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Keywords eBook Series

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  • Keywords for Latina/o Studies

    Edited by Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Deborah R. Vargas, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ...
    Series Book 6 - Keywords
    2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by CHOICE MagazineIntroduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Latinx StudiesKeywords for Latina/o Studies is a generative text that enhances the ongoing dialogue within a rapidly growing and changing field. The keywords included in this collection represent established and emergent terms, categories, and concepts that undergird Latina/o studies ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • Latino America

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  • Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination

    Edited by Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, José David Saldívar ...
    The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Díaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Díaz's decolonial imagination and his radically re-envisioned world, the contributors show how his aesthetic ... Read more

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  • 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

  • From the Edge

    Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print

    by Allison E. Fagan ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identities, and sometimes pushed to the edge by authorities who seek to restrict their freedom. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, the books themselves have occupied similarly precarious positions, as Chicana/o literature has struggled for economic ... Read more

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  • Word Images

    New Perspectives on Canícula and Other Works by Norma Elia Cantú

    Edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs ...
    This collection of critical essays unveils for the first time Norma Elia Cantú’s contribution as a folklorist, writer, scholar, and teacher. Word Images unites two valuable ways to view and use Cantú’s work: Part 1 comprises essays that individually examine Cantú’s oeuvre through critical analysis. Part 2 is dedicated to ideas and techniques to improve the use of this literature by teachers and ... Read more

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  • War Echoes

    Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production

    by Ariana E. Vigil ...
    War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post–Viet Nam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, memoir, and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political, and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o responses to U.S. intervention in Central America and the Middle East. These responses evolved over the ... Read more

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  • Latinx Literature Unbound

    Undoing Ethnic Expectation

    by Ralph E. Rodriguez ...
    Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. Extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which they write. Little sustained scholarly attention has been paid, moreover, to the very category under which we group this literature. Latinx ... Read more

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  • Hemingway's Cuba

    Finding the Places and People That Influenced the Writer

    by Dennis L. Noble ...
    Ernest Hemingway spent about one-third of his life in Cuba and grew to love the country and its people. This travel narrative follows a journey across the island in search of Hemingway's Cuba and how it influenced some of his writings. The author seeks out Hemingway's haunts in Old Havana and his home in Finca Vigia and explores the north coast fishing village of Cojimar, his setting for The Old ... Read more

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  • Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature

    by Danny Méndez ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and Puerto Rico. He argues that given the historic place of creolization as a marker of national, cultural, ... Read more

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  • Américo Paredes

    Culture and Critique

    by José E. Limón ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    Several biographies of Américo Paredes have been published over the last decade, yet they generally overlook the paradoxical nature of his life’s work. Embarking on an in-depth, critical exploration of the significant body of work produced by Paredes, José E. Limón (one of Paredes’s students and now himself one of the world’s leading scholars in Mexican American studies) puts the spotlight on ... Read more

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