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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Jaguars' Tomb
Authors: Angélica Gorodischer; translated by Amalia Gladhart
Language: English
Edition: First
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Resisting Extractivism
Peruvian Gold, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention
Authors: Michael Wilson Becerril
Language: English
Edition: First
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Manifold Destiny
Arabs at an American Crossroads of Exceptional Rule
Authors: John Tofik Kara
Language: English
Edition: First
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Francisco de Paula Brito
A Black Publisher in Imperial Brazil
Authors: Rodrigo Camargo de Godoi; translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill
Language: English
Edition: First
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Cyborgs, Sexuality, and teh Undead
The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction
Authors: M. Elizabeth Ginway
Language: English
Edition: First
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Delivering Health
Midwifery and Development in Mexico
Authors: Lydia Z. Dixon
Language: English
Edition: First
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The Restless Dead
Necrowriting and Disappropriation
Authors: Cristina Rivera Garza; translated by Robin Myers
Language: English
Edition: First
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In Search of Providence
Transnational Mayan Identities
Authors: Patricia Foxen
Language: English
Edition: Updated Edition (2020)
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Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and Spain
Authors: Rafael Climent-Espino & Ana M. Gómez-Bravo
Language: English
Edition: First
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Higglers in Kingston
Women's Informal Work in Jamaica
Authors: Winnifred Brown-Glaude
Language: English
Edition: First
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