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“wendy faris”

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  • Magical Realism

    Theory, History, Community

    Edited by Lois Parkinson Zamora, Wendy B. Faris ...
    Magical realism is often regarded as a regional trend, restricted to the Latin American writers who popularized it as a literary form. In this critical anthology, the first of its kind, editors Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris show magical realism to be an international movement with a wide-ranging history and a significant influence among the literatures of the world. In essays on texts ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora

    From the Americas to the World

    by John Ochoa, Monika Kaup, Antonio Barrenechea, Anna Brickhouse, Priscilla Archibald, Christopher Winks, Wendy Faris, Ralph Bauer, Silvia Spitta0, Stephen M. Hart1, Djelal Kadir2 ...
    Honoring the lifework of the comparative literature scholar, From the Americas to the World: Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora traces artistic and cultural pathways that connect Latin American literature and culture to the Americas, and to the world beyond. The essays in this collection cover three critical fields: comparative hemispheric American literature, magical realism, and the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • From the Edge

    Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print

    by Allison E. Fagan ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identities, and sometimes pushed to the edge by authorities who seek to restrict their freedom. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, the books themselves have occupied similarly precarious positions, as Chicana/o literature has struggled for economic ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

    Edited by Sara Castro-Klaren ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE“The work contains a wealth of information that must surely provide the basic material for a number of study modules. It should find a place on the library shelves of all institutions where Latin American studies form part of the curriculum.”Reference Review“In short, this is a fascinating panoply that goes from a reevaluation of pre-Columbian ... Read more

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  • The Social Imperative

    Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism

    by Paula L. Moya ...
    In the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself change the world, it remains a powerful tool and important actor in the ongoing struggle to imagine better ways to be human and free. Figuring the relationship between reader and text as a type of friendship, the book elaborates the social-psychological concept of ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • War Echoes

    Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production

    by Ariana E. Vigil ...
    War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post–Viet Nam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, memoir, and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political, and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o responses to U.S. intervention in Central America and the Middle East. These responses evolved over the ... Read more

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  • Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United States

    by Donna L. Gilton ...
    This book describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children's literature in the U.S., as well as related materials published elsewhere. It relates in great detail the people, businesses, organizations, and institutions that create, disseminate, promote, critique, and collect these materials. Author Donna Gilton gives a detailed history of U.S. multicultural and ethnic ... Read more

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  • Native American and Chicano/a Literature of the American Southwest

    Intersections of Indigenous Literatures

    by Christina M. Hebebrand ...
    Series series Indigenous Peoples and Politics
    This book studies Native American and Chicano/a writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant Euro-American culture. ... Read more

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  • Writing the Goodlife

    Mexican American Literature and the Environment

    by Priscilla Solis Ybarra ...
    Winner of the Western Literature Association’s 2017 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural StudiesMexican American literature brings a much-needed approach to the increasingly urgent challenges of climate change and environmental injustice. Although current environmental studies work to develop new concepts, Writing the Goodlife looks to long-established traditions of ... Read more

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  • Gente Decente

    A Borderlands Response to the Rhetoric of Dominance

    by Leticia Magda Garza-Falcón ...
    In his books The Great Plains, The Great Frontier, and The Texas Rangers, historian Walter Prescott Webb created an enduring image of fearless, white, Anglo male settlers and lawmen bringing civilization to an American Southwest plagued with "savage" Indians and Mexicans. So popular was Webb's vision that it influenced generations of historians and artists in all media and effectively silenced the ... Read more

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