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  • The Sun of Jesús del Monte

    A Cuban Antislavery Novel

    by Andrés Avelino de Orihuela ...
    Translated by David Luis-Brown ...
    Series series Writing the Early Americas
    Translated into English for the first time, Andrés Avelino de Orihuela’s El Sol de Jesús del Monte is a landmark Cuban antislavery novel. Published originally in 1852, the same year as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (which Orihuela had translated into Spanish), it provides an uncompromising critique of discourses of white superiority and an endorsement of equality for free people of ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Waves of Decolonization

    Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States

    by David Luis-Brown, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown reveals how between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization, of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire. They did so decades before the decolonization of Africa and Asia in the mid-twentieth century. Analyzing the work of nationalist leaders, novelists ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • When Women Kill

    by Alia Trabucco Zerán ...
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    A genre-bending feminist account of the lives and crimes of four women who committed the double transgression of murder, violating not only criminal law but also the invisible laws of gender.When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zerán offers a nuanced ... Read more

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  • Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

    by Fernando Sorrentino, Clark M. Zlotchew ...
    These wide-ranging conversations have an exceptionally open and intimate tone, giving us a personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature.Interviewer Fernando Sorrentino, an Argentinian writer and anthologist, is endowed with literary acumen, sensitivity, urbanity, and an encyclopedic memory of Jorge Luis Borges' work (in his prologue, Borges jokes that ... Read more

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  • The Hidden History of Capoeira

    A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance

    by Maya Talmon-Chvaicer ...
    Capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, has become popular all over the world. First brought to Brazil by African slaves and first documented in the late eighteenth century, capoeira has undergone many transformations as it has diffused throughout Brazilian society and beyond, taking on a multiplicity of meanings for those who participate in it and for the societies in which it is ... Read more

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  • Maya or Mestizo?

    Nationalism, Modernity, and its Discontents

    by Ronald Loewe ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    The Maya of the Yucatán have long been drawn into the Mexican state's attempt to create modern Mexican citizens (mestizos). At the same time, they have contended with globalization pressures, first with hemp production and more recently with increased tourism and the fast-growing influence of American-based evangelical Protestantism. Despite these pressures to turn Maya into mestizo, the citizens ... Read more

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  • Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance

    Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

    by Umi Vaughan ...
    Rebel Dance, Renegade Stanceshows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance. Umi Vaughan, an African American anthropologist, musician, dancer, and photographer "plantao" in Cuba—planted, living like a ... Read more

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  • José Martí

    A Revolutionary Life (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

    by Alfred J. López ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    "The one and only book that treats the nineteenth-century Cuban figure José Martí as a human instead of an idol, an apostle, or an unblemished personality." —Tom Miller, author of Revenge of the SaguaroJosé Martí (1853–1895) was the founding hero of Cuban independence. In all of modern Latin American history, arguably only the "Great Liberator" Simón Bolívar rivals Martí in stature and legacy. ... Read more

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  • Conceiving Freedom

    Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

    by Camillia Cowling ...
    In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant ... Read more

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  • Annals of Native America

    How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive

    by Camilla Townsend ...
    For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters taught to them by the friars and used the new alphabet to record historical performances by elders. Between them, they ... Read more

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  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Read more

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