Hispanic & Latino

Since its first publication more than fifteen years ago, Literature Against Itself has achieved wide recognition as the first major critique of post-1960s cultural radicalism-and still, one of the best. In it, Gerald Graff argues that the reigning...

Catalonia's towering Romantic poet and rebel priest, Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902), delves deep into the Catalan imaginary in his foundational long poem Mount Canigo (1886), recounting the historical and legendary mix, bothtragic and triumphant, of the...

This poem-by-poem guide to Lorca's Romancero gitano was prompted by the need for some form of guidance to the overwhelming amount of critical material published on the book, the relative neglect or misunderstanding of certain poems and a concern to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816519286Author Barcley OwensFormat PaperbackPage Count 137Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 224g

Magical realism is often regarded as a regional trend, restricted to the Latin American writers who popularized it as a literary form. In this critical anthology, the first of its kind, editors Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris show magical...

First Place Winner of the 2015 International Latino Book Award for Best Latino Focused Nonfiction BookLiterary history is a history of reading. What happens during the act of reading is the subject of the branch of literary scholarship known as...

The Libro de Alexandre is an epic poem about the life of Alexander the Great, written by an anonymous Spanish cleric in the thirteenth century. It is the most substantial poem (and almost certainly the first) composed in the learned cuaderna via...

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth century does not merely create a bridge between the US and Latin American countries, peoples, and literatures,...

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...

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...

Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolano, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction. Chapters provide important new insights into the new...

The volume includes a prologue and an epilogue. Each chapter constitutes an extensive interview with one of these colleagues. Chapter one (Mignolo): colonial and postcolonial dimensions since the Early Modern / colonial period (circa 1500) and the legacy...

A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Illuminations series.Book InformationISBN 9780822948391Author Ncolas CampisiFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh Press

Between 1850 and 1920 women's travel and travel writing underwent an explosion. It was an exciting period in the history of travel, a golden age. While transportation had improved, mass tourism had not yet robbed journeys of their aura of adventure...

Geographies of Relation offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands texts and performances that considers the inseparability of race, ethnicity, and gender in imagining and enacting social change. Theresa Delgadillo crosses interdisciplinary...

This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the cronica genre to advance their literary preoccupations. Through a variety of modernista writers, including Jose Marti, Amado...

Between 1850 and 1920 women's travel and travel writing underwent an explosion. It was an exciting period in the history of travel, a golden age. While transportation had improved, mass tourism had not yet robbed journeys of their aura of adventure...

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...

Mariano Siskind's groundbreaking debut book redefines the scope of world literature, particularly regarding the place of Latin America in its imaginaries and mappings. In Siskind's formulation, world literature is a modernizing discursive strategy, a way...

Esta compilacion reune mas de treinta articulos de distinguidos hispanistas de varios paises, todos ellos antiguos amigos y colegas de Alfredo A. Roggiano, a quien dedican sus colaboraciones en homenaje a la labor en beneficio del hispanismo que ha hecho...

Thinking en espanol captures conversations with leading Chicana and Chicano literary critics. This unique book consists of interviews with founding members of Chicano criticism conducted by the author, Jesus Rosales, who, through his conversations with...

11 studies comparing the Elizabethan/Stuart/Jacobean theatre tradition with Spanish Golden Age theatre. The many parallels between the Spanish Golden Age theatre and the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Stuart theatre of England are arousing growing interest...

New Mexico's master storyteller creates a southwestern version of the Arabian Nights in this fable set in seventeenth-century Santa Fe. In January 1680 a dozen Pueblo Indians are charged with conspiring to incite a revolution against the colonial...

Since colonial times, Chicano/a literature has varied with the authors' assumptions about the class and gender of their audiences, the linguistic choices available for literary communication, the geographic mobility of writers and readers, and the tastes...

An analysis of the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative fiction, Mapping the Amazon examines how widely read novels from twentieth-century South America attempted to map the region for readers. Authors...

Just as mariners use triangulation, mapping an imaginary triangle between two known positions and an unknown location, so, David J. Vazquez contends, Latino authors in late twentieth-century America employ the coordinates of familiar ideas of self to...

This Book marks a time period (1870s-1940s) when Mexican authors writing in English saw themselves as transnational authors whose role was to teach the English speaking public about Mexico. This book takes a look at four inspiring women whose ideas...

"A well-theorized and provocative study that offers a much needed sustained focus on the impact of class through reification on Chicano identity . . . [and] a valuable contribution to ongoing debates about critical paradigms in Chicana/o studies,...

Although investigations of Hispanic popular culture were approached for decades as part of folklore studies, in recent years scholarly explorations-of lucha libre, telenovelas, comic strips, comedy, baseball, the novela rosa and the detective novel,...

"A well-theorized and provocative study that offers a much needed sustained focus on the impact of class through reification on Chicano identity . . . [and] a valuable contribution to ongoing debates about critical paradigms in Chicana/o studies,...

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...

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"...

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...

Costa Rica is a country known internationally for its eco-credentials, dazzling coastlines, and reputation as one of the happiest and most peaceful nations on earth. Beneath this facade, however, lies an exclusionary rhetoric of nationalism bound up in...

'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...

World-renowned scholar, writer, and American intellectual Norma Elia Cantu's autobiographical book Canicula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera has achieved tremendous success. Winner of the Premio Aztlan Literary Prize, it is used in high school and...

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...