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Bodies and Biases
University of Minnesota Press 1996; US$ 78.00Looking at a wide range of cultural practices and artifacts, including television, popular music, and pornography, Bodies and Biases addresses representations of sexual behavior and collective identity, homosexuality, and ideologies of gender in historical and contemporary Hispanic culture. more...
Easy Women
University of Minnesota Press 1998; US$ 90.00Combining early twentieth-century novels, current best-selling pulp fiction, and testimonial narratives, Castillo explores how Mexican writers have positioned the ?easy woman? in their works. more...
Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 100.00Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse contains analysis of sexual perversion and narrative creativity in fictions from the Latin American boom and post-boom. O'Connor's main argument is that orthodox criticism of Latin American literature has neglected the eccentric singularities of other fictive trends in the corpus (especially... more...
Rain Forest Literatures
University of Minnesota Press 2004; US$ 75.00In this unprecedented study, Lúcia Sá approaches indigenous texts as creative works rather than source material. She offers a historical overview of the impact of these texts on mainstream Spanish-American and Brazilian literatures, detailing comparisons with native sources and making close analyses of major instances, such as Mário de Andrade?s classic... more...
Tradition and Modernity in Spanish American Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 95.00Modernity in Spanish America has been viewed as a condition of the first half of the 20th century whose major political, philosophical and cultural assumptions the region would do well to leave behind. This book explores a corpus of Spanish-American literary texts from that 'modern' period which dramatize the constitutive dynamics of modernity. more...
Unfolding the City
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 72.00The city is not only built of towers of steel and glass; it is a product of culture. It plays an especially important role in Latin America, where urban areas hold a near-monopoly on resources and are home to an expanding population. The essays in this collection assert that women?s views of the city are unique and revealing. For the first time, Unfolding... more...
Taking Their Word
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 67.50In Taking Their Word, Arias complicates notions of the cultural production of Central America. Arias demonstrates that Central America and its literature are marked by an indigenousness that has never before been fully theorized or critically grasped. With this groundbreaking work, Arias establishes the importance of Central American literature and... more...
Federico Garcia Lorca
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 33.95Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Dalí, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico García Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond. This study offers a fresh examination of one of the Spanish language?s most resonant voices; exploring how the very factors which led to his emergence... more...
A Critical History of French Children's Literature
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95These books are the first full-length, comprehensive study written in English of French children?s literature. They provide both an overview of developments from the seventeenth century to the present day and detailed discussion of texts that are representative, innovative, or influential best-sellers in their own time and beyond. French children?s... more...
Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism
University of Minnesota Press 2008; US$ 67.50Estelle Taricas work shows how modern Mexican and Andean discourses about the relationship between Indians and non-Indians create a unique literary aesthetic that is instrumental in defining the experience of mestizo nationalism. Engaging with narratives by Jesús Lara, José María Arguedas, and Rosario Castellanos, among others,... more...









