Contemporary Latin Songs
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Desire Unlimited : The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar (Critical Studies in Latin American and Iberian Cultures)
Paul Julian Smith / Paperback /
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Ecuador in Focus : A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture (In
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Elections and Democracy in Central America, Revisited
Mitchell A. Seligson, John A. Booth (Editor) /
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Encyclopedia of World Cultures : South America Vol 7
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The Ethnic Eye : Latino Media Arts
Chon A. Noriega, Ana M. Lopez (Editor) / Paperback
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Everynight Life : Culture and Dance in Latin America
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Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Ines De LA Cruz (Latin American
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Framing Latin
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Ann Marie Stock, Ambrosio Fornet (Translator) / Paperback /
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Hatful of Tigers : Reflections on Art, Culture and Politics
Sergio Ramirez, D.J. Flakoll (Translator) /
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Hatful of Tigers is a collection of poetic essays, reminiscences, and sketches
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The Hispanic 100 : A Ranking of the Latino Men and Women Who Have Most Influenced
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Himilce Novas / Hardcover / Published 1995, 495 pages
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The Hispanic Condition : Reflections on Culture and Identity in America
Ilan Stevans / Paperback / Published 1996
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Hispanic Culture in the Southwest
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Hispanic Nation : Culture, Politics and the Constructing of Identity
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The author, Geoffrey Fox (gefox@hotmail.com), 01/28/97:
The imagined community of US "Hispanics" or "Latinos," with its
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associations and artists, is on its way to becoming America's most powerful ethnic group.
I especially welcome comments from readers who are themselves part, or potentially part,
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Hombres Y MacHos : Masculinity and Latino Culture
Alfredo Mirande / Hardcover
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Human Rights and
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Alexandra de Brito's insightful new study analyses the attempts by Chile and Uruguay
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Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Latin America
Lars Schoultz / Paperback /
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Latin American Vanguards : The Art of Contentious Encounters (Latin
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Vicky Unruh / Paperback / Published 1994
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Latina Politics, Latino Politics : Gender, Culture, and Political Participation
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Carol Hardy-Fanta / Paperback / Published 1993
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Latino Literacy : The Complete Guide to Hispanic American Culture and History
Frank De Varona / Paperback / Published 1996
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Living Language : Spanish All the Way : Conversation / Grammar / Culture / Reading / Writing (The Living Language Series)
Irwin Stern / Paperback / Published 1994, 397 pages
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Mujerista Theology : A Theology for the Twenty-First Century
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz / Paperback / Published 1996,
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Mujerista Theology is a comprehensive introduction to Hispanic feminist theology
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The New Latin American Cinema : A Continental Project (Texas Film
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Zuzana M. Pick / Paperback / Published 1993, 251 pages
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New Latin American Cinema : Studies of National Cinemas (Contemporary
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Michael T. Martin (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1997, 480
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pioneer filmmakers and scholars. A highly recommended addition to cinematic history
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New Latin American Cinema : Theory, Practices and Transcontinental Articulations
(Contemporary Film and Television Series) Vol 1
Michael T. Martin (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1997, 336
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The New Novel in Latin America : Politics and Popular Culture After the Boom
Philip Swanson / Hardcover / Published 1995
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A critical analysis of Latin American writers from the 1960s to the present reveals
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Puig, Vargas Llosa, Cabrera, Infante, Fuentes, Donoso, Sainz, Lispector, and Isabel
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On Edge : The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture (Cultural
Politics, Vol 4)
George Yudice, et al / Paperback / Published 1992, 234 pages
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The Other Side : Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City, and Beyond
Ruben Martinez / Paperback / Published 1993, 170
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Here is a convincing, often exhilarating vision of a new Latino culture that bubbles
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Photographs throughout.
The Other Writing : Essays in Postcolonialism and Latin America's Writing Culture
Djelal Kadir / Paperback / Published 1993, 220 pages
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Painting on the Page : Interartistic Approaches to Modern Hispanic Texts (Suny
Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)
Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal, Carlos Feal / Paperback / Published
1995
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Passion of the People? Football in South America : Football (Critical
Studies in Latin American and Iberian Culture)
Tony Mason / Paperback / Published 1995, 174 pages
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Popular Voices in Latin American Catholicism (Studies in Church and
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Daniel H. Levine / Paperback / Published 1992, 403 pages
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The Postmodern Novel in Latin America : Politics, Culture, and the Crisis of
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Raymond Leslie Williams / Paperback / Published 1997
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Williams (Latin American literature, U. of Colorado-Boulder) introduces the major
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The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America (Boundary 2 : An
International Journal of Literature and Culture, Vol 20, No 3 Fall 1993)
John Beverley, et al / Paperback / Published 1994
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Rascally Signs in Sacred Places : The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua
David E. Whisnant / Paperback / Published 1995,
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Reading North by South : On Latin American Literature, Culture, and Politics
Neil Larsen / Paperback / Published 1995, 234 pages
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Rebel Without a Crew : Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a
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Robert Rodriguez / Paperback / Published 1996
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In Rebel Without a Crew, screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez discloses all the
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The Reordering of Culture : Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada : In the Hood
Alvina Ruprecht, Cecilia Taiana (Editor) / Paperback /
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Repression, Exile, and Democracy : Uruguayan Culture (Latin America in
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Saul Sosnowski, Louise B. Popkin (Editor) / Paperback /
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The Revolutionary Mission : American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945
(Cambridge Latin American Studies, No 81)
Thomas F. O'Brien / Hardcover / Published 1996, 356 pages
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Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda (Latin American Literature and Culture)
Vol 4
Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) / Paperback
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Selena : The Phenomenal Life and Tragic Death of the Tejano Music Queen
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Clint Richmond, Shawn Fields (Translator) / Mass Market
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Spanish in the United States : Sociolinguistic Issues
John J Bergen (Editor) / Paperback / Published
1990
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Spanish-Speaking World : An Anthology of Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Louise Fiber Luce / Paperback / Published 1991,
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Structures of Power : Essays on Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Fiction
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Terry J. Peavler, Peter Standish (Editor) / Paperback /
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Theatre in Latin America; Religion, Politics, and Culture from Cortes to the
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Adam Vensenyi / Hardcover / Published 1993, 229 pages
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Versenyi explores the history of Latin American theatre from pre-Columbian days to
contemporary drama. Theatre in Latin America has historically been a powerful force for
social change and has frequently combined religious and political concerns with
performance practice to create a style of drama unique to the region. Versenyi
investigates this special interconnection of religion, politics, and theatre, and finds
this relationship present from the earliest contacts between Cortes and the Aztecs through
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Women Writing Women : An Anthology of Spanish-American Theater of the 1980s
(Suny Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)
Teresa Cajiao Salas, Margarita Vargas (Editor) / Paperback /
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This first anthology in English dedicated exclusively to Spanish-American women
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challenging traditional male representations of women. While the plays humorously reveal
the cultural and social politics of each country, they also examine seriously the
absurdities of everyday life. The playwrights include Isidora Aguirre (Chile), Sabina
Berman (Mexico), Myrna Casas (Puerto Rico), Teresa Marichal (Puerto Rico), Diana Raznovich
(Argentina), Mariela Romero (Venezuela), Beatriz Seibel (Argentina), and Maruxa Vilalta
(Mexico).
