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Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of "race" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and ……続きを見る

Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement……続きを見る

This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portr……続きを見る

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award ー Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and ci……続きを見る

Expressivity in Modern Poetry explores three interrelated subjects. The first is a general exposition of the radical or deeply realistic aspects of the poetry and visual arts of the modem period. Th……続きを見る

Hallazgo y traducción de poesía chilena es una colección de escrituras que traza más de cincuenta años de la carrera de Dave Oliphant, aficionado y traductor de la gran tradición de la poesía de Chi……続きを見る

In the nineteenth century, the island of Cuba was a popular site for US travelers, who wrote dozens of travelogues about their experiences. At the same time, Cuban exiles living in the United States……続きを見る

From the rise of the Pan-Maya Movement in Guatemala and the Zapatista uprising in Mexico to the Water and Gas Wars in Bolivia and the Idle No More movement in Canada, the turn of the twenty-first ce……続きを見る

In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both du……続きを見る

Paola Piacenza plantea en esta obra la posibilidad de leer los años sesenta en la Argentina a partir de la hipótesis de un "relato de formación" que caracteriza a la retórica de distintos discursos ……続きを見る

Un buen lector ーsegún Tzvetan Todorovー es un escritor pasivo: escribe en su mente un nuevo libro, su libro, construido a partir del diálogo entre lo que lee y lo que sabe, respeta, cree, ama, anhe……続きを見る

Unwriting Maya Literature provides an important decolonial framework for reading Maya texts that builds on the work of Maya authors and intellectuals such as Q’anjob’al Gaspar Pedro González and Kaq……続きを見る

This book explores representations of Obeah – a name used in the English/Creole-speaking Caribbean to describe various African-derived, syncretic Caribbean religious practices – across a range of pr……続きを見る

Infancias propone una exploración por la producción literaria de los hijos e hijas de las víctimas de la última dictadura argentina. Dos peculiaridades vuelven excepcional su aporte: la notable cant……続きを見る

Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building focuses on the processes of Puerto Rican national identity formation as seen through the historical development of cinema on the island between 1897 and……続きを見る

How did men become the stars of the Mexican intellectual scene? Dude Lit examines the tricks of the trade and reveals that sometimes literary genius rests on privileges that men extend one another a……続きを見る

Ce livre numérique présente Les Oeuvres Complètes de Guy de Maupassant avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) a marqué la littérature f……続きを見る

In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogen……続きを見る

A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness While philosophy has undertaken the work of a……続きを見る

Portuguese Literature and the Environment explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from Medieval times to the present. From the centrality of nature in Medieval po……続きを見る

This book explores representations of sentient-flesh ー flesh that holds consciousness of being ー in Puerto Rican women’s literature. It considers how different literary devices can participate in ……続きを見る

This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature’s greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of Wes……続きを見る

Throughout his political and military career, Omar Cabezas fought to transform Nicaragua, to implement the ethics that had led him to participate in the armed struggle against Anastasio Somoza’s reg……続きを見る

En 1938 todos nosotros éramos principiantes y lo que escribíamos era casi siempre un balbuceo, aunque ese balbuceo no careciese de emoción y de profundidad en ciertos casos, como el de Revueltas. Pe……続きを見る

In the seventeenth century, even as the Spanish Habsburg monarchy entered its irreversible decline, the capital of its most important overseas territory was flourishing. Nexus of both Atlantic and P……続きを見る

Modernidad sublimada ambiciona articular una respuesta teórica a las singularidades artísticas y políticas que sostiene la producción cultural de la región rioplatense. El estudio del dramaturgo uru……続きを見る

Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide attention to ……続きを見る

Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts traces the existence of a now largely forgotten history of inter-American alliance-making, transnational community formation, and intercultural collaboration betwe……続きを見る

Winner, 2021 NACCS Book Award, given by the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies Explores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fictio……続きを見る

This book discusses new developments of plant studies and plant theory in the humanities and compares them to the exceptionally robust knowledge about plant life in indigenous traditions practiced t……続きを見る