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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.
Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away
Memories of Early Cuban Exiles
Autores: David Powell
Lengua: English
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The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez
Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo
Autores: Minou Tavárez Mirabal, Introduction and Translation by Heather Hennes
Lengua: English
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Healthcare in Latin America
History, Society, Culture
Autores: Edited by David S. Dalton and Douglas J. Weatherford
Lengua: English
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Writing Islands
Space and Identity in the Transnational Cuban Archipelago
Autores: Elena Lahr-Vivaz
Lengua: English
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Under the Shade of Thipaak
The Ethnoecology of Cycads in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean
Autores: Edited by Michael D. Carrasco, Angélica Cibrián-Jaramillo, Mark A. Bonta, and Joshua D. Englehardt
Lengua: English
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Creole Renegades
Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora
Autores: Bénédicte Boisseron
Lengua: English
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Transnational Hispaniola
New Directions in Haitian and Dominican Studies
Autores: Edited by April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram
Lengua: English
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The Paradox of Paternalism
Women and the Politics of Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic
Autores: Elizabeth S. Manley
Lengua: English
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Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children
Autores: Deborah Shnookal
Lengua: English
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Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Autores: Kwame Dixon
Lengua: English
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