Magical Realism, Latin American Theology, and the Appearance of a Pre-Critical Theory: Mary versus Ideology explores why the greatest boom of Marian apparitions in history, related by poor rural women and children, occurred simultaneously with the rise of urban elites' secularizing ideologies-and often in the same countries. The uniqueness of this ......
Non-Normative Sexualities in US Latinx and Latin American Literature Through a Capitalist Lens studies how Latin American and Latinx authors represent non-normative sexualities through a capitalist lens. In our society, heterosexuality manifests as privilege and has been normalized to such an extent that any sexuality that is perceived as ......
Hemispheric Transculturations, Hallucinogens, Politics, Aesthetics, and
Unlike their European predecessors in the experimentation with hallucinogens and aesthetics, many Latin American and North American authors turned to hallucinatory practices and substances as elements of their own hemispheric heritage. The twentieth-century narratives analyzed in Visionary Art of the Americas: Hemispheric Transculturations, ......
Female Ghosts in Contemporary US and Caribbean Fiction
Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives: Female Ghosts in Contemporary US and Caribbean Fiction examines four novels by Erna Brodber, Zoe Valdes, Sandra Cisneros, and Maryse Conde. In this unique comparative analysis, Kristina S. Gibby explores the significance of female ghosts-specifically maternal figures, who haunt female narrators, inspiring them ......
Characters are made, scripted, and invented, but Creators and Created Beings in Twentieth Century Latin American Fiction explores what occurs when literary creations become creators themselves. Representing Latin American fiction's increasingly skeptical gaze in the early- to mid- twentieth century, these literary creators breach the metafictional ......
A sweeping yet intimate exploration of Latin America's political history, Forging Latin America profiles fifty-two of the region's most influential figures-from dictators and reformers to artists and priests-who, for better or worse, have shaped its character and destiny from the Spanish Conquest to the present day.
The Making of a Generation Defining Anthology in the Latin American Lite
The first book-length analysis of the controversial Pan-Hispanic short story anthology "McOndo" (1996) draws on World Literature scholarship to take a step toward reclaiming the anthologys artistic intentions and considering its generation-defining legacy in Latin American literary history.
A sweeping yet intimate exploration of Latin America's political history, Forging Latin America profiles fifty-two of the region's most influential figures-from dictators and reformers to artists and priests-who, for better or worse, have shaped its character and destiny from the Spanish Conquest to the present day.
Providing an account of how to discuss interactions between objects found within and across archives work in theoretically and experientially meaningful ways, this book illustrates how Gloria Anzaldua's archives contain objects that, when placed together by the rhetor, perform the embodied ways of knowing of which she writes.
