Category: Faculty Bookshelf

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 …

Perros habitados por las voces del desierto. Poesía Infrarrealista de dos siglos

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 …

Dark Laughter: Spanish Film, Comedy and the Nation.

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. …