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Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs
This book explores the current human rights crisis created by the War on Drugs in Mexico. It focuses on three vulnerable communities that have felt the impacts of this war firsthand: undocumented Central American migrants in transit to the United States, journalists who report on violence in highly dangerous regions, and the mourning relatives of victims of severe crimes, who take collective action by participating in human rights investigations and searching for their missing loved ones. Analyzing contemporary novels, journalistic chronicles, testimonial works, and documentaries, the book reveals the political potential of these communities’ vulnerability and victimization portrayed in these fictional and non-fictional representations. Violence against migrants, journalists, and activists reveals an array of human rights violations affecting the right to safe transit across borders, freedom of expression, the right to information, and the right to truth and justice.
Llamadas de Ámsterdam
Hay imágenes que llegan para quedarse. La silueta de Juan Jesús, protagonista de Llamadas de Ámsterdam, enfundado en su pesado gabán y caminando bajo la lluvia por una de las más emblemáticas calles de la Ciudad de México es una de ellas. Esto lo confirma la vitalidad que esta breve novela mantiene en el gusto del público a diez años de su publicación. El vértigo de todo ímpetu amoroso, la precisión de los silencios, un humor sutil y carismático, una atmósfera que captura la elegancia del desasosiego, Juan Villoro condensa en estas páginas los elementos de una escritura que ha sabido producir más de un clásico contemporáneo. Llamadas de Ámsterdam es sin duda uno de los li...
Nahuatl Nations
Nahuatl Nations is a linguistic ethnography that explores the political relations between those Indigenous communities of Mexico that speak the Nahuatl language and the Mexican Nation that claims it as an important national symbol. Author Magnus Pharao Hansen studies how this relation has been shaped by history and how it plays out today in Indigenous Nahua towns, regions, and educational institutions, and in the Mexican diaspora. He argues that Indigenous languages are likely to remain vital as long as they used as languages of political community, and they also protect the community's sovereignty by functioning as a barrier that restricts access to the participation for outsiders. Semiotic sovereignty therefore becomes a key concept for understanding how Indigenous communities can maintain both their political and linguistic vitality. While the Mexican Nation seeks to expropriate Indigenous semiotic resources in order to improve its brand on an international marketplace, Indigenous communities may employ them in resistance to state domination.
The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation
The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation offers an understanding of translation in Latin America both at a regional and transnational scale. Broad in scope, it is devoted primarily to thinking comprehensively and systematically about the intersection of literary translation and Latin American literature, with a curated selection of original essays that critically engage with translation theories and practices outside of hegemonic Anglo centers. In this introductory volume, through survey and case-study chapters, contributing authors cover literary and cultural translation in the region historically, geographically, and linguistically. From the nineteenth to the twenty-fi...
Black Sun Rising / La Corazonada
The first Western noir by Barry Gifford, "a killer fuckin' writer." (David Lynch) Based on historical events in 1851, this Western noir novella traces the struggle of the first integrated Native American tribe to establish themselves on the North American continent. After escaping the Oklahoma relocation camps they had been placed in following their forced evacuation from Florida, the Seminole Indians banded with fugitive slaves from the American South to fulfill the vision of their leader, Coyote, to establish their land in Mexico's Nacimiento. The Mexican government allowed them initially to settle in Mexico near the Texas-Mexico border, in exchange for guarding nearby villages from bands ...
Female Friendship
This volume focuses on the literary and artistic exploration of female friendship in various geographical contexts, spanning the centuries from the medieval period until the present. The essays address the intense female bonding in world literature as a universal human need for intimacy, sense of belonging, and purpose. The main focus is on the reevaluation of friendships between women, which have been traditionally less epitomized than those between men. The authors of this volume demonstrate how the emotional unions of women offer compelling insights to various historical and contemporary societies, helping us understand gender relations, traditions, family life, and community values.
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Luego de que el terremoto de 1957 expulsara a su familia del cosmopolita centro de la Ciudad de México, Mauricio Guardiola vive su infancia y adolescencia en las calles de Terminal Progreso, un vecindario incrustado en el paisaje semirrural de Xochimilco que parece haber cristalizado las promesas de un futuro brillante en simple nostalgia por el porvenir. A la sombra de su padre –un arquitecto vehemente y mujeriego, obsesionado por plasmar la identidad mexicana en sus construcciones– y acechado por las frases edificantes que su madre pega en la puerta del refrigerador, Mauricio se inicia en la sexualidad, la amistad, el enamoramiento y la búsqueda de vocación de la mano de una serie d...
Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature
Vision, Technology and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature interrogates an array of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories from Mexico whose themes engage directly with visual technologies and the subjectivities they help produce – all published during and influenced by the country’s neoliberal era. This book argues that television, computers, and smartphones and the literary narratives that treat them all correspond to separate-yet-overlapping scopic regimes within the country today. Amidst the shifts occurring in the country’s field of vision during this period, the authors of these cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk narratives imagine how these devi...
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