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  • Mi María: Surviving the Storm

    Voices from Puerto Rico.

    Edición de Ricia Anne Chansky, Marci Denesiuk ...
    Series series Voice of Witness
    When Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, it left no part of the archipelago unscathed. The hurricane triggered floods and mudslides, washed out roads, destroyed tens of thousands of homes, farms, and businesses, caused the largest blackout in US history, knocked out communications, led to widespread food, drinking water, and gasoline shortages, and caused thousands of ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Life Writing Outside the Lines

    Gender and Genre in the Americas

    Edición de Eva C. Karpinski, Ricia Chansky ...
    Designed as a contribution to the field of transnational comparative American studies, this book focuses on gender in life writing that exceeds the boundaries of traditional genres.The contributors engage with authors who bend genres to speak gender as it manifests in multiple shapes in different geographic locations across the Americas, and especially as it intersects with race and migration, war ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Auto/Biography in the Americas

    Relational Lives

    Edición de Ricia Chansky ...
    Auto/Biography in the Americas: Relational Lives brings together scholars from disparate geographic regions, cultural perspectives, linguistic frameworks, and disciplinary backgrounds to explore what connects narrated lives in the Americas. By interweaving scholarship on Afro-diasporic subjectivities, gendered narratives, lives in translation, celebrity auto/biographies, and pedagogical approaches ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Auto/Biography across the Americas

    Transnational Themes in Life Writing

    Edición de Ricia A. Chansky ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas—whether chosen or forced—motivates the ways in which identities are constructed in this contested space. Such movement results in a cyclical quest to belong, and to ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • Hemispheric Imaginations

    North American Fictions of Latin America

    de Helmbrecht Breinig ...
    What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this construction and added layers of complexity that subvert any approach based on stereotypes? ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Undocumented Americans

    de Karla Cornejo Villavicencio ...
    Series series One World Essentials
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.**“Karla’s book sheds light on people’s personal experiences and allows their stories to be told and their voices to be heard.”—Selena GomezFINALIST FOR THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

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  • Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman - Biography of a Billionaire Fugitive

    de James Bush ...
    The U.S. Treasury Department called Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman "the world's most powerful drug trafficker."Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has appeared on Forbes list of the world's richest people, with an estimated fortune of $1 billion.While, El Chapo has a $7 million dollar bounty on his head after a prison escape in 2001, he's received a number of accolades. His story is compelling ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Ghostly Matters

    Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

    de Avery F. Gordon ...
    “Avery Gordon’s stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. ” —George Lipsitz“The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny.” —American Studies International“Ghostly Matters immediately establishes Avery Gordon as a leader among her generation of social and cultural ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Battle for Paradise

    Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

    de Naomi Klein ...
    Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfolding in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico" (Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)"We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a path ... Leer más

    $8.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Translation and Identity in the Americas

    New Directions in Translation Theory

    de Edwin Gentzler ...
    Translation is a highly contested site in the Americas where different groups, often with competing literary or political interests, vie for space and approval. In its survey of these multiple and competing groups and its study of the geographic, socio-political and cultural aspects of translation, Edwin Gentzler’s book demonstrates that the Americas are a fruitful terrain for the field of ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Between Distant Modernities

    Performing Exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South

    de Brittany Powell Kennedy ...
    For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within U.S. and European nationalisms. During Franco's regime and the Jim Crow era both violently asserted a haunting brand of national "selfhood." Both areas shared a loss of splendor and a fraught relation with modernization, and they retained a sense of defeat. Brittany Powell Kennedy explores this paradox not simply ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Performing the Body/Performing the Text

    Edición de Amelia Jones, Andrew Stephenson Nfa, Andrew Stephenson ...
    This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to minimalism - have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery; by embracing theatricality and performance and exploding the boundaries set by traditional art criticism. The contributors argue ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD