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  • Rite, Flesh, and Stone

    The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture

    by Eugenia Afinoguénova, Pedro Aguilera-Mellado, Ana Fernández-Cebrián, Patty Keller, Angel G. Loureiro, Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Annabel Martín, Jordi Moreras, N. Michelle Murray, Layla Renshaw, Elizabeth Scarlett, Sol Tarrés, William Viestenz ...
    Series series Hispanic Issue
    Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning. With this in mind, Rite, Flesh, and Stone proposes cultural matters of death as its structuring principle, operating as frames of the expression of mortality within a distinct set of coordinates. The chapters offer original approaches to how human ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Baroque Horrors

    Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

    by David Castillo ...
    "David Castillo takes us on a tour of some horrific materials that have rarely been considered together. He sheds a fantastical new light on the baroque."---Anthony J. Cascardi, University of California Berkeley"Baroque Horrors is a textual archeologist's dream, scavenged from obscure chronicles, manuals, minor histories, and lesser-known works of major artists. Castillo finds tales of mutilation, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Mestizo State

    Reading Race in Modern Mexico

    by Joshua Lund ...
    The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been transformed in Mexico from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Starting with the Porfiriato, Joshua Lund investigates the rise of a racialized “mestizo state,” its reinvention after the Mexican Revolution, and its mobilization as a critical lever that would act both on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Beyond Bolaño

    The Global Latin American Novel

    by Héctor Hoyos ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

    Edited by Sara Castro-Klaren ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE“The work contains a wealth of information that must surely provide the basic material for a number of study modules. It should find a place on the library shelves of all institutions where Latin American studies form part of the curriculum.”Reference Review“In short, this is a fascinating panoply that goes from a reevaluation of pre-Columbian ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect

    A Collection

    by Rudyard Alcocer, Nicholas Birns, Juan De Castro, William Flores, Edith Grossman, Zhanna Gurvich, Regina Janes, María del Mar López-Cabrales, Haley Osborn, Rubén Pelayo, Robert L. Sims, Olivia Vázquez-Medina, Marcela Velasco, Héctor Hoyos, Fernando Valerio-Holguín, Michael Wood, Professor Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel laureate’s cultural contexts and influences, his variety of themes, and his formidable legacy ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Liberty, Individuality, and Democracy in Jorge Luis Borges

    by Alejandra M. Salinas ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    This book seeks to fill a double lacuna in Borges scholarship. For one, this scholarship has been largely developed through the lens of literary and cultural studies, and not by political theorists who bring a distinct disciplinary perspective into the reading of literary works. Secondly, mainstream interpreters have overlooked or have not analyzed enough Borges’s political sympathies. This book ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Sandino's Nation

    Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez Writing Nicaragua, 1940-2012

    by Stephen Henighan ...
    Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez are two of the most influential Latin American intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Addressing Nicaragua's struggle for self-definition from divergent ethnic, religious, generational, political, and class backgrounds, they constructed distinct yet compatible visions of national history, anchored in a reappraisal of the early ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Jorge Amado

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Earl Fitz, Keith Brower, Enrique Martinez-Vidal ...
    Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil, this volume provides an introduction and chronology to Amado's life, followed by a comprehensive survey of his major works by some of the world's leading ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • What Would Cervantes Do?

    Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature

    by David Castillo, William Egginton ...
    Series Book 2 - McGill-Queen's Iberian and Latin American Cultures Series
    The attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 was a tragic illustration of the existential threat that the viral spread of disinformation poses in the age of social media and twenty-four-hour news. From climate change denialism to the frenzied conspiracy theories and racist mythologies that fuel antidemocratic white nationalist movements in the United States and abroad, What Would Cervantes Do? ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies

    Edited by Javier Muñoz-Basols, Laura Lonsdale, Manuel Delgado ...
    Series series Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies
    This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the field, reaffirming Iberian Studies as a dynamic and evolving discipline offering promising areas of future research. It is an essential tool for research in Iberian Studies. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Colonial Phantoms

    Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present

    by Dixa Ramírez ...
    Series Book 28 - Nation of Nations
    Winner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies AssociationWinner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies AssociationHighlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican peopleUsing a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghosted ... Read more

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