South of the Future
(December 2020)
Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas Anindita Banerjee - Editor Debra A. Castillo - Editor
Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.
South Asia and Latin America represent two epicenters of migrant care work and the globalized reproductive market. Yet scholars and the media continue to examine them in geographical and conceptual isolation. South of the Future closes both these gaps. It investigates nannying, elder care, domestic work, and othe...(Read More)
Despite All Adversities
(December 2015)
Spanish-American Queer Cinema Andrés Lema-Hincapié - Editor Debra A. Castillo - Editor
2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Provides sophisticated theoretical approaches to Latin American cinema and sexual culture.
Despite All Adversities examines a representative selection of notable queer films by Spanish America’s most important directors since the 1950s. Each chapter focuses on a single film and offers rich an...(Read More)
Redreaming America
(December 2004)
Toward a Bilingual American Culture Debra A. Castillo - Author
Pursues an inquiry into the cultural and linguistic dissonances that Spanish creates in the United States.
What would American literature look like in languages other than English, and what would Latin American literature look like if we understood the United States to be a Latin American country and took seriously the work by U.S. Latinos/as in Spanish? Debra A. Castillo explores these questions by highlighting the con...(Read More)
