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Hispanic Issue eBook Series

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  • Améfrica in Letters

    Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone

    by Mamadou Badiane, Ángela Castro, Gloria Chacón, Isis Barra Costa, Michael Handelsman, Eliseo Jacob, Diana Rodríguez Quevedo, Paulette Ramsay, Juan Guillermo Sánchez Martínez, Juan Eduardo Wolf ...
    Series series Hispanic Issue
    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 Amefrican thinker Lélia Gonzalez, Améfrica in Letters highlights the Black poets, songwriters, novelists, essayists, and bloggers who have created a counter-multiculturalist literary history on the Latin ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Borders of Dominicanidad

    Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction

    by Lorgia García Peña ...
    In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and Dominicans living abroad have contested these dominant narratives and their violent, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity

    Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism

    by Sherina Feliciano-Santos ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, the book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists as well as the alternative fonts of authority they draw on to ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race

    The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    by Marilyn Grace Miller ...
    Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and racial mixtures known collectively as mestizaje. These mixtures reflect the influences of indigenous peoples from Latin America, Europeans, and Africans, and spawn a fascinating and often volatile blend of cultural practices and products. Yet no scholarly study to date has provided an articulate context for fully ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Acoustic Colonialism

    Acts of Mapuche Interference

    by Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante ...
    Series series Dissident Acts
    In Acoustic Colonialism, Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production over the last two centuries. Cárcamo-Huechante theorizes sound as a territory of racial, patriarchal, and colonial hegemony as well as of Mapuche struggle, agency, and response to what he calls "acoustic colonialism." From the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Chilean ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • In Defense of Common Life

    The Political Thought of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar

    by Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar ...
    Translated by JD Pluecker ...
    The essential political and theoretical work of one of Latin America’s most important contemporary theorists.Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar is one of the foremost Latin American political thinkers. From armed Indigenous struggle in the Bolivian altiplano to the contemporary wave of feminist uprisings, Raquel Gutiérrez's life and work have spanned and spurred on some of the most important political ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indigenous Cosmolectics

    Kab'awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures

    by Gloria Elizabeth Chacón ...
    Series series Critical Indigeneities
    Latin America’s Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters. Gloria E. Chacón considers the growing number of contemporary Indigenous writers who turn to Maya and Zapotec languages alongside Spanish translations of their work to challenge ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Geographies of Cubanidad

    Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba

    by Rebecca M. Bodenheimer ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    Derived from the nationalist writings of José Martí, the concept of Cubanidad (Cubanness) has always imagined a unified hybrid nation where racial difference is nonexistent and nationality trumps all other axes identities. Scholars have critiqued this celebration of racial mixture, highlighting a gap between the claim of racial harmony and the realities of inequality faced by Afro-Cubans since ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature

    Edited by Antonio D. Tillis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
    After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction to the literary worlds and perceptions of national culture and identity of authors from Spanish ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing

    Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics

    Edited by Estrella Cibreiro, Francisca López ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    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 portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and purposeful manner. The contributors analyze texts pertaining to all literary genres, examining a myriad of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Negro Soy Yo

    Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba

    by Marc D. Perry ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island’s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways these young artists craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship, along with calls for ... Read more

    $25.99 USD