Latin American & Caribbean Studies 2022 HIGHLIGHTS CREOLIZED SEXUALITIES
SONOROUS WORLDS
TRANSFORMING SAINTS
Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean Alison Donnell
Musical Enchantment in Venezuela Yana Stainova
From Spain to New Spain Charlene Villaseñor Black
Critical Caribbean Studies Draws attention to a wide, and surprising, range of writings that craft inclusive and pluralising representations of sexual possibilities within the Caribbean imagination.
2021 206pp 9781978818118 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00 9781978818125 Hardback £97.50 / €113.00
Rutgers University Press
Music and Social Justice An ethnography of the young Venezuelan musicians who participate in the El Sistema music education programme, many of whom live in urban barrios and face everyday gang violence, state repression, social exclusion, and forced migration in response to sociopolitical crisis.
2021 264pp 9780472132737 Hardback £61.50 / €71.00
Explores the transformation and function of the images of holy females within wider religious, social, and political contexts of Old Spain and New Spain, from the Spanish conquest to Mexican independence.
Jul 2022 376pp 9780826504708 Paperback £39.95 / €47.00 9780826504715 Hardback £96.95 / €113.00
Vanderbilt University Press
University of Michigan Press
ARTS, LITERATURE & MEDIA THE BEATS IN MEXICO
CREATING WORLDS OTHERWISE
EROTIC CARTOGRAPHIES
Exploring why the Beats were so fascinated by Mexico and how they represented its culture in their work, this volume examines such canonical figures as Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Ferlinghetti.
Paula Serafini
Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan
Performing Latin American and Caribbean Identities
Critical Caribbean Studies
Offers the narratives that subaltern groups generate around extractivism in Latin America, and shows how they develop, communicate, and mobilise these narratives through art and cultural practices.
Examines how Trinidadian same-sex-loving women use their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices to reinforce and resist colonial ascriptions.
Apr 2022 290pp 9781978828728 Hardback £24.50 / €28.00
Jun 2022 254pp 9780826504555 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 9780826504562 Hardback £81.50 / €94.00
Rutgers University Press
Vanderbilt University Press
David Stephen Calonne
BUYERS BEWARE Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture Patricia Joan Saunders Critical Caribbean Studies
Offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture.
May 2022 240pp 9780813571225 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00 9780813571232 Hardback £97.50 / €113.00
Rutgers University Press
Art, Collective Action, and (Post) Extractivism
ERNA BRODBER AND VELMA POLLARD Folklore and Culture in Jamaica Violet Harrington Bryan Caribbean Studies Series
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard recreate imagined and lived homelands in their literature by commemorating the history, culture, and religion of the Caribbean. Drawing on interviews with the authors, this is the first book to give Brodber and Pollard their due. 2021 144pp 9781496836212 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 9781496836205 Hardback £93.50 / €107.00
University Press of Mississippi
Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination
Jan 2022 276pp 9781978821361 Paperback £32.50 / €38.00 9781978821378 Hardback £105.00 / €122.00
Rutgers University Press
FICTIONS OF WHITENESS
Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel Maeve McCusker New World Studies
Explores the literary construction of whiteness in the francophone Caribbean, and examines the neglected beke figure in the longer history of Antillean literature and culture. 2021 272pp 9780813946788 Paperback £29.95 / €36.00 9780813946771 Hardback £76.95 / €89.00
University of Virginia Press
FOOD STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
HEAR ME WITH YOUR EYES
Edited by Rocío del Aguila & Vanesa Miseres
Ana Forcinito Translated by Andrea Rosenberg & Ana Forcinito
Women, Visions, and Voices in Argentine Cinema
Perspectives on the Gastronarrative Food and Foodways
Presents a timely collection of essays that analyse a wide array of Latin American narratives through the lens of food studies. 2021 247pp 9781682261811 Paperback £24.95 / €29.00
The University of Arkansas Press
HAITIAN REVOLUTIONARY FICTIONS
Examines the intrusion of the voice into the cinematographic gaze and the intersections of the sound-image used by Argentine women filmmakers, from a feminist perspective. Apr 2022 186pp 9781469670942 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
Editorial A Contracorriente The University of North Carolina Press
An incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messages connect to twenty-first-century sociopolitical issues.
