Latin American & Caribbean Studies 2021 HISTORY NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR
HIGHLIGHTS
THE BATTLE FOR PEACE
THE GUISE OF EXCEPTIONALISM
The Long Road to Ending a War with the World's Oldest Guerrilla Army
Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States
Juan Manuel Santos Translated by Joe Broderick Apr 2021 464pp 9780700630660 Hardback US$29.95
Robert Fatton, Jr.
Apr 2021 262pp 9781978821316 Paperback US$34.95 9781978821323 Hardback US$120.00
Critical Caribbean Studies Traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. Rutgers University Press
TOWARD A GLOBAL HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA'S REVOLUTIONARY LEFT Edited by Tanya Harmer & Alberto Martín Alvarez
Apr 2021 304pp 9781683401698 Hardback US$90.00
Showcases new research on the global reach of Latin American revolutionary movements during the height of the Cold War, mapping out the region's connections with Africa, Asia, and Europe. University Press of Florida
ARTELETRA
Tells the story not only of the six years of negotiation and the peace process that transformed a country, but also of the two previous decades in which Colombia oscillated between warlike confrontation and negotiated solution. University Press of Kansas
BLACK WOMEN, CITIZENSHIP, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN CUBA Takkara K. Brunson
Jun 2021 272pp 9781683402084 Hardback US$80.00
Traces how women of African descent battled exclusion on multiple fronts but played an important role in forging a modern democracy. University Press of Florida
THE CONQUEST OF THE DESERT
Argentina's Indigenous Peoples and the Battle for History Edited by Carolyne R. Larson
Dec 2020 256pp 9780826362070 Paperback US$29.95 9780826362063 Hardback US$95.00
Dialogos Series Brings together scholars to offer an interdisciplinary examination of Argentina's Conquest of the Desert and its legacies. University of New Mexico Press
The Sixties in Latin America and the Politics of Going Unnoticed
CONSTRUCTING THE SPANISH EMPIRE IN HAVANA
Apr 2021 254pp 9781612496535 Paperback US$44.99 9781612496665 Hardback US$99.99
Evelyn Jennings
Jason A. Bartles
Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Analyses the sixties in Latin America in order to revisit the core claim of literary and cultural studies to political relevancy in the contemporary world: the task of making visible the invisible. Purdue University Press
State Slavery in Defense and Development, 1762-1835 Dec 2020 298pp 9780807173947 Hardback US$45.00
Examines the political economy surrounding the use of enslaved labourers in Spanish imperial Cuba from 1762 to 1835. LSU Press
THE HAITIANS
A Decolonial History Jean Casimir
Oct 2020 452pp 9781469660486 Paperback US$34.95 9781469651545 Hardback US$95.00
Latin America in Translation Argues that the story of Haiti begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even through the US occupation in 1915. The University of North Carolina Press
HIERARCHY, COMMERCE, AND FRAUD IN BOURBON SPANISH AMERICA A Postal Inspector's Expose Ruth Hill
Jun 2021 408pp 9780826501523 Paperback US$39.95
Using Guide for Blind Rovers by Alonso Carrio de Lavandera as a jumping off point for a sprawling discussion of 18th-century Spanish America, Ruth Hill argues for a richer, more nuanced understanding of the relationship between Spain and its western colonies. Vanderbilt University Press
THE NATURAL, MORAL, AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF JAMAICA James Knight Edited by Jack P. Greene
May 2021 832pp 9780813945569 Hardback US$65.00
Early American Histories Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. Held in the British Library, this work is now published for the first time. University of Virginia Press
ENVISIONING CUBA SERIES CUBAN MEMORY WARS
LITERATURE, MEDIA & THE ARTS
Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile
GOTHIC IMAGINATION IN LATIN AMERICAN FICTION AND FILM
Michael J. Bustamante
Mar 2021 318pp, 15 images 9781469662039 Paperback US$29.95 9781469662022 Hardback US$95.00
For many Cubans, Fidel Castro's revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality. For others, Cuba's turn to socialism made the pre-revolutionary period look like paradise lost. Michael Bustamante unsettles this familiar schism by excavating Cubans' contested memories of the Revolution's roots and results over its first twenty years.
DANCING WITH THE REVOLUTION
Carmen A. Serrano
Apr 2021 264pp 9780826362773 Paperback US$29.95
Traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. University of New Mexico Press
Elizabeth B. Schwall
Aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance in ballet, modern dance, and folkloric dance, Elizabeth Schwall analyses how and why dance artists interacted with republican and, later, revolutionary politics.
THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN HEALTH Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana Daniel A. Rodríguez
Sep 2020 288pp 9781469659732 Paperback US$34.95 9781469659725 Hardback US$95.00
Local Lives, Global Spaces Cecily Raynor
Apr 2021 212pp 9781684482566 Paperback US$34.95 9781684482573 Hardback US$120.00
Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory Analyses literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s, to reveal representations of the human experience that unsettle conventionally understood links between locality and geographical place. Bucknell University Press
BRANDING BRAZIL
Transforming Citizenship on Screen Leslie L. Marsh
May 2021 236pp 9781978819290 Paperback US$29.95 9781978819306 Hardback US$120.00
Focuses on the intersection of public health and politics in Havana. While medical policies were often used to further American colonial power, in Cuba they evolved into important expressions of anticolonial nationalism as Cuba struggled to establish itself as a modern state.
