The Art of Brasília

Sophia Beal

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• People from outside of Brasília often dismiss Brazil's capital as socially divided, boring, corrupt, and emotionally cold. Apparently its founders cre... Lees meer

Latin American Readings for a Cultural Age

E Santi

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Gathered in one volume are seven of the best essays written in the last fifteen years or so by the eminent Latin Americanist Enrico Mario Santí. The e... Lees meer

Listening to Sicarios

Arturo Chacón Castañón, Robert McKee Irwin

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Listening to Sicarios presents new insights into the lives of paid assassins of Mexico's drug trafficking syndicates from the perspectives of the assa... Lees meer

The Theater of Revisions in the Hispanic Caribbean

Katherine Ford

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• This book explores the textured process of rewriting and revising theatrical works in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean as both a material and metaphoric... Lees meer

Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry

Kenneth A Loparo

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Addressing the transnational relationships of Freemasonry, politics, and culture in the field of Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures... Lees meer

Carnal Inscriptions

S Antebi

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• This book explores manifestations of physical disability in Spanish American narrative fiction and performance, from José Martí's late nineteenth cent... Lees meer

New Argentine and Brazilian Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Reality Effects brings together the reflections of leading film scholars and critics from Latin America, the UK and the United States on the re-emerge... Lees meer

The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• This volume looks at the shifting role of aesthetics in Latin American literature and literary studies, focusing on the concept of 'ethical responsibi... Lees meer

Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza

A Cruz-Malavé

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• 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 ho... Lees meer

Redrawing the Nation

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• 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 identit... Lees meer

Other Worlds

G Aguilar

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and u... Lees meer

Velvet Barrios

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• In Chicano/a popular culture, nothing signifies the working class, highly-layered, textured, and metaphoric sensibility known as "rasquache aesthetic"... Lees meer

From Telenovelas to Netflix: Transnational, Transverse Television in Latin America

Joseph Straubhaar, Melissa Santillana, Vanessa de Macedo Higgins Joyce, Luiz Guilherme Duarte

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• This book is about television in Latin America. Its national and regional industries create most television programming there within genres developed ... Lees meer

Sports and Nationalism in Latin / O America

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• This collection interrogates sports in Latin America as a key terrain in which nation is defined and populations are interpellated through emotionally... Lees meer

Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Through a collection of critical essays, this work explores twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo , Americanism... Lees meer

The Theater of Revisions in the Hispanic Caribbean

Katherine Ford

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• This book explores the textured process of rewriting and revising theatrical works in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean as both a material and metaphoric... Lees meer

Viral Voyages

L Meruane

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• 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... Lees meer

Plant Theory in Amazonian Literature

Juan R Duchesne Winter

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• This book discusses new developments of plant studies and plant theory in the humanities and compares them to the exceptionally robust knowledge about... Lees meer

Bilingual Games

D Sommer

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• These essays bring home the most challenging observations of postmodernism-multiple identities, the fragility of meaning, the risks of communication. ... Lees meer

Centenary of the Famous 41

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• On November 17, 1901, Mexico City police raided a private party and arrested 41 men, half of whom were dressed as women. Clandestine transvestite ball... Lees meer

Plant Theory in Amazonian Literature

Juan R Duchesne Winter

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• This book discusses new developments of plant studies and plant theory in the humanities and compares them to the exceptionally robust knowledge about... Lees meer

New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• This volume explores the recent 'adolescent turn' in contemporary Latin American cinema, challenging many of the underlying assumptions about the natu... Lees meer

Velvet Barrios

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• In Chicana/o popular culture, nothing signifies the working class, highly-layered, textured, and metaphoric sensibility known as "rasquache aesthetic"... Lees meer

Remembering Maternal Bodies

B Trigo

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers... Lees meer