Feb 2022 268pp, 37 images 9781683402541 Hardback £74.95 / €87.00
University Press of Florida
PRIMITIVISM AND IDENTITY IN LATIN AMERICA Essays on Art, Literature, and Culture
Edited by Olivia Cosentino & Brian Price
New World Studies
University of Virginia Press
Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America
From Lucha Libre to Cine Familiar and Other Churros
Edited by Marlene L. Daut, Grégory Pierrot & Marion C. Rohrleitner
Feb 2022 1,088pp 9780813945705 Paperback £52.95 / €61.00 9780813945699 Hardback £109.00 / €127.00
Jeremy Lehnen
THE LOST CINEMA OF MEXICO
An Anthology
The Haitian Revolution was the first antislavery and anticolonial uprising led by New World Africans to result in the creation of an independent and slavery-free nation state. This anthology presents a transnational and multilingual selection of literature about the revolution.
NEOAUTHORITARIAN MASCULINITY IN BRAZILIAN CRIME FILM
Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America
Challenges the cultural dismissal of Mexican filmmaking from the 1960s to 1980s, an era long considered a low-budget departure from the artistic quality and international acclaim of the nation's earlier Golden Age. Feb 2022 256pp, 16 images 9781683403050 Paperback £32.95 / €38.00 9781683402534 Hardback £89.50 / €103.00
University Press of Florida
Edited by Erik Camayd-Freixas & José Eduardo González
Examines primitivism and its implications for debates on Latin American culture, literature, and arts, showing how Latin American subjects employ a Western construct to ‘return the gaze' of the outside world. Feb 2022 285pp 9780816547272 Paperback £36.50 / €41.00
The University of Arizona Press
HISTORY, RELIGION & ANTHROPOLOGY EQUALIBERTY IN THE DUTCH CARIBBEAN
FLEXIBLE FAMILIES
Ways of Being Non/Sovereign
Examines the struggles among Nicaraguan migrants in Costa Rica to maintain a sense of family across borders.
Critical Caribbean Studies
Apr 2022 210pp 9781978818668 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 9781978818675 Hardback £97.50 / €113.00
Rutgers University Press
Apr 2022 225pp 9780826504364 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 9780826504371 Hardback £81.50 / €94.00
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Karen Kampwirth
Explores the untold stories of the LGBTQ community of Nicaragua, and its role in the recent political history of the country. May 2022 352pp 9780816542796 Hardback £51.50 / €58.00
Vanderbilt University Press
The University of Arizona Press
THE FORMATION OF LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS
LIFE AND SOCIETY IN THE EARLY SPANISH CARIBBEAN
From Late Antiquity to Early Modernity Thomas Ward
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Revolution, Dictatorship, and Social Movements
Caitlin E. Fouratt
Edited by Yvon van der Pijl & Francio Guadeloupe
Presents a collection of essays that explores questions of equality and freedom on the non-sovereign islands of the Dutch Caribbean.
