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Disidentifications
There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream …
Rain Forest Literatures
A redrawing of the lineage of Brazilian and Spanish-American literatures, this book advocates an understanding of the relationships between cultures as a process of …
Cuban Cinema
The earliest films made in Cuba—newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War—date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to have had an indigenous …
Scenes From Postmodern Life
Cuban Palimpsests
Four decades ago, the Cuban revolution captured the world’s attention and imagination. Its impact around the world was as much cultural as geopolitical. Within Cuba, the state …
Border Women
The first study to foreground writing by women who live at the U.S.-Mexico Border.It is a peculiar fact that U.S.-Mexico border theory is dominated by those who write about, not …
Consumers And Citizens
An essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power.Social Theory/Latin American StudiesAn essential analysis of the ways consumerism and …
Captive Women
Argentina is the only country in the Americas that has successfully erased the presence of Indians, Africans, and mestizos from its national story. Official documents, reports, and …
Transatlantic Topographies
After introducing the concept of tierra (land) as cultural as well as natural geography, Rodriguez (Spanish literatures and cultures, Ohio State U.) traces cross-cultural …
Scenes From Postmodern Life
Mexican Masculinities
A fascinating examination of masculinity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century MexicoThe first of its kind and a powerful challenge to customary views of gender and sexuality in the …
Queer Ricans
Exploring cultural expressions of Puerto Rican queer migration from the Caribbean to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes analyzes how …