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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Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures
Feminist Living as Resistance
Authors: Irmgard Emmelhainz
Language: English
Edition: First
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Centenary Subjects
Race, Reason, and Rupture in the Americas
Authors: Shawn McDaniel
Language: English
Edition: First
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When a Robot Decides to Die and Other Stories
Authors: Francisco García González; translated by Bradley J. Nelson
Language: English
Edition: First
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Borges
An Introduction
Authors: Julio Premat; translated by Amanda Murphy
Language: English
Edition: First
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The Reinvention of Mexico in Contemporary Spanish Travel Writing
Authors: Jane Hanley
Language: English
Edition: First
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Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America
A P ostal Inspector's Expose
Authors: Ruth Hill
Language: English
Edition: First
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José Martí’s Liberative Political Theology
Authors: Miguel A. De La Torre
Language: English
Edition: First
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History and Modern Media
A Personal Journey
Authors: John Mraz
Language: English
Edition: First
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Rerality in Movement
Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public Intellectual
Authors: Maarten Van Delden
Language: English
Edition: First
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Deviant and Useful Citizens
The Cultural Production of the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Peru
Authors: Mariselle Melendez
Language: English
Edition: First
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