Frederick Luis Aldama

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A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction

University of Texas Press

A deep exploration of the ways in which postcolonial narrative fiction both acts on and is acted upon by the modern world.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Growing Up in the Gutter

Diaspora and Comics

The University of Arizona Press

Scholars interested in Graphic Arts, Postcolonial & Decolonial Studies, Global South Studies, Diaspora & Migration Studies, American Literature, African American Studies, Asian & Asian American Studies, Chicanx & Latinx Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century

The University of Arizona Press

Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary television by and about U.S. Latinx communities. This volume unpacks the negative implications of older representation and celebrates the progress of new representation, all while recognizing that television still has a long way to go.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Picturing Childhood

Youth in Transnational Comics

University of Texas Press

Uniting the perspectives of comics studies and childhood studies, this pioneering collection is the first book devoted to representations of childhood in iconic US and international comics from the 1930s to the present.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Latinx Files

Race, Migration, and Space Aliens

Rutgers University Press

The Latinx Files: Race, Migration, and Space Aliens traces how Latinx science fiction writers are reclaiming the space alien from its xenophobic legacy in science fiction. It argues that the space alien is a vital Latinx figure preserving Latinx cultures by activating the myriad possible constructions of the space alien to represent race and migration.
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities

The University of Arizona Press

With unity of heart and mind, the creative and the scholarly, Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities opens wide its arms to all non-binary, decolonial masculinities today to grow a stronger, resilient, and more compassionate new generation of Latinxs tomorrow.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia

Conversations with Writers and Artists

University of Texas Press

Lively, thought-provoking interviews with twenty-one "second wave" Chicano/a poets, fiction writers, dramatists, documentary filmmakers, and playwrights.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Brown on Brown

Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity

University of Texas Press

An investigation of the ways in which race and sexuality intersect and function in Chicano/a literature and film.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Postethnic Narrative Criticism

Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie

University of Texas Press

This book seeks to redeem and refine the theory of magical realism in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film.

  • Copyright year: 2003
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Your Brain on Latino Comics

From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez

University of Texas Press

The first comprehensive exploration of Latino representations in comics, from Marvel superheroes to creations by Latino masters such as Richard Dominguez.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts

University of Texas Press

Noted scholars analyze a variety of creative works—plays by Samuel Beckett, novels by Maxine Hong Kingston, music compositions by Igor Stravinsky, art by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, and films by Michael Haneke— to offer a unified knowledge of artistic creativity.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Long Stories Cut Short

Fictions from the Borderlands

The University of Arizona Press

Frederick Luis Aldama and graphic artists from Mapache Studios give shape to ugly truths in the most honest way, creating new perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about life in the borderlands of the Américas. Each bilingual prose-art fictional snapshot offers an unsentimentally complex glimpse into what it means to exist at the margins of society today.

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