Bøger i Latinx and Latin American Profiles serien

Aims to unravel how Castillo's writing impacts people of color around the globe.

This collection of essays, by fifteen scholars across diverse fields, explores forty years of writing by Giannina Braschi, one of the most revolutionary Latinx authors of her generation.

The first comprehensive presentation of photography on Sao Paulo.

Situates Theater and Performance in Debates on Dominican History and Culture and the Impact of Migration

Performance Art as a Source of Historical Truth in Mexico

How literature challenges the historical methodologies that have silenced the American experience of Puerto Rican women.

A new reading of U.S. Latinx literature in translation.

A Study of the Work of Ilan Stavans

Presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat. Beginning with her literary celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into the Poetry Society of America, it traces her relative obscurity after 1952 when she married and took on family and employment responsibilities, to her triumphant return to the spotlight decades later.

The Brazilian television industry is one of the most productive and commercially successful in the world. Eli Lee Carter examines the field of television production by focusing on the work of one of Brazil's greatest living directors, Luiz Fernando Carvalho. Through an emphasis on Carvalho's thirty-plus year career, Carter sheds light on Brazilian television's history, its current state, and its future.

Children's and young adult literature has become an essential medium for identity formation in contemporary Latino/a culture in the United States.

This volume reassesses the field of Chicana/o literary studies in light of the rise of Latina/o studies, the recovery of a large body of early literature by Mexican Americans, and the "transnational turn" in American studies.

This study offers a critical examination of the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Mexican-American brothers whose graphic novels are highly influential.

The production of each artist is examined as an ideological interpretation of how Chicano experience is constructed and interpreted through the medium of photography, in sites ranging from the traditional barrio to large metropolitan societies.

In Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century, Tace Hedrick illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and commodification shape the genre of "chica lit," popular fiction written by Latina authors with Latina characters.