Queer Exposures

Ryan Long

• Hardcover | Engels | Illuminations
• Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) stands out among recent Latin American writers because of his unique combination of critical acclaim, popularity, and liter... Lees meer

The Polyphonic Machine

Niall H D Geraghty

• Paperback | Engels | Illuminations
• Focusing on the work of the Argentine authors César Aira, Marcelo Cohen, and Ricardo Piglia, The Polyphonic Machine conducts a close analysis of the i... Lees meer

Concrete and Countryside

Carmelo Esterrich

• Paperback | Engels | Illuminations
• From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept by a wave of modernization, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society t... Lees meer

Comics and Memory in Latin America

• Paperback | Engels | Illuminations | nr. 74
• Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume present... Lees meer

Portraits in the Andes

Jorge Coronado

• Paperback | Engels | Illuminations
• Portraits in the Andes examines indigenous and mestizo self-representation through the medium of photography from the early to mid twentieth century. ... Lees meer

Vernacular Latin Americanisms

Fernando Degiovanni

• Paperback | Engels | Illuminations
• In Vernacular Latin Americanisms , Fernando Degiovanni offers a long-view perspective on the intense debates that shaped Latin American studies and st... Lees meer

After Human Rights

Fernando Rosenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Illuminations | nr. 74
• Fernando J. Rosenberg explores Latin American artistic production concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of ... Lees meer

The Slum and the City

Agnese Codebò

• Hardcover | Engels | Illuminations
• The Argentine capital is largely perceived as a middle-class space. Yet in reality, urban poverty and precarious settlements are defining features of ... Lees meer

A New No-Man's-Land

Esther Whitfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Illuminations
• Guantánamo sits at the center of two of the most vexing issues of US policy of the past century: relations with Cuba and the Global War on Terror. It ... Lees meer

Appropriating Theory

José Eduardo González

• Paperback | Engels | Illuminations | nr. 76
• Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work. In this ... Lees meer

The Curse of Nemur

Ticio Escobar

• Paperback | Engels | Illuminations | nr. 74
• The Tom-raho, a subgroup of the Ishir (Chamacoco) of Paraguay, are one of the few remaining indigenous populations who have managed to keep both their... Lees meer

Anti-Literature

Adam Joseph Shellhorse

• Paperback | Engels | Illuminations | nr. 76
• Anti-Literature articulates a rethinking of what is meant today by "literature." Examining key Latin American forms of experimental writing from the 1... Lees meer

Impossible Domesticity

Leila Gómez

• Hardcover | Engels | Illuminations
• Translated by Robert Weis Travelers from Europe, North, and South America often perceive Mexico as a mythical place onto which they project their own ... Lees meer

Unwanted Witnesses

Gabriela Polit Dueñas

• Hardcover | Engels | Illuminations
• Gabriela Polit Dueñas analyzes the work of five narrative journalists from three countries. Marcela Turati, Daniela Rea, and Sandra Rodriguez from Mex... Lees meer

The Optic of the State

Jens Andermann

• Paperback | Engels | Illuminations | nr. 74
• The Optic of the State traces the production of nationalist imaginaries through the public visual representation of modern state formation in Brazil a... Lees meer

Intersecting Tango

Adriana Bergero

• Paperback | Engels | Illuminations | nr. 74
• In the early part of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires erupted from its colonial past as a city in its own right, expressing a unique and vibrant cu... Lees meer

Other South

Hosam Aboul-Ela

• Paperback | Engels | Illuminations | nr. 74
• Hosam Aboul-Ela provides a startlingly original perspective on Faulkner, examining his work in the transnational context of the \u201cGlobal South\u20... Lees meer

The Book in Movement

Magalí Rabasa

• Hardcover | Engels | Illuminations
• Over the past two decades, Latin America has seen an explosion of experiments with autonomy, as people across the continent express their refusal to b... Lees meer

Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism

Pablo Calvi

• Hardcover | Engels | Illuminations
• Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism explores the central role of narrative journalism in the formation of national identities in Latin Am... Lees meer

Embodying Modernity

Daniel Silva

• Hardcover | Engels | Illuminations
• Embodying Modernity examines the current boom of fitness culture in Brazil in the context of the white patriarchal notions of race, gender, and sexual... Lees meer

Literature and Subjection

Horacio Legrás

• Paperback | Engels | Illuminations | nr. 74
• Through theoretical, philosophical, cultural, political, and historical analysis, Horacio Legras views the myriad factors that have both formed and st... Lees meer

Crisis Cultures

Brian S Whitener

• Hardcover | Engels | Illuminations
• Drawing on a mix of political, economic, literary, and filmic texts, Crisis Cultures challenges current cultural histories of the neoliberal period by... Lees meer

Modernity at the Movies

Camila Gatica Mizala

• Hardcover | Engels | Illuminations
• Cinema can both reflect the world as it is and offer escape from it. In Modernity at the Movies , Camila Gatica Mizala explores the ideas of reflectio... Lees meer

Intermittences

Ana Forcinito

• Paperback | Engels | Illuminations
• The construction of memory entails a battle not only between memory and forgetting but also between different memories. There are multiple constructio... Lees meer