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La magia, como un elemento disruptivo, que ensancha el marco perceptivo, epistémico o cognoscitivo del hombre, ha estado presente también en sus manifestaciones artísticas. Durante siglos, la litera……続きを見る

Futuring Black Lives is a historical ethnography examining Black institution builders in the late 1960s and early 1970s and their work to leverage the power of publications and the literary imaginat……続きを見る

A New York Times Notable Book A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year A moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awardsーnow……続きを見る

Este libro presenta un relato histórico de prácticas teatrales en América Latina, desde la Colonia hasta el presente; las más relevantes y otras que se han considerado marginales o pasaron inadverti……続きを見る

PROSE Awards Literature Subject Category Winner, 2020 In the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with ……続きを見る

Presenting a new way of thinking about the practice of writing fiction for Black writers and any writer who includes non-white characters in their work, The Black Writer's Toolbox is a practical gui……続きを見る

Oceanic Connections is a first-of-its-kind comparative study of Anglophone Irish and Caribbean poets who write widely about the sea, revealing the similarities across the poetic traditions of both r……続きを見る

Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016), a prominent Latina writer, was, among various recognitions, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1989 first novel, The Line of the Sun (Georgia); awarded the covete……続きを見る

El surrealismo de Piedra de sol, entre peras y manzanas nos hace ver los trasfondos en que fue presentada la edición de uno de los poemas más importantes de la lengua española y, en particular, de l……続きを見る

Poeta, editor y ensayista, Víctor Manuel Mendiola nos ofrece en estas páginas un retrato detallado de la obra de Xavier Villaurrutia, al tiempo que un mural grupal de los Contemporáneos. Este ensayo……続きを見る

En el año 2000, y con motivo del cincuentenario de la publicación de El laberinto de la soledad, la Fundación Octavio Paz y el Fondo de Cultura Económica organizaron un coloquio en el que participó ……続きを見る

Premio al Mejor Libro en Humanidades, Latin American Studies Association–Nineteenth-Century Section, 2025 Premio Victoria Urbano de Monografía Crítica, Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2……続きを見る

Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Honorable Mention, 2016 Born between 1568 and 1580, Alva Ixtlilxochitl was a direct descendant of Ixtlilxochitl I and Ixtlilxochitl II, w……続きを見る

At a time in which many in the United States see Spanish America as a distinct and, for some, threatening culture clearly differentiated from that of Europe and the US, it may be of use to look at t……続きを見る

Winner of the 2024 Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, New England Council for Latin American Studies (NECLAS) In the early twentieth century, historical imaginings of Japan contributed to the Argentine……続きを見る

Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of ……続きを見る

LAJSA Book Award Winner, 2017, Latin American Jewish Studies Association As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, an epochal realignment of the social order occurred. In this period of chan……続きを見る

Martin Luis Guzman was many things throughout his career in twentieth-century Mexico: a soldier in Pancho Villa's revolutionary army, a journalist-in-exile, one of the most esteemed novelists and sc……続きを見る

In the last couple of decades there has been a surge of interest in Octavio Paz's life and work, and a number of important books have been published on Paz. However, most of these books are of a bio……続きを見る

Violence has only increased in Mexico since 2000: 23,000 murders were recorded in 2016, and 29,168 in 2017. The abundance of laws and constitutional amendments that have cropped up in response are m……続きを見る

PROSE Awards Subject Category FinalistーBiological Anthropology, Ancient History, and Archaeology, 2021 Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Sect……続きを見る

Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section Moral electricityーa term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describ……続きを見る

Why has the work of writers in eighteenth-century Latin America been forgotten? During the eighteenth century, enlightened thinkers in Spanish territories in the Americas engaged in lively exchanges……続きを見る

“We, the Barbarians” embarks on a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction: Yuri Herrera, Fernanda Melchor, and Valeria Luiselli. O……続きを見る

Reflexiones y Poesía es una obra dotada de fuerza emocional, amor y pensamiento crítico. Cada poema crea una imagen distinta que transita desde el amor hasta la reflexión sobre la actualidad, a trav……続きを見る

Writers in Brazil and Mexico discovered early on that speculative fiction provides an ideal platform for addressing the complex issues of modernity, yet the study of speculative fictions rarely stra……続きを見る

Traditional histories of Black letters in Latin America have delimited their geographic scope to the Caribbean while also omitting intertwined Afro-Indigenous discourses. Inspired by the legacy of A……続きを見る

The fourteen essays in Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and Spain showcase the eye-opening potential of a food lens within colonial studies, ethnic and racial studies, gender and sexuality……続きを見る

Honorable Mention, Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Modern Language Association, 2023 Honorable Mention, Premio al Mejor Libro en Humanidades, Latin American Studies Association–Mexico Section, 2025 N……続きを見る

Premio al Mejor Libro en Humanidades, Latin American Studies Association–Mexico Section, 2025 Honorable Mention, LASA Environment Best Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association–Environment Sect……続きを見る