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An analysis of how a decade of military rule in Venezuela produced a dominant ideology of progress so meticulously crafted that to this day audacious Modernist art and architecture and dictatorship are conflated under the term "modernity."

A masterpiece . . .Trouble in Mindstill contains astonishing power; it could have been written yesterday. VultureAhead of its time,Trouble in Mind, written in 1955, follows the rehearsal process of an anti-lynching play preparing for its Broadway debut. When Wiletta, a Black actress and veteran of the stage, challenges the plays stereotypical portrayal of the Black characters, unsettling biases come to the forefront and reveal the ways so-called progressive art can be used to uphold racist attitudes. Scheduled to open on Broadway in 1957, Childress objected to the requested changes in the script that would sanitize the play for mainstream audiences, and the production was canceled as a result. Childresss final script is published here with an essay by playwrightBranden Jacobs-Jenkins, editor of TCG Illuminations.

"A contextualization, reception history, and exegesis of the biblical book of Jonah."--

Provides a study of the development of Latin American literary journalism and the emergence of an original Latin American literature. Calvi connects the evolution of literary journalism with the consolidation of Latin America's literary sphere, the professional practice of journalism, modern mass media, and the establishment of nation-states.

Provides a comprehensive ethnography of writing in the Andes, and details the relationship between Andean peoples' struggle to preserve their indigenous textual forms in the face of Western cirricula, with their struggle for land and power.

Provides an original perspective on Faulkner, examining his work in the transnational context of the ""Global South"". This work raises new questions as to the scope and attitude of Faulkner's project, positioning Faulkner's work as an inherent critique of colonialism and emphasizing a more specific conceptualization of coloniality.

Spanish King of the Incas tells the fascinating story of a Spanish commoner who participated in the conquest of Latin America, then changed loyalties. He declared himself a king among the Calchaqui Indians and was eventually executed for his role in an Inca rebellion in 1667.

Racialization and the Production of Space in Relation to Urban Development and the National Imaginary

Latin American Journalists Who Endure Grave Danger to Witness and Report Their Truth

New and Collected Essays on the Idea of Latin America by John Beverley

Challenges to the Current Cultural Histories of the Neoliberal Period in Mexico and Brazil

A study of the intermittences of the processes of transitional justice and memory in post-dictatorship Uruguay.

The interrelations between capitalism and political violence in late 20th century Argentina.

An Ethnography of the Underground Print Book in Latin America

An Analysis of Activist Videos from Southern Mexico

Modernity at Gunpoint provides the first study of the political and cultural significance of weaponry in the context of major armed conflicts in Mexico and Central America.

The first full-length study to treat both parts of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's foundational text Royal Commentaries of the Incas as a seminal work of political thought in the formation of the early Americas and the early-modern period.

From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept by a wave of modernization, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society to an unquestionably urban one. By examining a wide range of cultural texts, Concrete and Countryside offers an in-depth analysis of how Puerto Ricans responded to this transformative period.

Studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. This book departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity's powerful secularizing influence.

Coronado examines photography to further the argument that intellectuals grafted their own notions of indigeneity onto their subjects.

Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work.

The Matter of Empire examines the philosophical principles invoked by apologists of the Spanish empire that laid the foundations for the material exploitation of the Andean region between 1520 and 1640.

Dabove presents the reader not with a definition of the bandit, but with a series of case studies showing how the bandit trope was used in fictional and non-fictional narratives by writers and political leaders, from the Mexican Revolution to the present.

This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes.

Anti-Literature articulates a rethinking of what is meant today by "literature." Examining key Latin American forms of experimental writing from the 1920s to the present, Shellhorse reveals literature's power as a site for radical reflection and reaction to contemporary political and cultural conditions.

Narrating Narcos presents a probing examination of the prominent role of narcotics trafficking in contemporary Latin American cultural production.

An intellectual tour de force from one of today's leading critics of Latin American literature and culture, The Corpus Delicti [The Body of Crime] is a manual of crime, a compendium of crime tales, and an extended meditation on the role of crime in life.

Rosenberg explores Latin American artistic production concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of the human rights narrative around the turn of the last century.

Part field diary, part art critique, and part cultural anthropology- the book offers a glimpse of an aesthetic "other" (the Ishir [Chamacoco] of Parguay), causing us to reexamine Western perspectives on the interpretation of art, religion, and Native American culture.

In the late nineteenth century, the Brazilian army staged several campaigns against the settlement of Canudos in northeastern Brazil.