Buy at Amazon.com Buy at Amazon.de Yudice, George. Theories of the Americas: A Reader in Inter-American Studies. Blackwell, 2005
“Communicating in the Third Space” aims to clarify Homi K. Bhabha’s theory of the third space of enunciation by reconstructing its philosophical, sociological, geographical, and political meaning with attention to the special advantages and ambiguities that arise as it is … Continue reading
Buy at Amazon.com Buy at Amazon.de Stavans, Ilan, Edna Acosta-Belen, and Harold Augenbraum (eds.). The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature. Norton, 2010.
The past few years have seen an explosion of interest among U.S. readers for Latin American literature. Yet rarely do they experience such work in the original Spanish or Portuguese. Elizabeth Lowe and Earl Fitz argue that the role of … Continue reading
“This is Perrone at his most brilliant. Erudite but accessible, thorough but playful: Brazil, Lyric, and the Americas is the latest contribution by the most knowledgeable U.S.-based scholar of the Brazilian lyric.”—Severino João Albuquerque, University of Wisconsin “Perrone retraces the … Continue reading
The twenty-two essays in this collection examine a wide scope of past and present cultural interrelations in the Americas. Exploring mutual gazes, separations, and linkages, this volume highlights regional, national, and transnational contacts in the New World; it raises awareness … Continue reading
These twenty-four essays – written in English and in Spanish – take a fresh look at cultural identities in the Americas from a transnational, inter-American perspective. They explore a variety of topics related to the four main sections of the … Continue reading
From volunteers ready to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border to the hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who have marched in support of immigrant rights, the United States has witnessed a surge of involvement in immigration activism. In The … Continue reading
For years, conventional scholarship has argued that minority groups are better served when the majority groups that absorb them are willing to recognize and allow for the preservation of indigenous identities. But is the reinforcement of ethnic identity among migrant … Continue reading
Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena María Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel. In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young … Continue reading
