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Out of the Margins: Identity Formation in Contemporary Chicana Writings by Ewa Alicja Antoszek 9783631633205
RRP: $54.05Booksplease Price: $45.82The question of identity has been present in Chicana literature since its beginnings and the second part of the 20th century witnessed proliferation of works by Chicanas addressing this issue. Those... -
The Music of Her Rivers: Poems by Renny Golden 9780826360779
Booksplease Price: $21.45The Music of Her Rivers pays homage to the rivers that taught the poet--the Rio Grande and the Chicago and Illinois Rivers. Sharp-eyed and empathetic, Golden serves as a witness, documenting place,... -
Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature: Explorations of Place and Belonging by Maya Socolovsky 9780813561189
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $115.35This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of... -
The Pleasures of Babel: Contemporary American Literature and Theory by Jay Clayton 9780195083736
RRP: $81.27Booksplease Price: $77.49The Pleasures of Babel acquaints the layperson and the expert alike with the creative and intellectual achievements of America's multicultural society. Arguing that the present is "a great... -
The Shattered Mirror: Representations of Women in Mexican Literature by Mar ia Elena de Valdes 9780292715905
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Popular images of women in Mexico-conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television-were long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized... -
Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers by Jeanne Campbell Reesman 9780820337982
RRP: $52.83Booksplease Price: $41.31Exploring a variety of writers over an array of time periods, subject matter, race and ethnicity, sexual preference, tradition, genre, and style, this volume represents the fruits of the dramatic and... -
Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men: Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature by Mary Paniccia Carden 9781611485097
Booksplease Price: $66.69At a moment in which America seems simultaneously more closed and more open to change than ever before, Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men: Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature... -
Developments: Encounters of Formation in the Latin American and Hispanic/Latino Bildungsroman by Alejandro Latinez 9781433119415
RRP: $78.30Booksplease Price: $70.02Developments: Encounters of Formation in the Latin American and Hispanic/Latino Bildungsroman, a notable contribution for students and scholars of Latin American, Brazilian, Hispanic and Latino... -
Uneasy Alliance: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography by Hans Bak 9789042016118
Booksplease Price: $137.36Uneasy Alliance illuminates the recent search in literary studies for a new interface between textual and contextual readings. Written in tribute to G.A.M. Janssens, the twenty-one essays in the... -
Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation by Sorcha Gunne 9780415896689
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $59.44The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these... -
Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico Coloring Book: A Coloring Book for Kids and Adults by 9781595349651
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.72The first coloring book celebrating more than five hundred years of Latina trailblazers from Texas and Mexico. Inspired by the book by the same title and by popular demand from its readers, this... -
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years by Joy Harjo
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.59Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks "from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all"... -
An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba by Ruth Behar
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.73Yiddish-speaking Jews thought Cuba was supposed to be a mere layover on the journey to the United States when they arrived in the island country in the 1920s. They even called it 'Hotel Cuba'. But as... -
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems by Joy Harjo 9780393248500
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $22.34In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and... -
Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions by A. Robert Lee 9781578066452
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In the United States, Ishmael Reed, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ralph Ellison, N. Scott Momaday, Toni Morrison, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Jessica Hagedorn are among the... -
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jorge Luis Borges Jos� Eduardo Gonz�lez 9781603296847
Booksplease Price: $40.25Essays on teaching a major Latin American writerOften considered a writer who transcends national borders, Jorge Luis Borges also aimed to reinvent the history and traditions of his own country,... -
Latino Literature in America by Bridget Kevane 9780313317934
Booksplease Price: $73.10There is growing awareness of the tremendous impact Latino writers have had on the recent literary scene, yet not all readers have the background to fully appreciate the merits and meanings of works... -
Freeman's Change by John Freeman
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The Covid-19 pandemic forced many of us to reimagine our homes, work, relationships and adapt to a new way of life - one with far fewer possibilities for interaction. And yet, in this period of... -
(Out)Classed Women: Contemporary Chicana Writers on Inequitable Gendered Power Relations by Phillipa Kafka 9780313311239
Booksplease Price: $98.70Like so many other ethnic groups, Chicanos and Chicanas have suffered from political, social, and economic oppression in the United States. In addition to the problems they endure as a consequence of... -
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jorge Luis Borges Jos� Eduardo Gonz�lez 9781603296830
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $89.87Essays on teaching a major Latin American writerOften considered a writer who transcends national borders, Jorge Luis Borges also aimed to reinvent the history and traditions of his own country,... -
The Chicano Movement: A Historical Exploration of Literature by Sara E. Martinez 9781610697071
