Télécharger le livre :  Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration
This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Díaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-06-21
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  Redrawing The Nation
This volume discusses the role of comics in the formation of a modern sense of nationhood in Latin America and the rise of a collective Latino identity in the USA. It is one of the first attempts - in English and from a cultural studies perspective - to cover Latin/o...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-10-26
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  Telling Ruins in Latin America
This book highlights the ruin's prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethical reflection and change in the midst of ruinous devastation.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-07-20
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  Carnal Inscriptions
This book explores manifestations of physical disability in Spanish American narrative fiction and performance, from José Martí's late nineteenth century crónicas, to Mario Bellatín's twenty-first century novels, from the performances of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-05-25
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  Cuba in the Special Period
This collection examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. Contributors address the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of labour, leisure, and bureaucratic organization that...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-01-05
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  The Portable Island
Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellowCubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching. How doCubans confront their condition as an uprooted people? The Portable...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-10-27
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing
Conventional scholarship on written communication positions the Western alphabet as a precondition for literacy. Thus, pictographic, non-verbal writing practices of Mesoamerica remain obscured by representations of lettered speech. This book examines how contemporary...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-05-26
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  Essays in Cuban Intellectual History
Well-known essayist and Cuban historian Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work, one which focuses on - and offers alternatives to - the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Rojas explores the most...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-03-17
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  White Negritude
This book looks at the relationship of literary criticism to the social construction of race in Brazil. Isfahani-Hammond considers Gilberto Freyre's model of master/slave synthesis and examines what "multiculturalism" means after the turn of the century.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-12-25
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity
This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-10-29
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza
In the tradition of the Latin American testimonio, this is the story of Juan Rivera, a.k.a. Juanito Xtravaganza, a Latino runaway youth who ends up homeless in the streets of New York in the late 70s and becomes partner of the internationally famous 1980s Pop artist...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-10-02
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism
This volume looks at the shifting role of aesthetics in Latin American literature and literary studies, focusing on the concept of 'ethical responsibility' within these practices. The contributing authors examine the act of reading in its new globalized context of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-08-20
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Télécharger le livre :  None of the Above
This volume sets out current debates about Puerto Rico. The title simultaneously refers to the results of a non-binding 1998 plebiscite held in San Juan to determine Puerto Rico's political status, the ambiguities that have historically characterized its political...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-04-16
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  The Development of Mexico's Tourism Industry
Berger argues that tourism was forged by Mexico's government in 1928 as the cornerstone of state-led modernization programmes.Berger presents tourism as the leading and influential facet of the post-revolutionary modernization programme. She also examines how tourism...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-03-01
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  Remembering Maternal Bodies
Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or challenge our commonly held beliefs about motherhood and maternity, in an effort to stop depression and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-01-21
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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Télécharger le livre :  An Intellectual History of the Caribbean
This is first intellectual history of the Caribbean written by a top Caribbean studies scholar. The book examines both the work of natives of the region as well as texts interpretive of the region produced by Western authors. Stressing the experimental and cultural...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-01-08
Collection : New Directions in Latino American Cultures PDF

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