This series of research seminars, organized in Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil, focused on Latin American and United States Latino art from 1960 to 1990. It challenges the dominant narrative of modernism that places Latin ...

Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region's past and present in an accessible and engaging style well-suited to undergraduate students. The ...

This book explores the relationship between twentieth-century Latin American narrative fiction and the photographic medium. It probes the ways in which literature registers photography’s powers and limitations, and how ...

Currently, Latin American cities are seeing simultaneous processes of reinvestment and redevelopment in their historic central areas. These are not just mega-scale interventions like Porto Maravilha in Rio or Puerto Madero ...

For more than three decades Marilene Weinhardt has been dedicating her studies to the hazy relationship between historical and fictional discourse, trying to draw a map of the boundaries between literature and history. In ...

This chapter aims to explore the manifestations and relevance of hidden resilience within the lives of Latin American adolescents involved in drug trafficking. Initially, we discuss the need to build a theoretical-methodological ...

Alejo Carpentier is a writer who handles a huge volume of intellectual and cultural nature, due to his exquisite competence in subjects as different as music, architecture, history, philosophy, anthropology, art and ...