LGBTQ POLITICS IN NICARAGUA
Nicaraguan Transnational Families in Costa Rica
Rather than starting out in Spain and the ‘discovery' of New World peoples, this volume studies the Mesoamerican and South American nations as they were before European colonialism. Apr 2022 384pp 9780806166087 Paperback £19.95 / €24.00
University of Oklahoma Press
The Greater Antilles, 1493–1550 Ida Altman
Examines the interactions of diverse groups and individuals and the transformation of the islands of the Greater Antilles. 2021 304pp 9780807175781 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 9780807175972 Hardback £64.95 / €75.00
LSU Press
A RETURN TO ROOTS
EBOOK AVAILABLE
MAROONS IN GUYANE
"CuBajans" in Barbados
Past, Present, Future
Reviews the history of Maroon peoples in Guyane, and analyses their current situations in the bustling, multicultural world of this far-flung outpost of the French Republic. Apr 2022 277pp 9780820360867 Paperback £19.95 / €24.00 9780820362458 Hardback £92.95 / €108.00
University of Georgia Press
MESTIZO MODERNITY
Race, Technology, and the Body in Post-Revolutionary Mexico David S. Dalton Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America
In this volume, ’CuBajan’ migrants tell their own stories through oral testimonies, which Sharon Milagro Marshall frames within the context of Barbadian and Cuban history. 2021 244pp 9789766408817 Paperback £29.95 / €35.00
The University of the West Indies Press
REVOLUTIONARY MASCULINITY AND RACIAL INEQUALITY
University Press of Florida
PRECARIOUS DEMOCRACY
Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil Edited by Benjamin Junge et al
Demonstrates the necessity of ethnography for understanding social and political change, and provides crucial insights on one of the most epochal periods of change in Brazilian history.
2021 238pp 9781978825659 Paperback £32.50 / €38.00 9781978825666 Hardback £105.00 / €122.00
Rutgers University Press
REIMAGINING THE GRAN CHACO
Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America Edited by Silvia Hirsch, Paola Canova & Mercedes Biocca
Traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a biodiverse region at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. 2021 360pp, 16 images 9781683402862 Paperback £32.95 / €38.00 9781683402114 Hardback £89.50 / €103.00
University Press of Florida
Edited by Jerome Branche
Explores the question of empire and its aftermath, as reflected in the lives of contemporary Latin Americans of African descent. Jun 2022 270pp 9780826504593 Paperback £32.50 / €38.00 9780826504609 Hardback £81.50 / €94.00
Vanderbilt University Press
TRANSNATIONAL HISPANIOLA
Gendering War and Politics in Cuba
New Directions in Haitian and Dominican Studies
Bonnie A. Lucero
Examines the ways soldiers and politicians coded their discussions of race in ideas of masculinity during Cuba's transition from colony to republic. 2021 360pp 9780826363336 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
University of New Mexico Press
SOLDIERS, SAINTS, AND SHAMANS
After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, post-revolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country's racially diverse population into one official mixed-race identity. This book shows that as part of this vision, the Mexican government believed it could modernise ‘primitive' Indigenous peoples.
2021 250pp 9781683403104 Paperback £24.95 / €30.00
Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora
Sharon Milagro Marshall
Richard Price & Sally Price Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 Series
TRAJECTORIES OF EMPIRE
Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico's Gran Nayar, 1910–1940
Edited by April J. Mayes & Kiran C. Jayaram
In addition to sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a complicated and at times painful history. Yet Transnational Hispaniola shows that there is much more to the two nations' relationship than their perceived antagonism. May 2022 282pp 9781683402688 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00
University Press of Florida
Nathaniel Morris
THE UNEXCEPTIONAL CASE OF HAITI
Based on extensive archival research and years of fieldwork, Nathaniel Morris shows that the Naayari, Wixarika, O'dam, and Mexicanero peoples were actively involved in the armed phase of the Mexican Revolution. Jan 2022 392pp 9780816546930 Paperback £36.50 / €41.00
The University of Arizona Press
SOUTH-SOUTH SOLIDARITY AND THE LATIN AMERICAN LEFT Jessica Stites Mor
Critical Human Rights
Facing repression, the Latin American left in the ‘60s and ‘70s found connection in transnational exchange, organising with activists in Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. This volume begins conversations about what makes these movements unique, how they shaped political identities, and their influence.
Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society
Philippe-Richard Marius Caribbean Studies Series
Investigates the twinned significance of colour/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti.
May 2022 250pp 9781496839084 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 9781496839077 Hardback £93.50 / €107.00
University Press of Mississippi
WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN THE EARLY RASTAFARI MOVEMENT D. A. Dunkley
Presents a pioneering study of women's resistance in the emergent Rastafari movement in colonial Jamaica.
