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Family Matters
Adopting a comparative and multidisciplinary approach to Puerto Rican literature, Marisel Moreno juxtaposes narratives by insular and U.S. Puerto Rican women authors in order to examine their convergences and divergences. By showing how these writers use the trope of family to question the tenets of racial and social harmony, an idealized past, and patriarchal authority that sustain the foundational myth of la gran familia, she argues that this metaphor constitutes an overlooked literary contact zone between narratives from both sides. Moreno proposes the recognition of a "transinsular" corpus to reflect the increasingly transnational character of the Puerto Rican population and addresses the need to broaden the literary canon in order to include the diaspora. Drawing on the fields of historiography, cultural studies, and gender studies, the author defies the tendency to examine these literary bodies independently of one another and therefore aims to present a more nuanced and holistic vision of this literature.
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures
This new three-volume encyclopedia features over 4,000 entries on more than 40 regions in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1920 to the present day.
Between the Sword and the Wall
Chronicles the peace process negotiations between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia In Between the Sword and the Wall: The Santos Peace Negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Harvey Kline, a noted expert on contemporary Colombian politics, brings to a close his multivolume chronicle of the incessant violence that has devastated Colombia’s population, politics, and military for decades. This, his newest work on the subject, recounts and analyzes the negotiations between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which ended with a peace agreement in 2...
Doce horas contigo
Charo oculta una relación fugaz a Pili y Rosi, sus mejores amigas, guardándose para sí una esfera de intimidad que de un plomazo se verá interrumpida por acontecimientos inesperados, los cuales determinarán su encuentro con alguien creído lejano. "Doce Horas Contigo" es una prueba a la amistad y a los valores medidos desde parámetros de sociedades diferenciadas en las que la mujer ha venido desarrollando independencia.
La Sombra de La Dictadura
La Sombra de la dictadura es una novela de la vida real. Es una historia que vivió el pueblo paraguayo en la época de la dictadura, años de sufrimiento y de dolor, un buen día salió de la sombra a luchar por la paz y por la dignidad de su pueblo así empezó la lucha por derrocar al despiadado dictadura. Juan experimento la dictadura con su propia vida, por eso escribió tal como lo sintió los sufrimiento de su pueblo y de la familia paraguaya en aquella época. Fueron crueles los días, fueron días grises y dolorosos aquellos días para todos los pueblos. Escribió con su puño y dolor cada sufrimiento de su pueblo, quedara plasmada por siempre la historia de la familia de esta historia. Juan salió de su país en busca de nuevos horizonte, la dictadura no le dio oportunidad de sobresalir en nada así llego a la tierra de oportunidades y ahora vive en New York tratando de olvidar los tiempos sangrientos de la época de la dictadura.
Cinemachismo
After the modern Mexican state came into being following the Revolution of 1910, hyper-masculine machismo came to be a defining characteristic of "mexicanidad," or Mexican national identity. Virile men (pelados and charros), virtuous prostitutes as mother figures, and minstrel-like gay men were held out as desired and/or abject models not only in governmental rhetoric and propaganda, but also in literature and popular culture, particularly in the cinema. Indeed, cinema provided an especially effective staging ground for the construction of a gendered and sexualized national identity. In this book, Sergio de la Mora offers the first extended analysis of how Mexican cinema has represented masc...
Struggles for Recognition
Struggles for Recognition traces the emergence of melodrama in Latin American silent film and silent film culture. Juan Sebastián Ospina León draws on extensive archival research to reveal how melodrama visualized and shaped the social arena of urban modernity in early twentieth-century Latin America. Analyzing sociocultural contexts through film, this book demonstrates the ways in which melodrama was mobilized for both liberal and illiberal ends, revealing or concealing social inequities from Buenos Aires to Bogotá to Los Angeles. Ospina León critically engages Euro-American and Latin American scholarship seldom put into dialogue, offering an innovative theorization of melodrama relevant to scholars working within and across different national contexts.
There's a Name for this Feeling: Stories / Hay un nombre para lo que siento: cuentos
In the title story, Lucinda hatches a clever plan to get her boyfriend back and is crushed when she ultimately realizes that itÍs impossible to force a guy to love you. Like all young people, she ignores the advice of her mom and learns that lessonand many morethe hard way. In this bilingual collection of ten short stories for young people, kids deal with both serious and humorous consequences after they ignore their parentsÍ suggestions and disobey rules. At a friendÍs house on New YearÍs Eve, Raymond plays with fireworks even though he promised his parents he wouldnÍt. Kids on a track team search for a mysterious naked woman with embarrassing results. And two girls in a wax museum...
