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Hispanic Issue eBook Series

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  • Cartographies of Madrid

    Contesting Urban Space at the Crossroads of the Global South and Global North

    Edited by Silvia Bermudez, Anthony L. Geist ...
    Series series Hispanic Issue
    One of this book's goals is to evaluate the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship to the present. The other is to examine the city as lived experience, where citizens contest capital's push to shape urban space in its own image through activities of the imagination.Scholars, investigative ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Defiant Braceros

    How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom

    by Mireya Loza ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    In this book, Mireya Loza sheds new light on the private lives of migrant men who participated in the Bracero Program (1942–1964), a binational agreement between the United States and Mexico that allowed hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers to enter this country on temporary work permits. While this program and the issue of temporary workers has long been politicized on both sides of the ... Read more

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  • The New Cultural History of Peronism

    Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Argentina

    by Natalia Milanesio ...
    In nearly every account of modern Argentine history, the first Peronist regime (1946–55) emerges as the critical juncture. Appealing to growing masses of industrial workers, Juan Perón built a powerful populist movement that transformed economic and political structures, promulgated new conceptions and representations of the nation, and deeply polarized the Argentine populace. Yet until now, most ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Singular and Plural

    Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia

    by Kathryn A. Woolard ...
    Series series Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
    Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Stories That Make History

    Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas

    by Lynn Stephen ...
    From covering the massacre of students at Tlatelolco in 1968 and the 1985 earthquake to the Zapatista rebellion in 1994 and the disappearance of forty-three students in 2014, Elena Poniatowska has been one of the most important chroniclers of Mexican social, cultural, and political life. In Stories That Make History, Lynn Stephen examines Poniatowska's writing, activism, and political ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Havana beyond the Ruins

    Cultural Mappings after 1989

    Edited by Anke Birkenmaier, Esther Whitfield ...
    In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet subsidies of Cuba ceased, and the Cuban state has re-imagined Havana as a destination for international tourists and business ventures. Cuba’s capital has experienced little construction since the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Dream Nation

    Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence

    by María Acosta Cruz ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    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 roots and effects of this profound disconnect between cultural fantasy and political reality ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Hispanic Immigrant Literature

    El Sueño del Retorno

    by Nicolás Kanellos ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in the United States. Immigrant literature uses predominantly the language of the homeland; it serves a ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Cosmolectics

    Kab'awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures

    by Gloria Elizabeth Chacón ...
    Series series Critical Indigeneities
    Latin America’s Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters. Gloria E. Chacón considers the growing number of contemporary Indigenous writers who turn to Maya and Zapotec languages alongside Spanish translations of their work to challenge ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Colonial Phantoms

    Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present

    by Dixa Ramírez ...
    Series Book 28 - Nation of Nations
    Winner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies AssociationWinner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies AssociationHighlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican peopleUsing a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghosted ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Territories of Conflict

    Traversing Colombia through Cultural Studies

    Edited by Andrea Fanta Castro, Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Chloe Rutter-Jensen ...
    Territories of Conflict offers a comprehensive view of the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through in-depth analyses of citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grassroots movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media production. The volume investigates conflict as a creative force but one that is not devoid of its destructive meaning for ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America

    Trauma, Politics, and Resistance

    by Aída Díaz de León, Steven F. White, Marcella Salvi, Martha I. Chew Sánchez, Juan José Ponce-Vázquez, Selfa A. Chew, Alfred Limas Hernández, Beatriz Carolina Peña, Mallory Craig-Kuhn0, Oscar D. Sarmiento1, Liliana Trevizán2, Marina Llorente4, George Ciccariello-Maher5 ...
    Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America isa collection of essays that explores historical memory at the intersection of political, cultural, social, and economic forces in the contexts of Spain and Latin America. The essays here focus on a variety of forms of memory—from the most concrete to the performative—that resist forgetting and unite individuals against hegemonic memory. The volume ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD