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by Anne W. Gulick
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The era of national liberation and decolonization may have come and gone, but postcolonialism remains a largely elusive ideal in the early twenty-first century. In Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic, Anne W. Gulick uncovers a dynamic literary history of African...
Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America
A Janus-Faced Paradigm?
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America presents a nuanced and evidence-based discussion of both the acceptance and co-optation of the transitional justice framework and its potential abuses in the context of the struggle to keep the memory of the past alive and hold perpetrators...
Postcolonial Ecologies
Literatures of the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific...
To Die in this Way
Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1998
Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially “forgotten” indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje—a cultural homogeneity that...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction...
The Grimace of Macho Ratón
Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In this creative ethnography Les W. Field challenges a post-Sandinista national conception of identity, one that threatens to constrict the future of subaltern Nicaraguans. Drawing on the works and words of artisans and artisanas, Indians, and mestizos, Field critiques the national ideology of ethnic...
Identity in Latin American and Latina Literature
The Struggle to Self-Define In a Global Era Where Space, Capitalism, and Power Rule
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This study demonstrates the ways that Latina authors contest how power and space exploit women while simultaneously subverting the Nation-State through reimagining a counter-space where new definitions of the self lie beyond Power’s reach. Moreover, this book delves into how both Power and Space...
Human Rights in the Maya Region
Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in the last two decades indigenous social movements...
I Ask for Justice
Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Given Guatemala’s record of human rights abuses, its legal system has often been portrayed as illegitimate and anemic. I Ask for Justice challenges that perception by demonstrating that even though the legal system was not always just, rural Guatemalans considered it a legitimate arbiter of their grievances...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014
Out of the past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times heroic, figure. This ultimate status, despite heinous crimes, cannot altogether be denied to the pirate. This collection of classic pirates stories includes those by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other legendary scribes.
Vodou in the Haitian Experience
A Black Atlantic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and...
La Travesia de Enrique
La arriesgada odisea de un niño en busca de su madre
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Actualizada con un nuevo epílogo, reflexiones finales, fotos de Enrique y su familia, una entrevista con la autora y mucho más, esta es la versión definitiva de un clásico contemporáneo de los Estados Unidos.
Basada en la serie de Los Angeles Times ganadora de dos premios Pulitzer—al...
Contracultura
Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that...
Neoliberal Bonds
Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Fernando A. Blanco’s Neoliberal Bonds: Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature analyzes the sociocultural processes that have reshaped subjectivities in post-Pinochet Chile. By creatively exploring the intersections among memory, gender, post-trauma, sociology, psychoanalysis, and neoliberalism,...