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International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia
First Published in 1996. This encyclopedia is unique in several ways. As the first international reference source on publishing, it is a pioneering venture. Our aim is to provide comprehensive discussion and analysis of key subjects relating to books and publishing worldwide. The sixty-four essays included here feature not only factual and statistical information about the topic, but also analysis and evaluation of those facts and figures. The chapters are significantly more comprehensive than those typically found in an encyclopedia.
Life on the Hyphen
An expanded, updated edition of the classic study of Cuban-American culture, this engaging book, which mixes the author’s own story with his reflections as a trained observer, explores how both famous and ordinary members of the “1.5 Generation” (Cubans who came to the United States as children or teens) have lived “life on the hyphen”—neither fully Cuban nor fully American, but a fertile hybrid of both. Offering an in-depth look at Cuban-Americans who have become icons of popular and literary culture—including Desi Arnaz, Oscar Hijuelos, musician Pérez Prado, and crossover pop star Gloria Estefan, as well as poets José Kozer and Orlando González Esteva, performers Willy Chirino and Carlos Oliva, painter Humberto Calzada, and others—Gustavo Pérez Firmat chronicles what it means to be Cuban in America. The first edition of Life on the Hyphen won the Eugene M. Kayden National University Press Book Award and received honorable mentions for the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Book Award.
Cuban-American Literature and Art
This groundbreaking collection offers an understanding of why Cuban-American literature and visual art have emerged in the United States and how they are so essentially linked to both Cuban and American cultures. The contributors explore crucial issues pertinent not only to Cuban-American cultural production but also to other immigrant groups—hybrid identities, biculturation, bilingualism, immigration, adaptation, and exile. The complex ways in which Cuban Americans have been able to keep a living memory of Cuba while developing and thriving in America are both intriguing and instructive. These essays, written from a variety of perspectives, range from useful overviews of fictional and visual works of art to close readings of individual texts.
Nationalist Myths and Ethnic Identities
This timely study examines the processes by which modern states are created within multiethnic societies. How are national identities forged from countries made up of peoples with different and often conflicting cultures, languages, and histories? How successful is this process? What is lost and gained from the emergence of national identities? Natividad Gutiérrez examines the development of the modern Mexican state to address these difficult questions. She describes how Mexican national identity has been and is being created and evaluates the effectiveness of that process of state-building. Her investigation is distinguished by a critical consideration of cross-cultural theories of nationa...
Print Culture through the Ages
Print Culture Through the Ages: Essays on Latin American Book History, is a compendium of specialized essays by renowned scholars from Mexico, the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, France, and Colombia that focuses on various topics involving the evolution of printing, reading publics, the publishing process and literary development during periods of political and cultural change in Latin America. The volume has four primary areas of concern, namely “Labors of the Printing Press, Typography and Editing”; “Books and Readers in the Colonial Period”; “New Forms of Literary Consumption”; “The Press and Its Readers”. It will be of particular interest to scholars in the areas of literature, book history, print culture and images.
Latin-American Women Writers
This book describes how Latin-American women writers of all classes, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, ironize masculinist, classicist, and racist cliches in their narratives.
Los caminos de los libros
Río de Janeiro, periodo colonial. La vida no era fácil para alguien que quería leer un libro. La Corona portuguesa impidió la impresión en Brasil hasta que la familia real se mudó allí durante el periodo de las invasiones napoleónicas. Antes y después del cambio, el contacto con los libros estuvo fuertemente controlado por los organismos de censura, que eran responsables de sancionar lo que se podía leer, escribir e imprimir. Sin embargo, no era imposible tener acceso a los libros. Sometiéndose a las exigencias de la censura o siguiendo los caminos de la ilegalidad, las obras llegaban a manos de quienes las buscaban: textos religiosos y de oficios eran muy apetecidos, pero también las bellas letras —especialmente la novela— gozaban de especial interés. Los caminos de los libros cuenta una parte de esta historia: cómo fue la censura en Portugal y Brasil, descubre los títulos más populares y arroja luces sobre los modos de lectura y las personas que habitaron ese mundo.
Encounter with Memory
[This book Encounter with Memory] is “authoritative biographical information on Garro” Latin American Women Writers an Encyclopedia by Maria Cludia André @ Eva Paulina Bueno Eds. Routledge, New York and London, 2008 p194 Encounter with Memory..., which resulted in a recollection of events to rebuild a puzzle left by Elena Garro. The valuable information that the book delivers emerged from many intense and enriching conversations between Elena Garro and the critic, Rhina Toruño, in which Garro tells unedited intimate details and surprising events of her life. Dr Mara Garcia, Brigham Young University, Chasqui Journal of the Latin-American Literature .Vol34 # 1, May 2005, 219. “The fascinating biography of a woman who dared to question the government and politics of her time , has been compiled in Toruño’s book Encounter with Memory: Elena Garro Recounts her Life Story to Rhina Toruño...” Myra Salcedo of the UTPB Public Information Office OAOA April 10, 2005 7D.
Culture and Revolution
In the twenty years of postrevolutionary rule in Mexico, the war remained fresh in the minds of those who participated in it, while the enigmas of the revolution remained obscured. Demonstrating how textuality helped to define the revolution, Culture and Revolution examines dozens of seemingly ahistorical artifacts to reveal the radical social shifts that emerged in the war’s aftermath. Presented thematically, this expansive work explores radical changes that resulted from postrevolution culture, including new internal migrations; a collective imagining of the future; popular biographical narratives, such as that of the life of Frida Kahlo; and attempts to create a national history that un...
New World Literacy
This book on the role of written and iconographic communication in the Atlantic World combines a broad outlook, geographically and chronologically, with the precise treatment of specific evidence extracted from the sources. The author argues that diatribes against chivalric fiction and the Index of Prohibited Books did not prevent proscribed literature from circulating freely on both sides of the Atlantic. On the contrary, he notes, such prohibitions may have increased the lure of certain books. A description of the process of registering and inspecting ships in Seville and upon reaching their destinations highlights opportunities for contraband, smuggling, fraud, and the corruption of offic...