Examines a panorama of contemporary cultural productions including film, television, photography, and alternative media to explore the transformation of citizenship in Brazil from 2003 to 2014. Rutgers University Press
The University of North Carolina Press
CUBA'S DIGITAL REVOLUTION
Citizen Innovation and State Policy
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The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction M. Elizabeth Ginway
Dec 2020 246pp 9780826501172 Paperback US$34.95 9780826501189 Hardback US$99.95
Expands the traditional purview of speculative fiction in all its incarnations beyond the traditional Anglo-American context to focus on work produced in Mexico and Brazil. Vanderbilt University Press
DREAMS OF ARCHIVES UNFOLDED Absence and Caribbean Life Writing
LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AT THE MILLENNIUM
Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba
May 2021 320pp, 21 images 9781469662978 Paperback US$34.95 9781469662961 Hardback US$95.00
CYBORGS, SEXUALITY, AND THE UNDEAD
HIGHLIGHTS
Jun 2021 352pp 9781683402022 Hardback US$95.00
Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America Argues that since 2013, technological developments have allowed for a fundamental reconfiguration of the cultural, economic, social, and political spheres. University Press of Florida
Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
Jun 2021 240pp 9781978806542 Paperback US$34.95 9781978806559 Hardback US$120.00
Critical Caribbean Studies Reveals the innovative formal practices used to write about historical absences within contemporary personal narratives. Rutgers University Press
EXEMPLARY VIOLENCE
Rewriting History in Colonial Colombia Alberto Villate-Isaza
Mar 2021 270pp 9781684482610 Paperback US$36.95 9781684482627 Hardback US$120.00
Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory Explores Colombia's violent colonial history by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela), each of which reveals the colonising elite's reliance on a constant threat of violence for sustaining colonial order. Bucknell University Press
FICTIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America Victoria Saramago
Dec 2020 288pp 9780810142596 Paperback US$34.95 9780810142602 Hardback US$99.95
FlashPoints Investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. Northwestern University Press
THE ARTS CONTINUED
CARIBBEAN STUDIES SERIES CHOCOLATE SURREALISM
HARMONY AND NORMALIZATION US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy Timothy P. Storhoff
THE LATIN AMERICAN ECOCULTURAL READER
Edited by Jennifer French & Gisela Heffes Dec 2020 376pp 9780810142640 Hardback US$120.00
Presents a comprehensive anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present. Northwestern University Press
PICTURING CUBA
Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora Edited by Jorge Duany
Mar 2021 320pp, 64 illustrations 9781683402091 Paperback US$35.00
Featuring artwork from the Spanish colonial, republican, and post-revolutionary periods, as well as the contemporary diaspora, these richly illustrated essays trace the creation of Cuban art through shifting political, social, and cultural circumstances. University Press of Florida
Nov 2020 205pp 9781496830777 Paperback US$30.00
Highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
DOUGLA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Adding to the Mix
Sue Ann Barratt & Aleah N. Ranjitsingh Jun 2021 144pp 9781496833693 Paperback US$30.00 9781496833709 Hardback US$99.00
Explores the particular meanings of a ‘Dougla' identity and examines ‘Dougla' maneuverability, both at home and in the diaspora.
Jun 2021 234pp 9781978822429 Paperback US$29.95 9781978822436 Hardback US$120.00
Critical Caribbean Studies Examines literary magazines generated during the 1940s that catapulted Caribbean literature into greater international circulation. Rutgers University Press
Feb 2021 414pp 9781978815728 Paperback US$49.95 9781978815735 Hardback US$120.00
Critical Caribbean Studies Examines the roots, effects and implications of the social upheaval that shook Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Reunion in February and March 2009. Rutgers University Press
ACTS OF REPAIR
Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina Natasha Zaretsky
Dec 2020 242pp, 15 images 9781978807426 Paperback US$34.95 9781978807433 Hardback US$120.00
Jerrilyn McGregory
Aug 2021 304pp, 25 illustrations 9781496834768 Paperback US$30.00 9781496834775 Hardback US$99.00
Demonstrates how the cultural producers in various island locations ritualise Boxing Day as a part of their struggles over identity, class, and gender relations.
SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN
The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Apr 2021 304pp 9780826362278 Hardback US$85.00
Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann
Edited by H. Adlai Murdoch
Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World
Analyses how films and video games from around the world have depicted slave revolt, focusing on the Haitian Revolution.
