Latin American Studies
Forms of Disappointment
Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.
Bordered Writers
Examines innovative writing pedagogies and the experiences of Latinx student writers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions nationwide.
Argentina Noir
An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.
Speaking Face to Face
The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.
Let's Hear Their Voices
The first anthology of poetry, prose, and drama by second-generation Cuban American writers.
With a Diamond in My Shoe
The intellectual autobiography of a leading figure in the field of Latin American philosophy.
The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage
Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.
Troubled Memories
Analyzes literary and cultural representations of iconic Mexican women to explore how these reimaginings can undermine or perpetuate gender norms in contemporary Mexico.
The Projected Nation
Investigates how Argentine cinema has represented rural spaces and urban margins from the 1910s to the present.
Affectual Erasure
Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2
Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.
Liminal Sovereignty
Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.
Blood Circuits
Examines how recent Argentine horror films engage with the legacies of dictatorship and neoliberalism.
Animating Black and Brown Liberation
Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation.
Only the People Can Save the People
Examines the egalitarian, creative, and inclusive practice of radical democracy in contemporary Venezuela.
The Trade in the Living
Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.
Adapting Gender
Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico.
States of Grace
Provides in-depth analyses of key moments in Brazilian utopianism, including theologico-political, matriarchal, environmental, and work-free utopias.
Citizens' Power in Latin America
Examines why some democratic innovations succeed while others fail, using Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile as case studies.
On Self-Translation
A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.
Think Like an Archipelago
A career-spanning assessment of Glissant’s work as a philosophical project.
The Afterlife of al-Andalus
The first study to undertake a wide-ranging comparison of invocations of al-Andalus across the the Arab and Hispanic worlds.
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 1
Analyzes contemporary Maya narratives.
Witnessing beyond the Human
Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America.
Diasporic Blackness
Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.