A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.

Makes a case for the value—and ultimately impact—of seemingly mundane moments in college classrooms.

Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.

Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.

Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.

Aims to rethink Europe under the sign of openness and hospitality, starting from the Mediterranean—the sea that is so important for the history of the entire West—a sea of differences with a deep unitary root conceived as a paradigm for rethinking new and original forms of social and political coexistence.

Turns to theories and cultural representations of psychosocial life to reflect on, and better understand, the challenges of learning in times of social strife.

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.

Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.

Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.

The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature.

Makes a case for the power of music and sound in the face of fascistic forces, from modernism to the present.

Examines literary depictions of “mannish” pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.

The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.

Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.

Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.

Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.

This entertaining and accessible guide shows readers how to turn danger into opportunity, even when dragons threaten.

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama’s most important essays.

Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today's culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms.

Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.

Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of “incentives” in public life from a Lacanian perspective.

Explores the “torture” of mannered behavior and the prevalence of etiquette as a theme in classical and contemporary Hollywood and European cinema.