Télécharger le livre :  Listening to Sicarios

Listening to Sicarios presents new insights into the lives of paid assassins of Mexico’s drug trafficking syndicates from the perspectives of the assassins themselves. Based on an extraordinary series of ethnographic interviews carried out in the wake of the record...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-02-28
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  From Telenovelas to Netflix: Transnational, Transverse Television in Latin America

This book is about television in Latin America. Its national and regional industries create most television programming there within genres developed over time in the region. However, part of the programming has always come from the U.S., Europe and elsewhere....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-12-06
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  'Punto de Vista' and the Argentine Intellectual Left

This book is the first comprehensive account of the Argentine magazine Punto de Vista (1978–2008), a cultural review that gathered together prominent Argentine intellectuals throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century. Directed by cultural historian...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-09-20
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  The Art of Brasília

People from outside of Brasília often dismiss Brazil’s capital as socially divided, boring, corrupt, and emotionally cold. Apparently its founders created not a vibrant capital, but a cultural wasteland. However, as Sophia Beal argues, Brasília’s contemporary artists...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-01-29
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  Electronic Literature in Latin America

This book explores one of the most exciting new developments in the literary field to emerge over recent decades: the growing body of work known as ‘electronic literature’, comprising literary works that take advantage of the capabilities of digital technologies in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-22
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  Performing Everyday Life in Argentine Popular Theater, 1890–1934

This book examines the prolific and widely-attended popular theater boom of the género chico criollo in the context of Argentina’s modernization. Victoria Lynn Garrett examines how selected plays mediated the impact of economic liberalism, technological changes, new...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-09-17
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

This volume explores the recent ‘adolescent turn’ in contemporary Latin American cinema, challenging many of the underlying assumptions about the nature of youth and distinguishing adolescence as a distinct and vital area of study. Its contributors examine the narrative...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-20
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  The Theater of Revisions in the Hispanic Caribbean

This book explores the textured process of rewriting and revising theatrical works in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean as both a material and metaphorical practice. Deftly tracing these themes through community theater groups, ancient Greek theater, religious traditions,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-18
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  The Masters and the Slaves

This collection presents a comparative study of the impact of slavery on the literary and cultural imagination of the Americas, and also on the impact of writing on slavery on the social legacies of slavery's history. The chapters examine the relationship of slavery and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-06
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American road movie, of which Diarios de motocicleta and Y tu mamá también are only the best-known examples. It offers the first systematic survey of the genre...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-09
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  Queering the Chilean Way

This book examines and critiques the fact that Chile’s claims to economic exceptionalism have been embodied, often quite aggressively, in a heterosexual, and primarily male, ideal. Despite the many shifts Chilean economics and politics have undergone over the past...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-11
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  Queer Argentina

Through insightful, high-paced commentary this book directs attention south, towards Argentina. Current events, political debates, and the cultural production of artists, authors and public figures, including César Aira, María Moreno, Naty Menstrual and Copi, among...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-10
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis

The first book-length edited collection on Machado de Assis, this volume offers essays on Machado de Assis' work that offer new critical perspectives not only Brazilian literature and history, but also to social, cultural, and political phenomena that continue to have...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-06-24
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  Arguedas / Vargas Llosa

An English-language translation of the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and LASA Premio Iberoamericano award-winning Spanish-language book, Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa. Dilemas y ensamblajes, Mabel Moraña offers the first comparative study of two of contemporary Latin...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-06-08
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought

Through a collection of critical essays, this work explores twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  Other Worlds

Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the 'new Argentine cinema' phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-23
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  Brazil under Construction

Brazil under Construction tracks how Brazil's major public works projects and the fiction surrounding them mark a twofold construction of the nation: the functional construction of the country's public infrastructure and the symbolic construction of nationhood.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-11
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  Sports and Nationalism in Latin / o America

This collection interrogates sports in Latin America as a key terrain in which nation is defined and populations are interpellated through emotionally charged practices (state policy, media representations, and sports play itself by professionals, national teams and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-05-06
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  Viral Voyages

This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-05-14
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry

Addressing the transnational relationships of Freemasonry, politics, and culture in the field of Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures, Writing Secrecy provides insight into Pan-Caribbean, transnational and diasporic formations of these Masonic lodges...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-04-24
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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