Mar: 1984 books
Culo subido
Y otros relatos de humor
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Culo subido y otros relatos recoge cuentos de diez escritores de renombre, invitados por Juan en el marco del festival La Risa de Bilbao. Un hilarante y malévolo retrato conyugal a través del masajeo y apuntalamiento de un culo (Fernando Aramburu). Un catálogo de Ikea que se remonta a la Edad Media...
El bucle prodigioso
Veinte años después de "Elogio y refutación del ingenio"
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Hace veinte años, José Antonio Marina publicó su primer libro, Elogio y refutación del ingenio. Fue el comienzo de una copiosa producción filosófica, dispersa en temas y estilos. Sin embargo, Marina siempre ha afirmado la necesidad de elaborar un sistema filosófico, si no quiere uno perderse...
Our Lady of Everyday Life
La Virgen de Guadalupe and the Catholic Imagination of Mexican Women in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
For Mexican Catholic women in the United States, devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe-La Virgen-is a necessary aspect of their cultural identity. In this masterful ethnography, María Del Socorro Castañeda-Liles considers three generations of Mexican-origin women between the ages of 18 and 82. She examines...
Dream Nation
Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have been defining features of Puerto Rican literature and culture. In the provocative new book Dream Nation, María Acosta Cruz investigates the...
by Javier Cosnava, María Delgado, Juan Àngel Laguna Edroso
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Las leyendas más terroríficas de la tradición española actualizadas manteniendo lo más terrorífico y lo más humano de ellas. Casi en cada pueblo del norte de España se pueden oír historias de meigas, anxeliños, trasgos, sorginas, basiliscos, corujas o enamorados que vagan penando sin descanso,...
Castles in Spain
25 Years of Spanish Fantasy and Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
An exceptional chance to get the stories by Spain's top authors that changed the direction of its speculative fiction Elia Barceló, César Mallorquí, Juan Miguel Aguilera, Domingo Santos, Rodolfo Martínez, León Arsenal, Rafael Marín, Félix J. Palma, Javier Negrete, and Eduardo Vaquerizo. Ten...
by Javier Marías
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a riveting novel of infidelity and a man trapped by a terrible secret.
Marta has only just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment while her husband is away on business. When her two-year-old son finally falls asleep, Marta and...
by Javier Marías
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
A dozen stories by Javier Marías, "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe).
Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories...
by Javier Marías
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University.
In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted...
Berta Isla
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
From the award-winning, internationally best-selling Spanish writer, author of The Infatuations, comes a gripping new novel of intrigue and missed chances--at once a spy story and a profound examination of a marriage founded on secrets and lies.
When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided...
Gay Latino Studies
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The authors of the essays in this unique collection explore the lives and cultural contributions of gay Latino men in the United States, while also analyzing the political and theoretical stakes of gay Latino studies. In new essays and influential previously published pieces, Latino scholars based...
by Juana María Rodríguez
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the interstices between radical queer desires and the urgency of transforming public policy, between utopian longings and everyday failures. Considering the ways in which bodily movement is...
Queer Latinidad
Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
According to the 2000 census, Latinos/as have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. Images of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture suggest a Latin Explosion at center stage, yet the topic of queer identity in relation to Latino/a America remains under...
Buenas Noches, American Culture
Latina/o Aesthetics of Night
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Often treated like night itself—both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized—Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and...