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The Other/Argentina
(May 2021)
Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation
Amy K. Kaminsky - Author
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Argues that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina’s self-fashioning as a modern nation.
The Other/Argentina looks at literature, film, and the visual arts to examine the threads of Jewishness that create patterns of meaning within the fabric of Argentine self-representation. A multiethnic yet deeply Roman Catholic country, Argentina has worked mightily to fashion i...(Read More) |
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Creative Transformations
(November 2020)
Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas
Krista Brune - Author
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Explores the role of travel and translation in Brazilian literature and culture from the 1870s to the present.
In Creative Transformations, Krista Brune brings together Brazilian fiction, film, journalism, essays, and correspondence from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Drawing attention to the travels of Brazilian artists and intellectuals to the Un...(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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The Space of Disappearance
(April 2020)
A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror
Karen Elizabeth Bishop - Author
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Examines the evolution of disappearance as a formal narrative and epistemological phenomenon in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction.
More than thirty thousand people were forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship that governed Argentina from 1976 to 1983, leaving behind a cultural landscape fractured by absence, denial, impunity, and gaps in knowledge. This book is about how these absences assume narrative form ...(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, medical discourse, and the visual art...(Read More) |
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With a Diamond in My Shoe
(October 2019)
A Philosopher's Search for Identity in America
Jorge J. E. Gracia - Author
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The intellectual autobiography of a leading figure in the field of Latin American philosophy.
In 1961, at the age of nineteen, Jorge J. E. Gracia escaped from the island of Cuba by passing himself off as a Catholic seminarian. He arrived in the United States with just a few spare belongings and his mother’s diamond ring secured in a hole in one of his shoes. With a Diamond in My Shoe tells the story of Gracia&rsquo...(Read More) |
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Forms of Disappointment
(September 2019)
Cuban and Angolan Narrative after the Cold War
Lanie Millar - Author
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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.
In Forms of Disappointment, Lanie Millar traces the legacies of anti-imperial solidarity in Cuban and Angolan novels and films after 1989. Cuba’s intervention in Angola’s post-independence civil war from 1976 to 1991 was ...(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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Argentina Noir
(March 2019)
New Millennium Crime Novels in Buenos Aires
Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz - Author
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An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.
Argentina Noir offers a guide to Argentine crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000. It argues that the novela negra, or crime novel, has become the favored genre for many writers to address the social malaise brought about by changes linked to globalization and market-d...(Read More) |
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States of Grace
(April 2018)
Utopia in Brazilian Culture
Patrícia I. Vieira - Author
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Provides in-depth analyses of key moments in Brazilian utopianism, including theological-political, matriarchal, environmental, and work-free utopias.
States of Grace offers a novel approach to the study of Brazilian culture through the lens of utopianism. Patrícia I. Vieira explores religious and political writings, journalistic texts, sociological studies, and literary works that portray Brazil as a utopi...(Read More) |
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