This book explores the relationship between the Cuban Revolution and Western intellectuals and activists during the early days of the Revolution in the 1960s....

"...This book explores the relationship between the Cuban Revolution and Western intellectuals and activists during the early days of the Revolution in the 1960s..... This book explores the relationship between the Cuban Revolution and Western intellectuals and activists during the early days of the Revolution in the 1960s. Analyzing the cases of France, Britain and the United States, it records the rise and fall of the personal and intellectual attraction that developed between a new generation of..."

This book examines women's writings in relation to language, power, sexuality, and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the creation of alternative matria...

"...This book examines women's writings in relation to language, power, sexuality, and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the creation of alternative matria.... This book examines women's writings in relation to language, power, sexuality, and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the creation of alternative matria frameworks that enunciate a feminist/feminine perspective of the nationalist discourse. Cámara-Betancourt discusses four Cuban writers: Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta, Lydia Cabrera, María Ele..."

This collection is a multidisciplinary evaluation of the impact of market reforms in Cuba’s cultural policies and practices after the fall of the Soviet bloc....

"...This collection is a multidisciplinary evaluation of the impact of market reforms in Cuba’s cultural policies and practices after the fall of the Soviet bloc..... This collection is a multidisciplinary evaluation of the impact of market reforms in Cuba’s cultural policies and practices after the fall of the Soviet bloc. Anthropologists, musicologists, and literary, film, media and art scholars examine revolutionary discourses, representations of people and places, ideologies and practices of cu..."

This study examines representations of the cityscape and of a so-called "new urban violence" in both detective-centered and detectiveless crime fiction...

"...This collection is a multidisciplinary evaluation of the impact of market reforms in Cuba’s cultural policies and practices after the fall of the Soviet bloc..... This collection is a multidisciplinary evaluation of the impact of market reforms in Cuba’s cultural policies and practices after the fall of the Soviet bloc. Anthropologists, musicologists, and literary, film, media and art scholars examine revolutionary discourses, representations of people and places, ideologies and practices of cu..."

Two motifs of an angel of history, one European and one Mexican, provide a theoretical framework for this book. The first is Walter Benjamin's interpretation...

"...This collection is a multidisciplinary evaluation of the impact of market reforms in Cuba’s cultural policies and practices after the fall of the Soviet bloc..... This collection is a multidisciplinary evaluation of the impact of market reforms in Cuba’s cultural policies and practices after the fall of the Soviet bloc. Anthropologists, musicologists, and literary, film, media and art scholars examine revolutionary discourses, representations of people and places, ideologies and practices of cu..."

While Latin American literary tradition frequently has been read with attention to monstrosity or the calibanesque, as overarching metaphors of collective...

"...This collection is a multidisciplinary evaluation of the impact of market reforms in Cuba’s cultural policies and practices after the fall of the Soviet bloc..... This collection is a multidisciplinary evaluation of the impact of market reforms in Cuba’s cultural policies and practices after the fall of the Soviet bloc. Anthropologists, musicologists, and literary, film, media and art scholars examine revolutionary discourses, representations of people and places, ideologies and practices of cu..."

While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how...

"...While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how.... While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how to move beyond this model. What are the alternatives they imagine? Do these alternatives represent a genuine break? Twelve cutting-edge papers investigate how Latin Americans ar..."

Kirsten Sehnbruch uses the case study of Chile to show the failures and inner-working of neo-liberal labour policy. She shows in detail what the real policy...

"...While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how.... While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how to move beyond this model. What are the alternatives they imagine? Do these alternatives represent a genuine break? Twelve cutting-edge papers investigate how Latin Americans ar..."

This highly topical volume seeks to analyze the intimate but under-studied relationship between the construction of national identity in Latin America and the...

"...While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how.... While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how to move beyond this model. What are the alternatives they imagine? Do these alternatives represent a genuine break? Twelve cutting-edge papers investigate how Latin Americans ar..."

The Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) is a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American...

"...While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how.... While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how to move beyond this model. What are the alternatives they imagine? Do these alternatives represent a genuine break? Twelve cutting-edge papers investigate how Latin Americans ar..."

