Category: Faculty Bookshelf

Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain

Link to Book Author Name: Rajiv Rao Publisher: John Benjamins Publication Year: 2020 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain brings together scholars working on a wide range of aspects of the Spanish sound system and how their coexistence with another language in speech communities across the Hispanophone world influences …

Environmental Cultural Studies Through Time: The Luso-Hispanic World

Link to Book Author Name: Kata Beilin Kathleen Connolly Micah McKay Publisher: Hispanic Issues Online Publication Year: 2019 Environmental Cultural Studies is a transdisciplinary field that examines relationships between power structures and every day practices of adaptation and resistance, where power fluxes are conducted not only by humans but also non-human forms of life and …

Key Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation: From Description to Pedagogy, 1st Edition

Link to Book Author Name: Rajiv Rao Publisher: Routledge Publication Year: 2019 A resource that encourages Spanish teachers and curriculum designers to increase their incorporation of pronunciation into the classroom. Combining theory and practical guidance, it will help language practitioners integrate the teaching of Spanish pronunciation with confidence and effectiveness. The international group of scholars …

Female Corpses in Crime Fiction: A Transatlantic Perspective

Link to Book Author Name: Glen Close Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publication Year: 2018 This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational detective fictions of the nineteenth century, it draws from diverse subgenres to describe a transatlantic tradition of necropornography characterized …

Biodrama/Proyecto Archivos: Seis documentales escénicos de Vivi Tellas

Link to Book Author Names: Paola Hernández Pamela Brownell Publisher: Papeles Teatrales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Publication Year: 2018 El presente libro dirige la mirada hacia el concepto de Biodrama, que surgió como el nombre de un interés por explorar (y valorizar) la vida de las personas desde el teatro, y se consolidó como un …

Poner el cuerpo: Rescatar y visibilidad las marcas sexuales y de género de los archivos dictatoriales del Cono Sur

Author Names: Ksenija Bilbija Bernardita Llanos Ana Forcinito Publisher: Editorial Cuarto Propio (Chile) Publication Year: 2017 Desde una perspectiva multidisciplinaria este libro reconoce la violencia de género en el marco del terrorismo de Estado en Argentina (1976-1983), Uruguay (1973-1985), Chile (1973-1990) y Paraguay (1954-1989). Las colaboradoras plantean una revisión del pasado y del activismo realizado …

Cuando lo nuevo conquistó América. Prensa, moda y literatura en el siglo XIX.

Author Name: Victor Goldgel Publisher: Fondo Editorial Casa de las Américas Publication Year: 2017 Winner of the Premio Iberoamericano (Latin American Studies Association) Winner of the Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Award (Casa de las Américas) This book analyzes the impact that periodicals (understood as new media) and fashion (defined as a pattern of cyclical renovation) had …

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 …