Books

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.

Examines the canonical Latin American avant-garde texts of the 1920s and 1930s, with particular focus on Roberto Arlt and Mario de Andrade. The movement developed on its own terms, in polemic dialogue with European movements, critiquing modernity itself, and developed a geopolitical awareness that bridged postcolonial and postmodern culture and continues its influence today.

Part field diary, part art critique, and part cultural anthropology— the book offers a glimpse of an aesthetic “other” (the Ishir [Chamacoco] of Parguay), causing us to reexamine Western perspectives on the interpretation of art, religion, and Native American culture.