Booksplease Price: $79.50This book furthers appreciation of key pieces in American literature from the Chicano Movement by placing them in the context of history, society, and culture. Part of Greenwood's new Historical... -
The Postmodern Short Story: Forms and Issues by Farhat Iftekharrudin 9780313323751
Booksplease Price: $67.09Short stories are usually defined in terms of characteristics of modernism, in which the story begins in the middle, develops according to a truncated plot, and ends with an epiphany. This approach... -
Corazon Abierto: Mexican American Voices in Texas Music by Kathleen A. Hudson
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27Corazon Abierto: Mexican American Voices in Texas Music provides a wide view of the myriad contributions Mexican American artists have made to music in Texas and the United States. Based on... -
Calling the Soul Back: Embodied Spirituality in Chicanx Narrative by Christina Garcia Lopez
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Spirituality has consistently been present in the political and cultural counternarratives of Chicanx literature. Calling the Soul Back focuses on the embodied aspects of a spirituality integrating... -
Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity by David J. Vazquez 9780816673278
Booksplease Price: $36.21Just 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... -
All My Relatives: Community in Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures by Bonnie TuSmith 9780472082858
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $31.14All My Relatives challenges the prevailing notion that the work of all American writers reflects a sense of determined individualism. Highlighting works by Frank Chin, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong... -
My Amputations: A Novel by Clarence Major 9781573661430
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50Originally published in 1986, this is a work of American fiction.About the AuthorClarence Major is a prize-winning poet, novelist, painter, and a Bronze Medal finalist for the National Book Award... -
Crowding Out Latinos by Marco Portales
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27In this groundbreaking analysis, Marco Portales examines the way in which education and the media act as immobilizing social forces to shape the Latino world that exists despite the best efforts of... -
Poems of the American South by David Biespiel 9781841597959
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly... -
Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives by Kathy Sosa 9781595349255
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15Much ink has been spilled over the men of the Mexican Revolution, but far less has been written about its women. Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark, and Jennifer Speed set out to right this wrong in... -
Beating the Odds: A Teen Guide to 75 Superstars Who Overcame Adversity by Mary Ellen Snodgrass 9780313345647
Booksplease Price: $92.69Many famous people have overcome difficult circumstances and gone on to become successful in their fields. This book profiles the lives of 75 courageous and persistent people who have triumphed over... -
U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers by Margarite Fernandez Olmos 9780313311376
Booksplease Price: $85.90In the past ten years, literature by U.S. Latinos has gained an extraordinary public currency and has engendered a great deal of interest among educators. Because of the increase in numbers of... -
Luis Leal: An Auto/Biography by Mario T. Garcia 9780292728295
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Professor Luis Leal is one of the most outstanding scholars of Mexican, Latin American, and Chicano literatures and the dean of Mexican American intellectuals in the United States. He was one of the... -
Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art by Debra J. Blake
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $115.97Since the 1980s Chicana writers including Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva have reworked iconic Mexican cultural symbols such as mother earth... -
American Literary Minimalism by Robert C. Clark
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $42.96Although a handful of books and articles have been written about American literary minimalism during the last forty years, the mode remains misunderstood. When in a 2011 interview in The Paris Review... -
Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary by Mary Jo Bona 9781498525855
Booksplease Price: $111.88Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary performs a ground-breaking intervention by uncovering the relationship between literary cloth-working women and migration in a range... -
![How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Understanding Literature, from The Great Gatsby to The Hate You Give Thomas C Foster 9780063307742](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4693700/8649376/9780063307742__23251.1743246690.jpg?c=1 "How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Understanding Literature, from The Great Gatsby to The Hate You Give Thomas C Foster 9780063307742")
How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Understanding Literature, from The Great Gatsby to The Hate You Give Thomas C Foster 9780063307742
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of... -
![Democracy in Print: The Best of ""The Progressive"" Magazine, 1909-2009 by Matthew Rothschild 9780299232245](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2172492/2171844/9780299232245__66244.1709383504.jpg?c=1 "Democracy in Print: The Best of ""The Progressive"" Magazine, 1909-2009 by Matthew Rothschild 9780299232245")
Democracy in Print: The Best of ""The Progressive"" Magazine, 1909-2009 by Matthew Rothschild 9780299232245
Booksplease Price: $26.61From Addams to Zinn, a century of voices is speaking out on war, peace, human rights, labor, and democracy. ""Democracy in Print"" captures many of the most influential voices from a century of... -
Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture by Rafael Perez-Torres
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50Focusing on the often unrecognized role race plays in expressions of Chicano culture, Mestizaje is a provocative exploration of the volatility and mutability of racial identities. In this important... -
Catching the Light by Joy Harjo 9780300274066
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $9.82National Humanities Medalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing "Her enduring message-that writing can be...