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Unsettling Colonialism
(October 2019)
Gender and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Global Hispanic World
N. Michelle Murray - Editor
Akiko Tsuchiya - Editor
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An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world.
Unsettling Colonialism illuminates the interplay of race and gender in a range of fin-de-siècle Spanish narratives of empire and colonialism, including literary fictions, travel narratives, political treatises, medical discourse, and the visual art...(Read More) |
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Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory
(June 2019)
Roberta Johnson - Author
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First book in English to offer a thorough introduction to key concepts and figures in Spanish feminist thought.
Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory is the first book in English to offer a substantial overview of Spanish feminist thought. It focuses on six concepts—solitude, personality, social class, work, difference, and equality—and distinguishes Spanish feminist theory from that of other countries. Rob...(Read More) |
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On Self-Translation
(November 2018)
Meditations on Language
Ilan Stavans - Author
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FINALIST - 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Essay category
A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.
From award-winning, internationally known scholar and translator Ilan Stavans comes On Self-Translation,a collection of essays and conversations on language in its multifaceted forms. Stavans discusses the way syntax is being restructured b...(Read More) |
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The Afterlife of al-Andalus
(November 2017)
Muslim Iberia in Contemporary Arab and Hispanic Narratives
Christina Civantos - Author
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The first study to undertake a wide-ranging comparison of invocations of al-Andalus across the Arab and Hispanic worlds.
Around the globe, concerns about interfaith relations have led to efforts to find earlier models in Muslim Iberia (al-Andalus). This book examines how Muslim Iberia operates as an icon or symbol of identity in twentieth and twenty-first century narrative, drama, television, and film from the...(Read More) |
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Radical Poetry
(November 2016)
Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900-2015
Eduardo Ledesma - Author
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Engages in a critical reanalysis of historical Ibero-American experimental poetry in order to demonstrate how the contemporary digital vanguard owes much to this tradition.
With a broad geographic and linguistic sweep covering more than one hundred years of poetry, this book investigates the relationships between and among technology, aesthetics, and politics in Ibero-American experimental poetry. Eduardo Ledesma analyzes visual...(Read More) |
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Malady and Genius
(July 2016)
Self-Sacrifice in Puerto Rican Literature
Benigno Trigo - Author
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Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature through psychoanalytic theory.
Malady and Genius examines the recurring theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature during the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Interpreting these scenes through the works of Frantz Fanon, Kelly Oliver, and Julia Kristeva, Benigno Trigo focuses on the context o...(Read More) |
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In-Between
(April 2016)
Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self
Mariana Ortega - Author
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Draws from Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory to explore the concept of selfhood.
This original study intertwining Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory offers a new philosophical approach to understanding selfhood and identity. Focusing on writings by Gloría Anzaldúa, María Lugones, and Linda Martín Alcoff, Mariana Ortega articulates a phenomenology th...(Read More) |
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Despite All Adversities
(December 2015)
Spanish-American Queer Cinema
Andrés Lema-Hincapié - Editor
Debra A. Castillo - Editor
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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 and thoughtful new interpretations...(Read More) |
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Minima Cuba
(June 2015)
Heretical Poetics and Power in Post-Soviet Cuba
Marta Hernández Salván - Author
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2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Explores the ideological and emotional trauma created after the withering of the socialist utopia in Cuba.
Mínima Cuba analyzes the reconfiguration of aesthetics and power during the Cuban postrevolutionary transition (1989 to 2005, the conclusion of the “Special Period”). It explores th...(Read More) |
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This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition
(March 2015)
Writings by Radical Women of Color
Cherríe Moraga - Editor
Gloria Anzaldúa - Editor
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Bronze Medalist 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Anthologies Category
FINALIST 2015 ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the Anthologies Category
Updated and expanded edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.
Originally re...(Read More) |
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