Traces of the Unseen situates photography's role in documenting the destruction wrought by infrastructure development and extractive capitalist expansion in the Amazon and outside the Brazilian metropole at the turn of the twentieth century.
Strategic Occidentalism analyzes the work of Mexican writers such as Sergio Pitol, Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla, Carmen Boullosa, and Ana García Bergua to explore the ways in which the aesthetics and infrastructure of Mexican fiction have been transformed since the late 1970s.
Acoustic Properties by Tom McEnaney traces the development of wireless culture, offering a fresh and insightful analysis of the interplay between the development of radio, the novel, and populist political movements across North and South America.
is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atlantic literature and art produced between 1868 and 1968. Rachel Price uncovers the surprising ways that concrete aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil, and Spain drew not only on global forms of constructivism but also on a history of empire, slavery, and media technologies from the Atlantic world.
Mariano Siskind’s groundbreaking debut book redefines the scope of world literature, particularly regarding the place of Latin America in its imaginaries and mappings. In Siskind’s formulation,...
The Northeast San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles is the second largest community of Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States with 500,000 people. Yet, until 2001 the Northeast Valley had no trade bookstores, movie houses, art galleries, or decent cultural spaces. That year Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural opened its doors, first as a cultural café, which in ten years has provided workshops in music, visual arts, dance, theater, writing, and indigenous cosmology—along with an art gallery, a poetry press, a youth empowerment project, and the only annual outdoor literacy and performance festival in the area, “Celebrating Words: Written, Performed & Sung.”
