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The Limits of Identity
Politics and Poetics in Latin America
University of Texas Press
Ranging over works of literature, political theory, and cultural criticism from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, this book offers a radical challenge to the theory of anti-universalism widely accepted in Latin American studies.
Photopoetics at Tlatelolco
Afterimages of Mexico, 1968
University of Texas Press
Drawing on diverse photographic, cinematic, and literary artifacts, this critical study reinterprets the 1968 massacre of student-populist protesters in Mexico City, examining both the effects of the violence and the subsequent state-sponsored manipulatio
Culture and Revolution
Violence, Memory, and the Making of Modern Mexico
University of Texas Press
This aesthetic reading of politics, society, and culture during and after the Mexican Revolution illuminates how culture mediates power and, rather than uniting a people, collects heterogeneous communities into a diverse archive of memory.
Infrastructures of Race
Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico
University of Texas Press
With case studies that link practices of concentration to the emergence of new racial categories, this groundbreaking book convincingly argues that race was a product of, rather than a starting point for, the spatial politics of colonial rule in Latin Ame
Delirious Consumption
Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil
University of Texas Press
Looking at several of the leading figures in postwar Latin American letters and art, this volume offers an enlarged understanding of the way art is produced in, and responds to, the age of consumer culture.
The Vanishing Frame
Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era
University of Texas Press
Examining the works of writers and artists such as Roberto Bolaño, Fernando Botero, Pablo Larraín, and Alejandro Zambra, this pathfinding book challenges postdictatorial aesthetics by focusing on the concept of aesthetic autonomy as a critique of economic inequality.
Universal Citizenship
Latina/o Studies at the Limits of Identity
University of Texas Press
This rich theoretical analysis redefines and relocates the concept of universal citizenship at the revolutionary limits of the nation and identity.
Violence and Naming
On Mexico and the Promise of Literature
University of Texas Press
A compelling reassertion of the importance of "literature" (that which names) as a determiner for how we engage in and with the world, paying particular attention to violence against women and Amerindians in Mexico's recent and formative history.
Against Abstraction
Notes from an Ex-Latin Americanist
University of Texas Press
In a deeply personal, genre-bending work, the critical theorist reflects on his career, from his emigration from Spain to pursue doctoral studies to his thirty years of immersion in the capricious tides of academia.
Haunting Without Ghosts
Spectral Realism in Colombian Literature, Film, and Art
University of Texas Press
An ambitious critical account of "spectral realism," a new, politically charged strain of literature, film, and art that responds to Colombia's drug wars, paramilitary violence, and resulting demands for justice.
Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge
Building a Community Archive
Edited by Robert Irwin
University of Texas Press
A collection of digital stories from the Humanizing Deportation project that reveals a uniquely expert point of view of Mexican and Central American migrant experiences: those of the migrants themselves.
Portable Postsocialisms
New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History
By Paloma Duong
University of Texas Press
A study of Cuban culture and media in the twenty-first century as both a global phenomenon and a local reality, at a time when the declared death of socialism coexists in tension with emerging anticapitalist movements worldwide.
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