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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ariana e vigil”
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  • Understanding Francisco Goldman

    by Ariana E. Vigil ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    The first book-length study of a writer whose work has been shaped by his unique heritageAward-winning writer and journalist Francisco Goldman is the author of novels and works of nonfiction and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine. His awards include the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the T. R. Fyvel Book Award, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born to a Guatemalan ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Public Negotiations

    Gender and Journalism in Contemporary US Latina/o Literature

    by Ariana E. Vigil ...
    Series series Global Latin/o Americas
    Ariana E. Vigil’s interdisciplinary study, Public Negotiations: Gender and Journalism in Contemporary US Latina/o Literature examines how the boundaries of the Latina/o public sphere are negotiated through mass media. : Focusing on a wide range of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latina/o literary texts that feature Latina/o media figures—works by Lucha Corpi, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Cherríe Moraga, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • War Echoes

    Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production

    by Ariana E. Vigil ...
    War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post–Viet Nam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, memoir, and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political, and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o responses to U.S. intervention in Central America and the Middle East. These responses evolved over the ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

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  • The Hold Life Has

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  • Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue

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  • Mexploitation Cinema: A Critical History of Mexican Vampire, Wrestler, Ape-Man and Similar Films, 1957-1977

    A Critical History of Mexican Vampire, Wrestler, Ape-Man and Similar Films, 1957-1977

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  • Genocide as Social Practice

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