The University Press of Florida and UF Press are offering discounts and free shipping within the U.S. on titles in Latin American and Caribbean studies. Subject areas include anthropology, arts, culture, history, literature, political science, and media studies. Browse all books here and use code LASA22.
Do you have book project or idea? We invite proposals from new and established scholars working in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and our editor Stephanye Hunter would love to hear from you. Email her at sah@upress.ufl.edu.
Authors in Conversation: Elizabeth S. Manley and Heather Hennes
Our editor-in-chief Stephanye Hunter hosted a conversation between Elizabeth S. Manley, author of The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and the Politics of Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic, and Heather Hennes, translator of Minou Tavárez Mirabal's The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez: Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo. Watch the conversation here:
Meet the Authors: Angela L. Willis and Rafael Ocasio, The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas
Meet Angela L. Willis and Rafael Ocasio, coauthors (with Sandro R. Barros) of The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas. Their book demonstrates Reinaldo Arenas’s influence as public pedagogue, mentor, and social activist whose teaching on resistance to normative ideologies resonates in societies past, present, and future. This book presents the Cuban writer’s poetry, novels, and plays as a curriculum of dissidence that provides models for socially engaged intellectual activism.
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Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness
Authors: Edited by Anjanette Delgado
Language: English
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Reimagining the Gran Chaco
Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America
Authors: Edited by Silvia Hirsch, Paola Canova, and Mercedes Biocca
Language: English
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Jewish Experiences across the Americas
Local Histories through Global Lenses
Authors: Edited by Katalin Franciska Rac and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio
Language: English
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Neo-Authoritarian Masculinity in Brazilian Crime Film
Authors: Jeremy Lehnen
Language: English
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The Lost Cinema of Mexico
From Lucha Libre to Cine Familiar and Other Churros
Authors: Edited by Olivia Cosentino and Brian Price
Language: English
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The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas
Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum
Authors: Sandro R. Barros, Rafael Ocasio, and Angela L. Willis
Language: English
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Dictionary of Latin American Identities
Authors: John T. Maddox IV and Thomas M. Stephens
Language: English
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Telling Migrant Stories
Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film
Authors: Edited by Esteban E. Loustaunau and Lauren E. Shaw
Language: English
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Istwa across the Water
Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination
Authors: Toni Pressley-Sanon
Language: English
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Mestizo Modernity
Race, Technology, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Authors: David S. Dalton
Language: English
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