Feb 2022 280pp 9780299336103 Hardback £74.95 / €87.00
University of Wisconsin Press
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2021 208pp 9780807175699 Hardback £36.50 / €43.00
LSU Press
POLITICS, DEVELOPMENT & ECONOMICS How Venezuela Transitioned to Authoritarianism Javier Corrales
Venezuela enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century, but in the past two decades has increasingly descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse. This book explores how and why this happened. Apr 2022 220pp 9780815738077 Paperback £26.50 / €30.00
HOW BRITAIN UNDERDEVELOPED THE CARIBBEAN A Reparation Response to Europe's Legacy of Plunder and Poverty Hilary McD. Beckles
Focuses on the British Empire and shows how successive governments systematically suppressed economic development in their former colonies, and refused to accept responsibility for the debt and development support they owe the Caribbean. 2021 292pp 9789766408695 Paperback £46.50 / €53.00
Brookings Institution Press
EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CARIBBEAN
The University of the West Indies Press
Lorna Down & Therese Ferguson
HUMAN CAPITAL VERSUS BASIC INCOME
Offers a unique perspective on educational approaches to creating a sustainable world, complementing theoretical discussions with practical, ‘real world’ engagements.
Fabián A. Borges
Pedagogy, Processes and Practices
2021 156pp 9789766408909 Paperback £24.95 / €29.00
The University of the West Indies Press
EVADING THE PATRONAGE TRAP Interest Representation in Mexico Brian Palmer-Rubin
Contends that Latin American systems of interest representation exhibit ‘biased pluralism’, meaning that their democracies are unable to confront the structural inequalities which affect economics and social mobility. Jul 2022 328pp 9780472055449 Paperback £34.95 / €41.00 9780472075447 Hardback £72.95 / €85.00
HISTORIES OF DRUG TRAFFICKING IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY MEXICO Edited by Wil G. Pansters & Benjamin T. Smith
Brings together a new generation of drug historians and new historical sources to uncover the history of the drug trade and its regulations. May 2022 360pp 9780826363589 Hardback £61.50 / €71.00
University of New Mexico Press
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Mexico's Cartels, Cops, and Corruption Vanda Felbab-Brown
Crime and security expert Vanda Felbab-Brown conducted more than eight years of fieldwork across Mexico, analysing policy interventions in key crime and violence hotspots, as well as in control cases. The result is Narco Noir, an extensive and unique set of organised crime case studies. Feb 2022 300pp 9780815728184 Hardback £22.95 / €27.00
Brookings Institution Press
THE PARADOX OF PATERNALISM
Women and the Politics of Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic
Ideology and Models of Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America Combining cross-national research and in-depth case studies, this study challenges the idea that the so-called ‘left turn’ in Latin American politics and conditional cash transfer programmes were unrelated. Feb 2022 280pp 9780472038978 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
University of Michigan Press
LATIN AMERICAN IMMIGRATION ETHICS Edited by Amy Reed-Sandoval & Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda
University of Michigan Press
NARCO NOIR
Brings together original works by prominent philosophers writing about immigration ethics from within a Latin American context. 2021 312pp 9780816542727 Paperback £36.50 / €41.00 9780816542734 Hardback £100.00/ €116.00
The University of Arizona Press
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Elizabeth S. Manley
Explains how women activists from across the political spectrum engaged with the state by working within both authoritarian regimes and inter-American networks, founding modern Dominican feminism, and contributing to the rise of twentieth-century women's liberation movements in the Global South. Jun 2022 336pp 9780813069425 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
University Press of Florida
UNLAWFUL VIOLENCE
Mexican Law and Cultural Production Rebecca Janzen Critical Mexican Studies
Measures fictional accounts of human rights against new laws, and explores debates about these laws in the Mexican house of representatives and senate. May 2022 300pp 9780826504449 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 9780826504456 Hardback £81.50 / €94.00
Vanderbilt University Press
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