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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Author Name: Rubén Medina Publisher: Fondo Editorial Cultura Peruana y Editorial ALDVS Publication Year: 2014 Antología que reúne textos de 19 escritores pertenecientes al movimiento poético Infrarrealista fundado en 1975 en la Ciudad de México, por un grupo de poetas jóvenes. El libro da a conocer el trabajo de poetas como José Rosas Ribeyro, Mario …
Link to Book Author Name: Juan F. Egea Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Publication Year: 2013 Dark Laughter provides an in-depth analysis of the dark comedy film genre in Spain, as well as a provocative critical engagement with the idea of national cinema, the visual dimension of cultural specificity, and the ethics of dark humor. …
Link to Book Author Name: Victor Goldgel Publisher: Siglo XXI Publication Year: 2013 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 upon …