Hispanic & Latino

Author of The House on Mango Street, which has sold more than two million copies in English alone, activist, MacArthur grant genius, figure of inspiration and controversy, Sandra Cisneros is unequivocally one of America's most important and much...

A family seated round the fireplace Singing and making merry; A sprightly waltz played with grace Noche Buena brings us all the magic of the Christmas season as seen through the eyes of the Hispanic Americans who celebrate it. Christmas is at times a...

Herencia (meaning "inheritance" or "heritage") is the first anthology to bring together literature from the entire history of Hispanic writing in the United States, from the age of exploration to the present. The product of a ten-year project involving...

A compelling exploration of materiality and semiotics in Latinx inscriptions Writers and artists from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Latinx New York operate under the pressures of inscription: the material and semiotic entanglement of making a mark as a marked...

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A compelling exploration of materiality and semiotics in Latinx inscriptions Writers and artists from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Latinx New York operate under the pressures of inscription: the material and semiotic entanglement of making a mark as a marked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498570282Author Crescencio Lopez-GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

The Life of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun: An Early Modern Autobiography examines Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alferez as a form of autobiography through a comparative study with early-modern secular life narratives: the picaresque novels La vida...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682830710Author Vanessa de Veritch WoodsideFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Texas Tech University PressPublisher Texas Tech University...

This book investigates the elements of contradiction, subversion and ambiguity inhabiting major works of Espronceda, Larra, Rivas and Zorrilla and reveals the politics of their literature through an examination of the cultural context. The book presents...

The Latinx Urban Condition brings together interdisciplinary cultural theory and U.S. Latinx urban literature into conversation, focusing on the realities and urban experiences of Latinx living in major cities in the United States from the 1960s to the...

A necessary reconceptualization of Latinx identity, literature, and politics In Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604978759Author Cristina HerreraFormat HardbackImprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425762148Author Zoe Jimenez CorretjerFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813948065Author Cristina RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams)...

In Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century, Tace Hedrick illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and commodification shape the genre of "chica lit," popular fiction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951308585Author Jose Manuel Fradejas-RuedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint King's College London Centre for Late Antique andPublisher King's College...

Contributors: Samuel G. Armistead, Roger Boase, Charles Burnett, Alan Deyermond, John Edwards, Brenda Fish, T.J. Gorton, Richard Hitchcock, David Hook, Francisco Marcos Marin, Ralph Penny, Barry Taylor, Roger M. Walker, Milija PavlovicBook...

Literary criticism situated within the Southwest borderlands, exploring embodiment and ethics, place and landscape, memory and haunting.Book InformationISBN 9781682831250Author Cordelia E. BarreraFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Texas Tech Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395765289Author Harold AugenbraumFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 730g

New Mexico's first Franciscan priest, Fray Angelico Cheavez (1910-1996) is known as a prolific historian, a literary and artistic figure, and an intellectual who played a vital role in Santa Fe's community of writers. The original essays collected here...

Volume 157 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891575Author Juan Bautista Avalle-ArceFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The...

Miguel de Quintana was among those arriving in New Mexico with Diego de Vargas in 1694. He was active in his village of Santa Cruz de la Canada, where he was a notary and secretary to the alcalde mayor, functioning as a quasi-attorney. Being unusually...

Articles by: Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce, William D. Ilgen, Luis Leal, Cyril A. Jones, Luis Monguilo, Donald F. Fogelquist, James A. Castaneda, Allen W. Phillips, Ivan A. Schulman, Philip Metzidakis, Enrique Pupo-Walker, Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo, Andrew P...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825361464Author Christin FreyerFormat HardbackPage Count 281Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 376g

Poetics of Race constitutes a critically and theoretically innovative analysis of racial and ethnic dynamics in Latin America, and their symbolic - artistic, ideological - representation. The book illustrates the relevance of cultural and racial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496229106Author Jose F ArandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams) 152g

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 their property and liberty...

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...

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...

Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. Extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which...

Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. Extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which...

Offering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. In doing so,...

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...

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...

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. "Illiteracy," Acosta claims,...

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...

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