WRITING THE CARIBBEAN IN MAGAZINE TIME
Neoliberalism Since The French Antillean Uprisings of 2009
ONE GRAND NOISE
Jun 2021 336pp, 29 illustrations 9781496833112 Paperback US$30.00 9781496833105 Hardback US$99.00
Through a multifaceted exploration of the periodical press, contributors to this volume offer new insights into the workings of Brazilian power, culture, and public life. University of New Mexico Press
THE STRUGGLE OF NON-SOVEREIGN CARIBBEAN TERRITORIES
Njoroge M. Njoroge
PRESS, POWER, AND CULTURE IN IMPERIAL BRAZIL
Edited by Hendrik Kraay, Celso Thomas Castilho & Teresa Cribelli
HIGHLIGHT
Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
Nov 2020 210pp 9781496830883 Paperback US$30.00 9781496830876 Hardback US$99.00
Explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the United States during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama, who eased the musical embargo of the island and restored relations with Cuba. University Press of Mississippi
POLITICS & ECONOMICS
SURINAMESE MUSIC IN THE NETHERLANDS AND SURINAME Marcel Weltak Translated by Scott Rollins
Aug 2021 176pp 9781496834881 Paperback US$30.00 9781496816948 Hardback US$99.00
Marcel Weltak's Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname was first published in Dutch in 1990. This edition, in English for the first time, includes a new opening chapter by the author, and updates on the popular music of second- and third-generation musicians of Surinamese descent in the Netherlands. University Press of Mississippi
Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights Argues for the ongoing significance of cultural memory as a response to trauma and injustice, as revealed through testimonies and public protests. Rutgers University Press
ENEMY IN THE BLOOD
Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina Eric D. Carter
Nov 2020 304pp 9780817356927 Paperback US$29.95
Carter traces the evolution of malaria science and policy in Argentina, from the disease's emergence as a social problem in the 1890s to its effective eradication by 1950. The University of Alabama Press
HAITI FIGHTS BACK
The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte Yveline Alexis
Jun 2021 238pp, 12 images 9781978815407 Paperback US$36.95
Critical Caribbean Studies Provides the first US scholarly examination of the politician and Caco leader Charlemagne Peralte, who fought against the US military occupation of Haiti. Rutgers University Press
LULA AND HIS POLITICS OF CUNNING
SOCIAL & CULTURAL STUDIES
CARIBBEAN MIGRATIONS
From Metalworker to President of Brazil John D. French
The Legacies of Colonialism
Dec 2020 520pp, 38 images 9781469655765 Hardback US$29.95
In 2003, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva became the thirty-fifth president of Brazil. John French, one of the foremost historians of Brazil, provides the first critical biography of the leader – whom even his political opponents see as strikingly charismatic, humorous, and endearing. The University of North Carolina Press
NATIVE PEOPLES, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY IN CONTEMPORARY PARAGUAY Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Anke Birkenmaier
Jan 2021 290pp, 26 images 9781978814493 Paperback US$44.95 9781978814509 Hardback US$120.00
Critical Caribbean Studies Examines migration from a long-term perspective, analysing the Caribbean's 'unincorporated subjects' and exploring how, despite often fractured public spheres, Caribbean intellectuals, artists, filmmakers, and writers have been resourceful at showcasing migration as the hallmark of the modern age. Rutgers University Press
DEVIANT AND USEFUL CITIZENS
Edited by Barbara A. Ganson Jun 2021 224pp 9780826362575 Hardback US$75.00
The Cultural Production of the Female Body in EighteenthCentury Peru
Provides new understandings of how Paraguay has become more integrated into the regional economy and societies of Latin America and changed in unexpected ways. University of New Mexico Press
TEODORO MOSCOSO AND PUERTO RICO'S OPERATION BOOTSTRAP A.W. Maldonado
Dec 2020 280pp 9780813068466 Paperback US$28.00
Tells the story of Operation Bootstrap, a programme conceived, promoted, and implemented by Teodoro Moscoso, which succeeded in attracting worldwide capital investment that by the mid-1950s had transformed Puerto Rico from an economic backwater into a bustling industrial society. University Press of Florida
A CONTESTED CARIBBEAN INDIGENEITY
HIGHLIGHTS
Mariselle Melendez Feb 2021 248pp 9780826501394 Paperback US$34.95
Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism Sherina Feliciano-Santos
Jan 2021 256pp 9781978808171 Paperback US$29.95 9781978808188 Hardback US$120.00
Critical Caribbean Studies Drawing on ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, this book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists in Puerto Rico and in the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Rutgers University Press
MORAL MAJORITIES ACROSS THE AMERICAS Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right Benjamin A. Cowan
May 2021 368pp 9781469662077 Paperback US$29.95 9781469662060 Hardback US$95.00
Benjamin Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric religious movement, whose current power and influence make headlines and generate no small amount of shock in Brazil and the United States. The University of North Carolina Press
Explores the conditions of women and perceptions of the female body in the eighteenth century throughout the Viceroyalty of Peru. Vanderbilt University Press
STREETWALKING
LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic Ana-Maurine Lara
Dec 2020 224pp 9781978816497 Paperback US$34.95 9781978816503 Hardback US$120.00
THE BLACK MAN IN BRAZILIAN SOCCER Mario Filho
Apr 2021 336pp 9781469637006 Paperback US$24.95 9781469636979 Hardback US$95.00
Latin America in Translation Mario Filho tells the Brazilian football story as a boundary-busting one of race relations, popular culture, and national identity. The University of North Carolina Press
Critical Caribbean Studies Explores the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic hetero-patriarchal nationstate, namely the Dominican Republic. Rutgers University Press
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