Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America.

Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.

Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.

Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature through psychoanalytic theory.

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.

Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.

Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.

Provides a contemporary response to such landmark volumes as All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave and This Bridge Called My Back.

Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.

Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film.

Offers the first comprehensive survey of Mexican existentialism to appear in English.

Uses both historical and contemporary case studies to examine how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit. .

Provides sophisticated theoretical approaches to Latin American cinema and sexual culture.

Explores Borges’ infatuation with Jewish history and culture.

A sweeping study of political murder in Latin America.

A comparative study of Latin American and francophone postcoloniality.

Explores the ideological and emotional trauma created after the withering of the socialist utopia in Cuba.

Serves as a source for the exploration of many dimensions of the human experience in relation to other beings, ranging from machines and blueprints to mollusks and plants.

Critical analysis of Plan Colombia, a multibillion dollar US counternarcotics initiative.

Discusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.

Examines the intersections of “Latino,” “queer,” and “American,” to illustrate how the categories of class, race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity are directly entangled with issues of citizenship and belonging.

Explores activist scholarship in relation to feminism and social movements in the Americas.

Studies the influence of the plastic arts on the major writers of Latin American modernism.

Expanded edition with new chapters and updates to the translation and bibliography.

Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.