University of Wisconsin–Madison

Year: 2019

Polemical Companion to Ethics of Life. Hispanic Issues Online. Vol 7.

Link to Book Author Name: Kata Beilin William Viestenz Publisher: College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Publication Year: 2016 The Polemical Companion to Ethics of Life contains a series of exchanges between leading scholars in Iberian Studies about how Hispanism may respond to the crisis of humanities, by developing new forms of inquiry in …

Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates (Hispanic Issues)

Link to Book Author Name: Kata Beilin Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press Publication Year: 2016 This volume’s essays by cutting-edge Iberian studies scholars, and with several interdisciplinary collaborations, focus on environment, animality, bioeconomy and bioethics. They map discourses of accountability for life manipulation and life loss, including debates on euthanasia, abortion, bullfighting, war memory, oil spills, …

Consejos de 1 discípulo de Marx a 1 fanático de Heidegger [Edición crítica]

Link to Book Author Name: Rubén Medina Publisher: Matadero Publication Year: 2016 A mediados de 2016, la editorial mexicana Nautilium/Matadero vuelve a publicar Consejos de 1 discípulo de Marx a 1 fanático de Heidegger esta vez en una edición crítica bajo la dirección de Rubén Medina, poeta infrarrealista y profesor de la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison …

In Search of Alternative Biopolitics: Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain

Author Name: Kata Beilin Publisher: Ohio State University Press Publication Year: 2015 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Beilin takes readers on a journey through currents of alternative thought in Spanish culture, weaving through writings, films and life stories whose authors and protagonists are acutely aware that “the question of the non-human,” in particular in the …

Peter Boyd Bowman’s “Léxico hispanoamericano” 1493-1993

Link to Book Author Names: Ray Harris-Northall John J. Nitti Publisher: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, online at UW-Madison Publication Year: 2015 The Léxico hispanoamericano, documenting the use of Spanish in the Americas over five centuries, contains over 80,000 headwords from 387 literary, historical and documentary sources from 1493-1993. It is an incomparable source of …

Apertura: Photography in Cuba Today.

Link to Book Author Name: Guillermina De Ferrari Publisher: Chazen Museum of Art Publication Year: 2015 Apertura explores the way photography is understood and experienced in Cuba in times of transition. It includes photography-based installations, digital photomontage and “intervened photography” by eight contemporary Cuban artists. The exhibition explores how photography creates meaning in light of …

Nomadic Nation / Nación Nómada

Author Name: Rubén Medina Publisher: Cowfeather Press and El quirófano Ediciones Publication Year: 2015 Composed in English, Spanish, and Spanglish, these important poems reflect on the lives of immigrants/ emigrants, our restless spirits, and the human journey. “I called my poetics, una poética norteada, alien, nomadic. This term, norteada/o, describes a person who is lost …

Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts

Link to Book Author Names: Severino J. Albuquerque Kathryn Sanchez Publisher: Madison: University of Wisconsin Press Publication Year: 2015 A field-shaping anthology by top cultural critics and practitioners representing a wide range of disciplines and art forms. This is the first book to bring together studies of the many and varied manifestations of Brazilian performance …

Reymundo de Grecia

Link to Book Author Name: Ivy A. Corfis Publisher: Parnaseo Publication Year: 2014 This is the first edition of the Reymundo de Grecia romance since its original publication in 1524. The open-access digital edition makes new, unique material available for study of the Hispanic chivalric romances and for understanding the relationship of Reymundo to the …

Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba

Link to Book Author Name: Guillermina De Ferrari Publisher: Routledge Publication Year: 2014 This book analyzes in literature and art the conflation of ethics, gender and politics that defined the Cuban Revolution, a strategy that helps explain its longevity. It examines the sociology of cultural administration of intellectual labor in Cuba; and it maps the …