Mind Reeling
(December 2020)
Psychopathology on Film Homer B. Pettey - Editor
Racialized Visions
(December 2020)
Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean Vanessa K. Valdés - Editor
The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
As a Francophone nation, Haiti is seldom studied in conjunction with its Spanish-speaking Caribbean neighbors. Racialized Visions challenges the notion that linguistic difference has kept the populations of these countries apart, instead highlighting ongoing exch...(Read More)
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)
Creative Transformations
(November 2020)
Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas Krista Brune - Author
The Blossom Which We Are
(November 2020)
The Novel and the Transience of Cultural Worlds Nir Evron - Author
Capitán Latinoamérica
(October 2020)
Superheroes in Cinema, Television, and Web Series Vinodh Venkatesh - Author
Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.
Garbage in Popular Culture is the first book to explicitly link media discourse, consumer culture, and the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society. It makes an original contribution to the areas of consumer culture studies, visual culture, media and communications, and cultural theory through a critical analysis of the ways in w...(Read More)
The Disintegration of Community
(October 2020)
On Jorge Portilla’s Social and Political Philosophy, With Translations of Selected Essays Carlos Alberto Sánchez - Author Francisco Gallegos - Author
Hu Feng
(September 2020)
A Marxist Intellectual in a Communist State, 1930–1955 Ruth Y. Y. Hung - Author
A study of Hu Feng as a literary critic and a case study on how intellectual work can respond to political pressure.
In this book, Ruth Y. Y. Hung provides a study of Hu Feng (1902–1985) as a critic, writer, and editor within the context of the People's Republic of China's political ascendancy. A member of the Japanese Communist Party and the Chinese Communist Party, Hu rose to fame in the 1940s and became a representative...(Read More)