Contributors to the volume: Erin Graff Zivin * Bruno Bosteels * Gabriela Basterra * Idelber Avelar * Esther Gabara * Sergio Chejfec * Gabriel Riera * Alberto...

"...Contributors to the volume: Erin Graff Zivin * Bruno Bosteels * Gabriela Basterra * Idelber Avelar * Esther Gabara * Sergio Chejfec * Gabriel Riera * Alberto.... The last several decades have witnessed a reorientation of the political and a globalization of the cultural in Latin America, shifting literature's function as a homogenizing, citizen-forming institution to a more dispersed, fragmented, and (potentially) democratic and liberating practice.  At the same time, and perhaps in response to..."

This is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of...

"...This is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of.... This is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of the Western dominant model.. ..."

What is “authoritarian rule” and how can we best study it? Using the case of the twentieth-century Dominican southwest, this book investigates new ways of...

"...This is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of.... This is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of the Western dominant model.. ..."

While public health is important for revolutionary Cuba, providing medical services to the developing world is also a priority: 38,000 medical staff are...

"...This is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of.... This is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of the Western dominant model.. ..."

How far is there a regional trend away from neoliberalism in Latin America and how can we characterize the new forms of state activism that are emerging in the...

"...How far is there a regional trend away from neoliberalism in Latin America and how can we characterize the new forms of state activism that are emerging in the.... How far is there a regional trend away from neoliberalism in Latin America and how can we characterize the new forms of state activism that are emerging in the region? This book explores different expressions and approaches to post-neoliberal governance in Latin America and identifies the place of social and political inclusion, as w..."

This collection brings together leading international scholars and filmmakers focusing on Latin American cinema. Themes discussed include subjectivity,...

"...How far is there a regional trend away from neoliberalism in Latin America and how can we characterize the new forms of state activism that are emerging in the.... How far is there a regional trend away from neoliberalism in Latin America and how can we characterize the new forms of state activism that are emerging in the region? This book explores different expressions and approaches to post-neoliberal governance in Latin America and identifies the place of social and political inclusion, as w..."

This book investigates the manner in which Chilean media and public culture discuss human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of General...

"...How far is there a regional trend away from neoliberalism in Latin America and how can we characterize the new forms of state activism that are emerging in the.... How far is there a regional trend away from neoliberalism in Latin America and how can we characterize the new forms of state activism that are emerging in the region? This book explores different expressions and approaches to post-neoliberal governance in Latin America and identifies the place of social and political inclusion, as w..."

With the rise of globalization, the American hemisphere has been integrated economically and politically. But what is the role of culture in this new...

"...With the rise of globalization, the American hemisphere has been integrated economically and politically. But what is the role of culture in this new.... ..."

Service encounters involve communication between strangers. Communication - or, at times, miscommunication - between strangers who come from different groups...

"...With the rise of globalization, the American hemisphere has been integrated economically and politically. But what is the role of culture in this new.... ..."

Residential segregation is a key issue for good governance in Latin American cities. The isolation of people of different social classes or ethnicities has...

"...With the rise of globalization, the American hemisphere has been integrated economically and politically. But what is the role of culture in this new.... ..."

This book focuses on the vulnerability of beyond-risk young females connected to male street-based youth gangs involved in violence, drug use, crime and sexual...

"...With the rise of globalization, the American hemisphere has been integrated economically and politically. But what is the role of culture in this new.... ..."

None of the Above is a state-of-the-art volume about current debates regarding Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans, both in the United States and on the Island. The...

"...With the rise of globalization, the American hemisphere has been integrated economically and politically. But what is the role of culture in this new.... ..."

Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or...

"...Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or.... Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or challenge our commonly held beliefs about motherhood and maternity, in an effort to stop depression and melancholy. It suggests that the widespread violent depression and someti..."

Set in the dark underworlds of 1950s Miami and East Harlem, the riveting story of the FBI’s "Tamale Squad," tasked with gaining Cuban intelligence.

"...Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or.... Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or challenge our commonly held beliefs about motherhood and maternity, in an effort to stop depression and melancholy. It suggests that the widespread violent depression and someti..."