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Study of the Raft
Winner of the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry In Study of the Raft, Leonora Simonovis’s poems weave the outer world of a failed political revolution in her native country, Venezuela, with an inner journey into the memories of migration and exile, of a home long gone, and of family relations, especially among womxn. The collection explores the consequences of colonization, starting with “Maps,” a poem that speaks of loss and uprootedness, recalling a time when indigenous lands were stolen and occupied, where stories were lost as new languages and beliefs were imposed on people. The politics of the present are also the politics of the past, not just in the Venezuelan context, but in many other Latin American and Caribbean countries. It is the reality of all indigenous people. Simonovis’s poems question the capacity of language to represent the complexity of lived experience, especially when it involves living from more than one language and culture. These poems wrestle with questions of life and death, of what remains after what and whom we know are no longer with us, and how we, as humans, constantly change and adjust in the face of uncertainty.
Study of the Raft
"In Study of the Raft, Leonora Simonovis's poems weave the outer world of a failed political revolution in her native country, Venezuela, with an inner journey into the memories of migration and exile, of a home long gone, and of family relations, especially among women. The collection explores the consequences of colonization, starting with "Maps," a poem that speaks of loss and uprootedness, recalling a time when indigenous lands were stolen and occupied, where stories were lost as new languages and beliefs were imposed on people. The politics of the present are also the politics of the past, not just in the Venezuelan context, but in many other Latin American and Caribbean countries. It is the reality of all indigenous people. Simonovis's poems question the capacity of language to represent the complexity of lived experience, especially when it involves living from more than one language and culture. These poems wrestle with questions of life and death, of what remains after what and whom we know are no longer with us, and how we, as humans, constantly change and adjust in the face of uncertainty"--
Moving Beyond Borders
Moving Beyond Borders examines the life and accomplishments of Julian Samora, the first Mexican American sociologist in the United States and the founding father of the discipline of Latino studies. Detailing his distinguished career at the University of Notre Dame from 1959 to 1984, the book documents the history of the Mexican American Graduate Studies program that Samora established at Notre Dame and traces his influence on the evolution of border studies, Chicano studies, and Mexican American studies. Samora's groundbreaking ideas opened the way for Latinos to understand and study themselves intellectually and politically, to analyze the complex relationships between Mexicans and Mexican...
The Woman in Latin American and Spanish Literature
Noted scholars of Latin American and Spanish literature here explore the literary history of Latin America through the representation of iconic female characters. Focusing both on canonical novels and on works virtually unknown outside their original countries, the essays discuss the important ways in which these characters represent nature, history, race and sex, the effects of globalization, and the unknowable "other." They examine how both male and female writers portray Latin American women, reinterpreting the dynamics between the genders across boundaries and historical periods. Drawing on recent theories in literary criticism, gender, and Latin American studies, these essays illuminate the women characters as conduits for the appreciation of their countries and cultures.
The American Dream and Dreams Deferred
The American Dream and Dreams Deferred: A Dialectical Fairy Tale shows how rival interpretations of the Dream reveal the dialectical tensions therein. Exploring often neglected voices, literatures, and histories, Carlton D. Floyd and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer highlight moments when the American Dream appears both simultaneously possible and out of reach. In so doing, the authors invite readers to make a new collective dream of a better future, on socially just, multicultural, and ecologically sustainable foundations.
Writing/Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage
The tenth volume in the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Series, this collection of essays reflects on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the project’s efforts to locate, identify, preserve and disseminate the literary contributions of US Latinos from the Spanish Colonial Period to contemporary times. Essays by scholars recalling the beginnings of the project cover a wide range of topics: origins, identity, archival research, institutional politics and pedagogy. From recollections about funding to personal reminiscences, the recovery of Jewish Hispanic heritage and the intellectual project of reframing American history and literature, these articles provide a fascinating look at t...
I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood
For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and public histories, explicating memories and muses around race, elegy, family, and faith by making and breaking forms as well as probing mythology, literary history, her own ancestry, and, yes, even Rihanna. I Can’t Talk About the Trees without the Blood, because Tiana cannot engage with the physical and psychic landscape of the South without seeing the braided trauma of the broken past—she will always see blood on the leaves.
El tránsito vacilante
El tránsito vacilante plantea un estudio minucioso de las más recientes tendencias estéticas y temáticas en la cultura venezolana contemporánea. La antología reúne doce ensayos fundamentales para una mejor comprensión de la diversidad discursiva de las prácticas culturales del nuevo milenio. Esta colección recoge un amplio abanico de acercamientos teórico-críticos al quehacer cultural producido tanto en Venezuela como en la diáspora. El tránsito vacilante es el primer esfuerzo colectivo dedicado a investigar la representación de un periodo histórico —marcado por importantes cambios sociales y políticos desencadenados con el advenimiento de la Revolución bolivariana— en la literatura, el cine y las artes plásticas.
Justicia y paz en la novela de crímenes
Este libro recoge algunos trabajos que hicieron parte del Congreso Internacional de Literatura Medellín Negro, y de colaboradores invitados a esta edición para resolver preguntas como estas: ¿En la novela que da cuenta de un sistema agobiado por la criminalidad se pueden encontrar pautas de justicia y paz? ¿Cuáles son las ideas de justicia y paz expuestas por los escritores contemporáneos? ¿En el campo literario de la novela de crímenes, cuáles son los caminos posibles para la paz? Coedición con la Universidad de Antioquia, el Grupo de Estudios Literarios GEL, y Medellín Negro.
Violencia, Poder y Afectos
Violencia, poder y afectos: narrativas del miedo en Latinoamérica ofrece una contribución crítica al estudio de las representaciones de los miedos sociopolíticos en la literatura y el cine contemporáneos. Este volumen estudia las consecuencias inmediatas y de larga duración de la violencia y el terror en las sociedades latinoamericanas desde varias perspectivas teóricas. Los capítulos del libro abordan dos preguntas centrales: cómo se han asumido, asimilado y representado los diversos temores sociopolíticos que caracterizan a unas sociedades marcadas por el conflicto, la represión y el abuso de poder? y cómo este afecto ha marcado los discursos estéticos e ideológicos de las pr...
