Vanderbilt University Press extends the university's scholarly mission by publishing dynamic, well-researched books for a global audience of engaged readers. We publish books in the areas of Latin American and Hispanic studies, with editorial interests including most areas of humanities and social sciences. We seek intellectually provocative and socially significant works in these areas, as well as works that are interdisciplinary or that blend scholarly and practical concerns.
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Critical Mexican Studies
Series editor: Ignacio Sánchez Prado
Series volumes available now
- The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation by Cristina Rivera Garza (translated by Robin Myers)
- History and Modern Media: A Personal Journey by John Mraz
- Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance by Irmgard Emmelhainz
Forthcoming volumes
- Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture by Oswaldo Zavala (May 2022)
- Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production by Rebecca Janzen (May 2022)
- The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance by Ignacio López-Calvo (November 2022)
- Monstrous Politics: Geography, Rights, and the Urban Revolution in Mexico City by Ben Gerlofs (January 2023)
Performing Latin American and Caribbean Identities
Series editor: Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
Series volumes available now
- Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom by Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
- Atenco Lives! Filmmaking and Popular Struggle in Mexico by Livia K. Stone
- Living Quixote: Performative Activism in Contemporary Brazil and the Americas by Rogelio Miñana
Forthcoming volumes
- Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extactivism by Paula Serafini (June 2022)
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[Forthcoming] Transforming Saints
From Spain to New Spain
Authors: Charlene Villaseñor Black
Language: English
Edition: First
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Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom
Latin American Authors and the Western Canon
Authors: Juan E. De Castro
Language: English
Edition: First
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[Forthcoming] Unlawful Violence
Mexican Law and Cultural Production
Authors: Rebeccca Janzen
Language: English
Edition: First
Book Webpage: Click here
[Forthcoming] Drug Cartels Do Not Exist
Narcotrafficking in the US and Mexican Culture
Authors: Oswaldo Zavala
Language: English
Edition: First
Book Webpage: Click here
[Forthcoming] Creating Worlds Otherwise
Art, Collecctive Action, and (Post)Extractivism
Authors: Paula Serafini
Language: English
Edition: First
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[Forthcoming] Trajectories of Empire
Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora
Authors: Jerome C. Branche
Language: English
Edition: First
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[Forthcoming] Flexible Families
Nicaraguan Transnational Familiese in Costa Rica
Authors: Caitlin Fouratt
Language: English
Edition: First
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[Forthcoming] Journey without End
Migration from the Global South through hthe Americas
Authors: Andrew Nelson and Rob Curran
Language: English
Edition: First
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[Forthcoming] The Mexican Transpacific
Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, an Performance
Authors: Ignacio López-Calvo
Language: English
Edition: First
Book Webpage: Click here
[Forthcoming] Monstrous Politics
Geography, Rights, and the Urban Revolution in Mexico City
Authors: Ben Gerlofs
Language: English
Edition: First
Book Webpage: Click here