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William Garrett Acree
Everyday Reading

Winner of the LASA Southern Cone Studies Section Book Prize in the Humanities, 2013Starting in the late nineteenth century, the region of South America known as the Rio de la Plata (containing modern-day …

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Bruce R. Burningham
Tilting Cervantes

Tilting Cervantes examines several contemporary texts -- Fight Club, Brazil, The Matrix, and The Moor's Last Sigh, among others -- by reflecting them against a cluster of early modern Spanish and Latin Am…

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Juan E. De Castro
Writing Revolution in Latin America

PROSE Awards Literature Subject Category Winner, 2020In the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the vio…

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Deborah Cohn
History and Memory in the Two Souths

It is commonplace among literary critics to refer to William Faulkner's influence on Spanish American literature. Yet few studies have delved seriously into why the attraction of the writings of this sout…

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Vincent Colapietro
Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom

John William Miller's radical revision of the idealistic tradition anticipated some of the most important developments in contemporary thought, developments often associated with thinkers like Heidegger, …

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Robert E. Cummings
Lazy Virtues

Winner of the MLA's Mina P. Shaugnessy Prize for an outstanding work in the fields of language, culture, literacy, or literature with strong application to the teaching of English.Focusing largely on the …

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Maarten Van Delden, Yvon Grenier
Gunshots at the Fiesta

The product of a unique collaboration between a literary critic (Van Delden) and a political scientist (Grenier), this book looks at the relationship between literature and politics in Latin America, a re…

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Nancy Neveloff Dubler, Carol B. Liebman
Bioethics Mediation

Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed in conflict as they wrestle with decisions about life and death. It provides guidance for those charged with…

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William E. Duff
A Time for Spies

In this enlightening new book, former FBI Special Agent William E. Duff offers a gripping portrait of Theodore Stephanovich Mally and the historical and psychological factors that influenced and motivated…

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Sebastiaan Faber
Exhuming Franco: Spain's Second Transition, Second Edition

Through dozens of interviews, intensive reporting, and deep research and analysis, Sebastiaan Faber sets out to understand what remains of Francisco Franco's legacy in Spain today. Faber's work is grounde…

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Mary Gail Frawley-odea
Perversion of Power

Since 2002, the Roman Catholic Church has been in crisis over the sexual abuse of minors by priests and the cover-up of those crimes by bishops. Over 11,000 alleged victims have reported their experiences…

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Maurice Halperin
Return to Havana

An insightful personal memoir that contrasts firsthand the dream of the Cuban Revolution as it was in the early 1960s with the deprivations, hardships, and loss of hope that haunt Cuban society today.

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Joy Jordan-Lake
Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin

Joy Jordan-Lake examines the ways in which antebellum women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stoweís enormously popular Uncle Tom's Cabin by preaching a ìtheology of whitenessî from within the p…

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Marilyn Adler Papayanis
Writing in the Margins

Looking closely at a group of writers who rejected the industrial West in favor of the expatriate life and made that quest the subject of their work, Marilynn Papayanis reveals their concerns to be ethica…

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Kelly A. Parker
The Continuity of Peirce's Thought

A comprehensive and systematic reconstruction of the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce, perhaps America's most far-ranging and original philosopher, which reveals the unity of his complex and influential bo…

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Guy Rotella
Castings

Whether looming over public squares or dotting old battlefields, monuments certify a culture's present by securing its past and pledging its future. They embody exemplary persons or events and the shared …

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David S. Simmons
Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe

As subSaharan Africa continues to confront the runaway epidemic of HIV/AIDS, traditional healers have been tapped as collaborators in prevention and education efforts. The terms of this collaboration, how…

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Sherry Velasco
Male Delivery

Using the one-act comedy El parto de Juan Rana (John Frog Gives Birth) as a point of departure, Velasco argues that the figure of the pregnant man in early modern Spanish culture was not merely comic ente…

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Dana Cairns Watson
Gertrude Stein and the Essence of What Happens

In this provocative study, Dana Cairns Watson traces Gertrude Stein's growing fascination with the cognitive and political ramifications of conversation and how that interest influenced her writing over t…

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Esther Isabelle Wilder
Wheeling and Dealing

Before his motorcycle accident, Travis saw himself becoming a pro football player. Now, paralyzed from the nipple down, he says, "At times it's a pain in the ass-literally and figuratively. But it al…

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