Fiction - Latinx Reads
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Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Dirty Realism: Reinventing Cuban Spaces
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /This work examines Gutiérrez's Centro Habana Cycle (1998-2003) as a literary response to the social, political, and economic crisis of Cuba's Spec...
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Black in Print: Plotting the Coordinates of Blackness in Central America
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Black in Print examines the role of narrative, from traditional writing to new media, in conversations about race and belonging in the isthmus. I...
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The Manuscript Hunter: Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels Through Central America and Mexico, 1854-1859 Volume 84
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In two decades of traveling throughout Mexico, Central America, and Europe, French priest Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) amass...
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Virgil: Aeneid Book XII
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Book XII brings Virgil's Aeneid to a close, as the long-delayed single combat between Aeneas and Turnus ends with Turnus' death - a finale that man...
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The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A fascinating look at a pivotal period in Zora Neale Hurston's life that reimagines her complicated legacy.Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist an...
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Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, ...
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Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, ...
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Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /During the colonial period in Guyana, the country's coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, S...
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Caribbean Folk Tales: Stories from the Islands and the Windrush Generation
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Caribbean folk tales set alongside local reminiscences of 1950s migration from the Caribbean to Britain Caribbean islands are rich in oral stories...
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The Classics in South America: Five Case Studies
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This volume examines the long and complex history of the Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the Classics have played a crucial, t...
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Untold Microcosms: Latin American Writers in the British Museum
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Collection, colonialism, translation, and the ephemera that shapes the stories we tell about ourselves.Featuring new original works by: Yásnaya Ele...
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Capturing Mariposas: Reading Cultural Schema in Gay Chicano Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Gay Chicano/Latinx literature often holds an intensely personal meaning for its readers, sometimes being the first artistic expression encountered ...
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Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance
HardcoverOriginal price $84.00 - Original price $84.00Original price $84.00$100.99$100.99 - $100.99Current price $100.99| /Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century t...
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Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
PaperbackOriginal price $26.50 - Original price $26.50Original price $26.50$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /On January 1, 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared the independence of Haiti, thus bringing to an end the only successful slave revolution in his...
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Love Poems from Spain and Spanish America
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The nearly seventy poems in this bilingual anthology are concerned with many kinds of love: erotic love, sublime love, filial love, maternal love...
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Nuhuatl Theater: Our Lady of Guadalupe
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /The foundation legend of the Mexican devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the most appealing and beloved of all religious stories. In this...
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Neobaroque in the Americas: Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twen...
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False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992)
HardcoverOriginal price $129.95 - Original price $129.95Original price $129.95$158.99$158.99 - $158.99Current price $158.99| /False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975–1992) examines the “return of history” that swept across ...
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False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992)
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992) examines the “return of history” that swept across ...
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Poetics of Relation
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Édouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly a...
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Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives From Colombians Displaced by Violence
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /For nearly five decades, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary militias, and the country’s ...
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Poetic Intention
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this first English-language translation of Poetic Intention, Glissant argues for the importance of the global position of art. He states that a ...
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The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji. Exploring iterations ...
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The Oxford Handbook of Central American History
HardcoverOriginal price $165.00 - Original price $165.00Original price $165.00$189.99$189.99 - $189.99Current price $189.99| /Central America is a region defined primarily by its geographical configuration as a canal-friendly isthmus, and its three-century history as the S...
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