US Latino Literatures by Carlota Caulfield
RRP: €23.79€20.96This 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... -
Reading for the Stage - Calderon and his Contemporaries by Isaac Benabu
RRP: €95.20€91.17The 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...