Books

An Examination of Venezuelan Culture Conceptualized through Urban Renewal

The First Thorough Examination of the Enduring Significance of Plants in Spanish American Literature and Culture

A Study of the Twenty-First-Century Latin American Novel in an Era of Apocalyptic Catastrophe

Captures the Complexity of Foucault’s Political Engagements and Breaks with the Orthodox View That He Was Anti-Marxist

Highlights the Transformative Effects of Border Conflicts on Culture and Politics

An Original Intervention into Theorizations of Buenos Aires’s Urban History

Reveals a New Story of Unexpected Sympathies, Solidarities, and Care in the Guantánamo Borderlands

Charts the Rise of the Barrios in the Venezuelan Imagination

A Nuanced Study of the Complex Social Imaginary and Hegemony of Violence in Colombia

A Methodological Study of Going to the Movies as Cultural and Societal Practice

Presents a New Way of Understanding Modernization, Exclusion, and Nationalist Discourse through the Voices of Gender and Sexual Dissident Writers

Exploring Colonialism in University Spanish and Hispanic Studies Departments

How Contemporary Art, Literature, Film, and Television Create an Imagined Version of Latin America in the United States

Rockin’ Las Americas is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout Latin America. Contributors include experts in music, history, literature, sociology, and anthropology, as well as practicing rockeros.

An intellectual tour de force from one of today’s leading critics of Latin American literature and culture, The Corpus Delicti [The Body of Crime] is a manual of crime, a compendium of crime tales, and an extended meditation on the role of crime in life.