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  • Exhuming Loss

    Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War

    de Layla Renshaw ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series
    This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in two small rural communities as they undergo the experience of exhumation, identification, and reburial from nearby mass graves. Based on interviews with relatives of the dead, community members and forensic archaeologists, it pays close attention to the role of excavated objects and ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Rite, Flesh, and Stone

    The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Memory of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone

    Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay

    de Francesca Lessa, Vincent Druliolle ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Babies without Borders

    Adoption and Migration across the Americas

    de Karen Dubinsky ...
    International adoptions are both high-profile and controversial, with the celebrity adoptions and critically acclaimed movies such as Casa de los babys of recent years increasing media coverage and influencing public opinion. Neither celebrating nor condemning cross-cultural adoption, Karen Dubinsky considers the political symbolism of children in her examination of adoption and migration ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Baroque Horrors

    Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Mestizo State

    Reading Race in Modern Mexico

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Globalization and the Decolonial Option

    Edición de Walter D. Mignolo, Arturo Escobar ...
    This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de ... Leer más

    $79.99 USD

  • Beyond Bolaño

    The Global Latin American Novel

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Nervous System

    de Michael Taussig ...
    In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin America, homesickness, and the place of the tactile eye in both magic and modernity, anthropologist Michael Taussig puts into representational practice a curious type of engaged writing. Based on a paranoiac vision of social control and its understanding as in a permanent state of emergency leaving no ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $46.00 USD

  • The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader

    de Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Ranajit Guha ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated by a collective known as the Latin American Studies Group, the volume privileges the category of the subaltern over that ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect

    A Collection

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD