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Cannibalizing Queer

Brazilian Cinema from 1970 to 2015

João Nemi Neto

Puts forward a new, provocative history of queer cinema in Brazil.

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Published: February 2022
ISBN: 9780814346099
$94.99
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Published: February 2022
ISBN: 9780814346105
$42.99
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Published: February 2022
ISBN: 9780814346112

Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World

Edited by Vania Barraza and Carl Fischer

Explores the global dimension and local identity of Chile’s vibrant contemporary cinema.

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Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814346815
$84.99
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Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814346822
$32.99
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Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814346839
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Kugel and Frijoles

Latino Jews in the United States

Laura Limonic

Exploration of ethnic identity and community building through stories of contemporary Latino Jews.

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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814345757
$82.99
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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814345764
$34.99
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Published: April 2019
ISBN: 9780814345771

Humor in Borges

René de Costa

Humor in Borges studies the humor embedded in the fiction of the serious and metaphysical literary figure, Jorge Luis Borges.

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Published: April 2000
ISBN: 9780814328880
$32.99

Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Edited by Stephanie Merrim

Called the "Quintessence of the Baroque" and "Bridge to the Enlightenment," Mexican writer and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz has also been celebrated as the "First Feminist of the New World." Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz fills a gap

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Published: September 1999
ISBN: 9780814322161
$24.99

New Latin American Cinema, Volume 2

Studies of National Cinemas

Edited by Michael T. Martin

This volume comprises essays on the development of the New Latin American Cinema as a comparative national project.

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Published: June 1997
ISBN: 9780814325865
$29.99
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Published: June 1997
ISBN: 9780814327067
$54.95

New Latin American Cinema, Volume 1

Theories, Practices, and Transcontinental Articulations

Edited by Michael T. Martin

Volume One explores the formation of the New Latin American Cinema movement, its national and continental implications (including the diasporic/exilic experience) and transcontinental articulations through the writings of pioneer filmmakers and scholars.

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Published: April 1997
ISBN: 9780814325858
$29.99
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Published: April 1997
ISBN: 9780814327050
$44.95

The Autobiography of a Slave / Autobiografia de un Esclavo

by Juan Francisco Manzano
Introduction and Modernized Spanish Version by Ivan A. Schulman
Translated by Evelyn Picon Garfield

A heart-rendering history of the systematic, unrelenting destruction of human dignity and individual will.

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Published: January 1996
ISBN: 9780814325384
$26.99

José Donoso's House of Fiction

A Dramatic Construction of Time and Place

Flora González Mandri

This text examines the multiple narrative perspectives Donoso presents and traces a transformation in Donoso's works from complex stage performance to political forum.

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Published: April 1995
ISBN: 9780814325261
$42.99

Las Literaturas Hispanicas

Introduccion a su estudio: Volumen 2: Espana

Evelyn Picon Garfield
Ivan A. Schulman

Volumen 2: España is the second text in the series Las literaturas hispánicas: Introducción a su estudio.

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Published: December 1990
ISBN: 9780814318645
$42.99

Las Literaturas Hispanicas

Introduccion a su estudio: Volumen 1

Evelyn Picon Garfield
Ivan A. Schulman

This versatile three-volume set is specifically designed to introduce students of Spanish to the literature of Spain and Latin America.

Paperback
Published: December 1990
ISBN: 9780814318638
$39.99

Las Literaturas Hispanicas

Introduccion a su estudio: Volumen 3: Hispanoamerica

Evelyn Picon Garfield
Ivan A. Schulman

In Volumen 3 of Las literaturas hispánicas: Introducción a su estudio, Evelyn Picon Garfield and Ivan A. Schulman include selections from more than forty Spanish American authors from the sixteenth century to the present day.

Paperback
Published: December 1990
ISBN: 9780814318652
$42.99

Women's Voices from Latin America

Selections from Twelve Contemporary Authors

Edited with Translations by Evelyn Picon Garfield

Selections from twelve contemporary authors.

Paperback
Published: November 1987
ISBN: 9780814319628
$22.99