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A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer; a suicidalrobot; a romantic necrophiliac; and an archaeologist who feeds the perverse desires of aficionados of the apocalypseFrancisco Garca Gonzalezs stories map out literary and metafictional approaches to the sci-fi universe in ways that echo the humor and violence of Miguel de Cervantes,Mara de Zayas, Jorge Luis Borges, Rosa Montero, and Roberto Bolao. With ascholarly introduction by translator Bradley J. Nelson thatintroduces Garca Gonzlezs oeuvre to contemporary readers and scholars of Spanish-language literature, this science fiction collectionintroduces Anglophones to this unique author. Garca Gonzlezturns a black mirroron contemporary society and its relation both to history and to the future. His insightfulness and relevance draw comparisons with Margaret Atwood, Neal Stephenson, and China Mieville, though his verbal economy and elegance are more akin to Cormac McCarthy, producing both disturbingly uncanny violence and unexpected comedy.

Recounts the history of Nashville's black communities through the story of its hot chicken scene from the Civil War, when Nashville became a segregated city, through the tornado that ripped through North Nashville in March 2020.

In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages with early modern notions of wonder in religious, artistic, and social contexts.

Argues that Marti's religious views, which at first glance might appear outdated and irrelevant, are actually critical to understanding his social vision. Miguel De La Torre has authored the most comprehensive text written thus far concerning Marti's religious views and how they impacted his political thought.

Through an ethnographic and systematic comparison of four gold mining conflicts in Peru, Resisting Extractivism presents a vivid account of subtle and routine forms of violence, analysing how meaning making practices render certain types of damage and suffering noticeable while occluding others.

Before there were guidebooks there were just guides--people in the community you could count on to show you around. I'll Take You There is written by and with the people who most intimately know Nashville, foregrounding the struggles and achievements of people's movements towards social justice.

Looks at a wide range of topics of interest in Octavio Paz's career, including his engagement with the subversive, adversary strain in Western culture, his meditations on questions of cultural identity and intercultural contact, his dialogue with both leftist and conservative ideological traditions, and his interest in feminism and psychoanalysis.

Features four extensive bodies of the photographer's work, spanning from the early 2000s to today - photographs of the Yugoslav socialist modernist hotel spaces from her series ""Hotels""; photographs of the ceremonial space of the Yugoslav Presidential Palace in Belgrade, and the recent ""Fabrics of Socialism"" and ""Sites of Memory"" series.

Argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Spain was part of a larger project to suppress the growing female emancipation movement by sexualizing the female subject.

What is left of Francisco Francos legacy in Spain today? Franco ruled Spain as a military dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975. In October 2019, his remains were removed from the massive national monument in which they had been buried for forty-four years. For some, the exhumation confirmed that Spain has long been a modern, consolidated democracy. The reality is more complicated. In fact, the country is still deeply affectedand dividedby the dictatorial legacies of Francoism. In one short volume, Exhuming Franco covers all major facets of the Francoist legacy today, combining research and analysis with reportage and interviews. This book is critical of Spanish democracy; yet, as the final chapter makes clear, Spain is one of many countries facing difficult questions about a conflictive past. To make things worse, the rise of a new, right-wing nationalist revisionism across the West threatens to undo much of the progress made in the past couple of decades when it comes to issues of historical justice.

Using El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (the ""Guide for Blind Rovers"" by Alonso Carrio de Lavandera, the best known work of the era) as a jumping off point for a sprawling discussion of 18th-century Spanish America, Ruth Hill argues for a richer, more nuanced understanding of the relationship between Spain and its western colonies.

Interweaves an autobiographical narrative with concrete research. John Mraz describes the resistance he encountered in US academia to this new way of showing and describing the past, as well as some illuminating experiences as a visiting professor at several US universities.

At the border where Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina meet under the scrutiny of the US and Mercosur (the large South American trade bloc), Arabs have long been agents of what author John Tofik Karam calls a "manifold destiny". In this, Karam casts Arab communities in Latin America as circumstantial protagonists of a hemispheric saga.

Gathers diverse voices to address women's interaction with STEM fields in the context of Spanish cultural production. This volume focuses on the many ways the arts and humanities provide avenues for deepening the conversation about how women have been involved in, excluded from, and represented within the scientific realm.

Gathers diverse voices to address women's interaction with STEM fields in the context of Spanish cultural production. This volume focuses on the many ways the arts and humanities provide avenues for deepening the conversation about how women have been involved in, excluded from, and represented within the scientific realm.

Expands the traditional purview of speculative fiction in all its incarnations beyond the traditional Anglo-American context to focus on work produced in Mexico and Brazil. The book portrays the effects of modernity in these two nations, addressing its technological, cultural, and social consequences and their implications for the human body.

On July 1, 2003, work-hour reforms were enacted nationally for the roughly 129,000 resident physicians in the United States. Why Surgeons Struggle with Work-Hour Reforms focuses on general surgeons, a historically long-hour specialty, who fiercely opposed the reforms and are among the least compliant.

More than 10,000 known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee. Besides describing the sheer physical majesty of the region's wild caverns and the concurrent joys and dangers of exploring them, this book examines their natural history, scientific import, relationship to clean water and a healthy surface environment, and their uncertain future.

Between 1998 and 2018, the population of Nashville grew by 150,000. On some level, Nashville has always packaged itself for consumption, but something clicked and suddenly everyone wanted a taste. But why Nashville? This book is an attempt to understand those changes, or, if not to understand them, then to grapple with the question: What happened?

A biography of a merchant, printer, bookseller and publisher who lived in Rio de Janeiro from his birth in 1809 until his death in 1861. Although it covers five generations of Paula Brito's family - men and women who left slavery in the eighteenth century - this book focuses on its protagonist's activities between the 1830s and 1850s.

First published in 1974, Architecture of Middle Tennessee quickly became a record of some of the regions most important and most endangered buildings. Based primarily upon photographs, measured drawings, and historical and architectural information assembled by the Historic American Buildings Survey of the National Park Service in 1970 and 1971, the book was conceived of as a record of buildings preservationists assumed would soon be lost. Remarkably, though, nearly half a century later, most of the buildings featured in the book are still standing. Vanderbilt staffers discovered a treasure trove of photos and diagrams from the HABS survey that did not make the original edition in the Press archives. This new, expanded edition contains all the original text and images from the first volume, plus many of the forgotten archived materials collected by HABS in the 1970s. In her new introduction to this reissue, Aja Bain discusses why these buildings were saved and wonders about what lessons preservationists can learn now about how to preserve a wider swath of our shared history.

The Frist Art Museum and Vanderbilt University Press have partnered to copublish Murals of North Nashville Now. The publication includes plates of the eight murals in the exhibition of the same name, along with images of public mural installations in North Nashville.

These fourteen essays showcase the eye-opening potential of a food lens within colonial studies, ethnic and racial studies, gender and sexuality studies, and studies of power dynamics, nationalisms and nation building, theories of embodiment, and identity.