Browse by Subject: Literature

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Imagining a New Natural History: Latin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene

Offering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions, this volume shows how writers, artists, and curators are rethinking approaches to the discipline that cast humans and nature as separate entities.

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Contesting the Climate Unthinkable: Latin American Cultural Responses to a Warming World

This volume explores Latin American cultural works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that reflect environmental changes, showcasing how artists, writers, and activists depict the scale and impact of ecological crises.

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Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production

Exploring the relationships between plants, animals, and humans across various countries and historical periods and through a wide range of cultural production, this collection challenges anthropocentric perspectives and offers a deeper understanding of Latin America’s natural environment.

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Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture

This book examines the evolution of queer Dominican literary and cultural production from the 1950s to the present, tracing how same-sex desire and gender nonconformity have been negotiated both tacitly and overtly across this time period.

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The Environment in Brazilian Culture: Literature, Cinema, and the Arts

This volume explores the centrality of the natural world in shaping Brazilian literature, cinema, and art from 1900 to the present, portraying the human connection to nature in the most biodiverse country in the world.

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Periodicals in Latin America: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Serialized Print Culture

Assembling research on a diverse range of serialized publications from the late nineteenth century to the present day, this volume explores how Latin American print culture has influenced local movements and informed global exchange.

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Tears and Flowers: A Poet of Migration in Old Key West

A rare glimpse into the history and literary culture of the Cuban community in Key West in the early twentieth century, this book makes the poetry of Feliciano Castro—a writer, printer, editor, and cigar factory lector—available in English for the first time.

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Technified Muses: Reconfiguring National Bodies in the Mexican Avant-Garde

In this volume, Sara Potter uses the idea of the muse from Greek mythology and the cyborg from posthuman theory to consider the portrayal of female characters and their bodies in Mexican art and literature from the 1920s to the present, examining genres including science fiction, cyberpunk, and popular fiction.

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Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean

Exploring works of science fiction originating from Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, this book shows how writers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists are using the language of the genre to comment on the region’s history and present-day realities.

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Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking

Examining how Cuban writers and artists have depicted racial, gender, and species differences throughout the past century, this book discusses how their works have emphasized the shared materiality of bodies across diverse media, time periods, and ideologies.