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  • Rewriting the Chicano Movement

    New Histories of Mexican American Activism in the Civil Rights Era

    Edited by Mario T. García, Ellen McCracken ...
    The Chicano Movement, el movimiento, is known as the largest and most expansive civil rights and empowerment movement by Mexican Americans up to that time. It made Chicanos into major American political actors and laid the foundation for today’s Latino political power. Rewriting the Chicano Movement is a collection of powerful new essays on the Chicano Movement that expand and revise our ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Life and Writing of Fray Angélico Chávez

    A New Mexico Renaissance Man

    by Ellen McCracken ...
    Series series Pasó Por Aquí Series in the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage
    Winner of the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library AssociationAs a teenager, Manuel Chávez (1910-1996) left his native New Mexico for over a decade of study at the St. Francis Seraphic Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, and other midwestern institutions. Included in his curriculum was an introduction to literature and the arts that piqued an interest that would follow him the remainder ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Fray Angélico Chávez

    Poet, Priest, and Artist

    Edited by Ellen McCracken ...
    Series series Pasó Por Aquí Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage
    New Mexico's first Franciscan priest, Fray Angélico Cheavez (1910-1996) is known as a prolific historian, a literary and artistic figure, and an intellectual who played a vital role in Santa Fe's community of writers. The original essays collected here explore his wide-ranging cultural production: fiction, poetry, architectural restoration, journalism, genealogy, translation, and painting and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Paratexts and Performance in the Novels of Junot Díaz and Sandra Cisneros

    by Ellen McCracken ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Part of a new phase of post-1960s U.S. Latino literature, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz and Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros both engage in unique networks of paratexts that center on the performance of latinidad. Here, Ellen McCracken re-envisions Gérard Genette's paratexts for the present day, arguing that the Internet increases the range, authorship, and reach of the paratextual ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Serial Podcast and Storytelling in the Digital Age

    Edited by Ellen McCracken ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Digital Media and Culture
    This volume analyzes the Serial podcast, situating it in the trajectory of other popular crime narratives and contemporary cultural theory. Contributors focus on topics such as the ethics of the use of fiction techniques in investigative journalism, the epistemological overlay of postmodern indeterminacy, and the audience’s prolific activity in social media, examining the competing narrative ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Our Lady of Guadalupe

    Mother of the Civilization of Love

    by Carl Anderson, Eduardo Chavez ...
    Nearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary of conversion, the newly-appointed bishop-elect of Mexico wrote to tell the King of Spain that, unless there was a miracle, the continent would be lost. Between December 9 and December 12, 1531, that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Colonial Latin American Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rolena Adorno ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World. A leading scholar of colonial Latin American literature, Rolena Adorno examines the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Junípero Serra

    California's Founding Father

    by Steven W. Hackel ...
    A portrait of the priest and colonialist who is one of the most important figures in California's historyIn the 1770s, just as Britain's American subjects were freeing themselves from the burdens of colonial rule, Spaniards moved up the California coast to build frontier outposts of empire and church. At the head of this effort was Junípero Serra, an ambitious Franciscan who hoped to convert ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Romanesque Architecture and its Sculptural in Christian Spain, 1000-1120

    Exploring Frontiers and Defining Identities

    by Janice Mann ...
    The decades following the year 1000 marked a watershed in the history of the Iberian Peninsula when the balance of power shifted from Muslims to Christians. During this crucial period of religious and political change, Romanesque churches were constructed for the first time in Spain. Romanesque Architecture and Its Sculptural Decoration in Christian Spain, 1000-1120 examines how the financial ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • 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

    $34.19 USD

  • The Literature of Spain and Latin America

    by J.E. Luebering ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to World Literature
    From the whimsical idealism of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote to the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez’s 100 Years of Solitude, Spanish-language literature has substantially enriched the global literary canon. This volume examines the vibrant prose and dynamic range of both Spanish and Latin American authors, whose narratives are informed as much by their imaginations as the turbulent ... Read more

    $42.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mary, Mother and Warrior

    The Virgin in Spain and the Americas

    by Linda B. Hall ...
    A Mother who nurtures, empathizes, and heals... a Warrior who defends, empowers, and resists oppression... the Virgin Mary plays many roles for the peoples of Spain and Spanish-speaking America. Devotion to the Virgin inspired and sustained medieval and Renaissance Spaniards as they liberated Spain from the Moors and set about the conquest of the New World. Devotion to the Virgin still inspires ... Read more

    $31.99 USD