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  • Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature

    by Stephen C. Tobin ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Vision, Technology and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature interrogates an array of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories from Mexico whose themes engage directly with visual technologies and the subjectivities they help produce – all published during and influenced by the country’s neoliberal era. This book argues that television, computers, and ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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  • Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction

    by Lígia Bezerra ...
    Series Book 85 - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction is the first in-depth study to map out the representation of consumption in contemporary Brazilian prose, highlighting how our interactions with commodities connect seemingly disconnected areas of everyday life, such as eating habits, the growth of prosperity theology, and ideas of success and failure. It is also the first text to ... Read more

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  • Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema

    by Joanna Page ...
    There has been a significant surge in recent Argentine cinema, with an explosion in the number of films made in the country since the mid-1990s. Many of these productions have been highly acclaimed by critics in Argentina and elsewhere. What makes this boom all the more extraordinary is its coinciding with a period of severe economic crisis and civil unrest in the nation. Offering the first in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience

    Reading from the Mobile City

    by Benjamin Fraser ...
    An important contribution to the still evolving field of 'urban cultural studies,' Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thoughts on cities to the culture and literature of Spain. Fraser shows how Lefebvre's complex view of the city as a mobile phenomenon is relevant to understanding a variety of Spanish cultural ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing

    Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics

    Edited by Estrella Cibreiro, Francisca López ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and purposeful manner. The contributors analyze texts pertaining to all literary genres, examining a myriad of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Beyond Bolaño

    The Global Latin American Novel

    by Héctor Hoyos ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Connected Room of One's Own

    (Cyber)space and (self)management on the self

    by Remedios Zafra ...
    Series Book 5 - Señales
    A Connected Room of One's Own is an insightful essay about intimacy, about the spaces of privacy and the Internet; a book which sets out to ponder the challenges new online habits and customs pose to creativity, politics, and the management of our personal identities. It brings a broad range of disciplines to the discussion -from anthropology and sociology to philosophy and politics- certain to be ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • (Con)Fusing Signs and Postmodern Positions

    Spanish American Performance, Experimental Writing, and the Critique of Political Confusion

    by Robert Neustadt ...
    Series series Latin American Studies
    Foregrounding a strategy of experimental techniques which Neustadt call (con)fusing signs, the book explores critical and political dimensions of contemporary Spanish American artistic practices that are often explained away in the vague name of postmodern fragmentation. ( Con)Fusing Signs explores the techniques, consequences and purposes for this type of fragmentation. This study reassesses the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Constructing Spain

    The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953–2003

    by Nathan Richardson ...
    Does fiction do more than just represent space? Can our experiences with fictional storytelling be in themselves spatial? In Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, Nathan Richardson explores relations between cultural representation and spatial transformation across fifty years of Spanish culture. Beginning in 1953, the year Spanish space was officially ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Planet/Cuba

    Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island

    by Rachel Price ...
    Transformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel eraCuba has been in a state of massive transformation over the past decade, with its historic resumption of diplomatic relations with the United States only the latest development. While the political leadership has changed direction, other forces have taken hold. The environment is under threat, and the culture feels the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar

    Edited by Marvin D'Lugo, Kathleen M. Vernon ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
    A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar“Marvin D’Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon give us the ideal companion to Pedro Almodóvar’s films. Established and emerging writers offer a rainbow of insights for fans as well as academics.”Jerry W. Carlson, Professor of Film Studies, The City College & Graduate Center CUNY“Rarely has a contemporary film artist been treated to the kind of broad, rich discussion of their ... Read more

    $170.00 USD

  • Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel

    by Paul R. McAleer ...
    An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the utopian impulse. This book analyses these functions of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Fernando Vallejo and Jaime Bayly. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD