Browse by Subject: Latin American Studies

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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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The Cuban Revolution and the New Left: Transnational Histories of Gender, Sexuality, and Family

This volume offers new insights into revolutionary Cuba’s global influence by shifting the focus from high-level political leaders to overlooked dimensions such as everyday lives, family dynamics, and notions of gender and sexuality.

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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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Fathers, Masculinity, and Authoritarianism in Latin American Cinema

Through an analysis of twenty-first-century films created in Latin America, this book makes the case that contemporary filmmakers are using the figure of the father as a metaphor for political leadership and that their work reflects a growing rejection of predatory and coercive authority in the region.

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Modern Art in 1940s Cuba: Havana's Artists, Critics, and Exhibitions

Exploring the work of avant-garde artists in Cuba from 1940 to 1952, this book provides the first comprehensive history of modern Cuban art during the nation’s only democratic 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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Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns

This book explores how northeastern Cuba became a hub of international solidarity and transnational movements in the 1920s and 1930s, showing how the Oriente Province emerged as a focal point for global visions of resistance.

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Sex and Love in Porfirian Mexico City: A Social History of Working-Class Courtship

This social history explores the romantic and sexual lives of the poor and working class in Mexico City during the rule of dictator Porfirio Díaz, showing how everyday experiences were shaped by broader changes taking place as the Mexican state modernized and underwent capitalist growth and development.