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Barcelona, City of Comics
(February 2022)
Urbanism, Architecture, and Design in Postdictatorial Spain
Benjamin Fraser - Author
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Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.
Barcelona, City of Comics introduces readers of English to a range of Spanish- and Catalan-language comics published after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. During this time of palpable social change, the Catalonian capital regained its reputation as the h...(Read More) |
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This Bridge Called My Back, Fortieth Anniversary Edition
(November 2021)
Writings by Radical Women of Color
Cherríe Moraga - Editor
Gloria Anzaldúa - Editor
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Fortieth anniversary edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.
Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga...(Read More) |
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Racialized Visions
(December 2020)
Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean
Vanessa K. Valdés - Editor
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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 co...(Read More) |
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The Disintegration of Community
(September 2020)
On Jorge Portilla’s Social and Political Philosophy, With Translations of Selected Essays
Carlos Alberto Sánchez - Author
Francisco Gallegos - Author
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Analysis of this important Mexican philosopher's social, cultural, and political writings.
The Disintegration of Community analyzes the social and cultural writings of Jorge Portilla (1919−1963) in order to demonstrate the continued relevance of his thought. Carlos Alberto Sánchez and Francisco Gallegos situate Portilla’s otros ensayos—a series of essays originally p...(Read More) |
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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,...(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 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, dra...(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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