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Finisterre II: Revisiting the Last Place on Earth

Finisterre II: Revisiting the Last Place on Earth. Migrations in Spanish and Latin American Culture and Literature is a collective aesthetic, historical, literary, and cultural analysis of how biopolitica…

Carol Cleaveland, Michele Waslin

Private Violence

"Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum engages women's stories to examine how gender-based violence compels asylum claims. Using women's narratives and ethnographic observatio…

Timothy Halstead

More Than Victims of Horace

Public schoolboys in the Great War were part of a nation in arms. This book explains how their involvement was far more than romantic idealism.

José Iriarte

The Archaeology of Amazonia

"This open access book looks at the archaeology of Amazonia. Reaching back to the earliest colonization of the Amazon basin during the last Ice Age, this book demonstrates how its current diversity of lan…

Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (Loa #382)

This landmark Latinx poetry collection offers "a wondrous journey through the passions, the ideas, and the diversity of a people redefining what it means to be American" (Héctor Tobar, Pulitzer Prize winn…

Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction

This volume explores how Latin American and Latinx creators have engaged science fiction to explore posthumanist thought. Contributors reflect on how Latin American and Latinx speculative art conceptualiz…

José Daniel Fernández Dugarte

For Now and Forever!

For Now and Forever! deals with the two military coup d'état attempts in Venezuela of 1992, providing the background to both the socio-economic situation of the country and the state of affairs inside of …

Leo Babel

Learning Spanish for adults made easy... in 2 weeks!

Have you always been willing to learn Spanish as quickly as possible? Do you want to be able to communicate with Spaniards and Latinos in as short as 2 weeks? Don't you wish to join the over 500 million S…

Rachel Randall

Paid to Care: Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture

An insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration with them or inspired by their e…

Jaclyn Sumner

Indigenous Autocracy: Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico

"When General Porfirio Dâiaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of political stability and national economic growth - though "progress" came at the cost of democracy. Ind…

Waïl S Hassan

Arab Brazil

Until recently, Arab-Brazilian relations have been largely invisible to area studies and Comparative Literature scholarship. Yet Arabs have left a permanent imprint on Brazil: from the legacy of Muslim Ib…

Jaclyn Sumner

Indigenous Autocracy: Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico

"When General Porfirio Dâiaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of political stability and national economic growth - though "progress" came at the cost of democracy. Ind…

Mariana Ruiz Johnson

The Hummingbird Sings and Dances

An extraordinary collection of 19 traditional Latin American nursery rhymes and lullabies in Spanish that have withstood the test of time. A map of Latin America and complete lyrics in Spanish with Englis…

Latin American Cultural and Musical Contexts in Music Therapy

Essential reading for all music therapists, this detailed primer explores the rich array of languages, religions, histories, and influences that make up Latin American musical culture, and how they can be…

Michael Riekenberg

Der Bürgerkrieg in Lateinamerika

Lateinamerika ist eine besonders interessante Region, um die Geschichte des Bürgerkriegs wie auch dessen Theorie zu betrachten, die nach wie vor wenig entwickelt ist. Denn hier spielten sich in der neuere…

Latin American Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Bioethics and Disabilities

This book provides a critical analysis of the experiences of people with disabilities in Latin America. It covers a wide range of topics related to intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. Written by L…

Minutemen

Double Nickels On The Dime

Juan Villoro,

Horizontal Vertigo

"Horizontal Vertigo: the title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes, which led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flan…

Latin American Social Work in the Justice System

Social work has long been working directly with the criminal and civil courts of the justice system. The work of Latin American practitioners in the legal system, however, is little known at global and lo…