The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature (Routledge Concise Histories of Literature)

Frederick Luis Aldama

Routledge

What is Cultural Studies!? Oh, we know all about Stuart Hall and his landmark work and we are hip to the tune of Marshall Blonsky, Marshall McLuhan, Susan Sontag, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and John Berger. But what will Cultural Studies look like AFTER AI, AFTER COVID, AFTER the next new wave of next-generation developments in computer science. One might think: "The algorithms will write future essays." But that means tenure for algorithms? Surely not! In this collection you will find essays on Disney, video games, fashion photography, and more-the traditional fodder of cultural studies; but you will also find deep meditations on memes, Instagram, social media, the border, Mexico, and more-not always the domain of Cultural Studies as an institution (hence the caps). Sit back and get ready to read some of the more provocative musings on both sides of the Atlantic by up-and-coming stars of Ethnic Studies, Literature, Linguistics, and more.Contributors include: Frederick Luis Aldama -- Brian Frastaci -- Federico Tarquini -- Antonio Rafele -- Tito Vagni -- Gwendolyn Spring Kurtz -- Kristal Bivona -- Luca Acquarelli -- William Anthony Nericcio -- Katie Waltman -- Massimo Cerulo -- Lorenzo Bruni -- Alberto Abruzzese - Jennifer Carter -- Ralph Clare -- Nello Barile -- Katlin Marisol Sweeney -- Bonnie Opliger -- Matteo Treleani -- Vanni Codeluppi -- Guerino Bovalino -- Agnese Pastorino -- Carlos Kelly -- and Antonio Rafele.Published by Hyperbole Books, A San Diego State University Press Imprint.

Cultural Studies in the Digital Age: An Anthology of 21st Century Interdisciplinary Inquiries, Postulations, and Findings

Antonio Rafele

William Anthony Nericcio

Hyperbole Books, an Imprint of San Diego State University Press

The seventeen essays and interviews collected in Critical Mappings of Arturo Islas’s Fictions aim to enliven and enrich our understanding of one of our most important authors of contemporary Chicano/a letters. The late Arturo Islas wrote three novels including The Rain God and Migrant Souls, as well as many short stories. For much of his career, his work was rejected by the worlds of both mainstream and Chicano literature because of its experimental style and themes that focus on Chicanos learning to negotiate borders between nations, races, genders—and sexualities. This combination of early and recent essays explores his work, addressing issues of technique, publishing in a prejudiced marketplace, and borderland racial and sexual identity. The essays map Islas’s oeuvre to clear a space for the expression of a complex Chicano identity within a contemporary American canon. A number of scholars have contributed, including Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, José David Saldívar, Rosaura Sánchez, and Renato Rosaldo, in addition to Aldama.

Critical Mappings of Arturo Islas's Fictions

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Bilingual Review Pr

{{{ REGULAR TRADE PAPERBACK EDITION ISBN-13: 978-1-938537-91-2 }}} Do you dig humor, comedy, critical theory, literary criticism, philosophy, television, and mass media studies all wrapped up together? Then LAUGHING MATTERS by Latino scholar/writers/artists ILAN STAVANS and FREDERICK ALDAMA is the book for you. Hyperbole Books first volume in the "Chatting Professors/ Catedráticos Charlando" mini-series, LAUGHING MATTERS finds two comedic scholars talking seriously about the ludicrous. Or are they speaking ludicrously about the serious? And does it matter which is which? --&gt;Advance LAUGHING MATTERS raves: "Two academics go into a bar. . . and create one of the most compelling works on laughter since Bergson. In this kinetic tête-à-tête, Aldama and Stavans' conversation weaves effortlessly from the great thinkers on laughter to today's neurobiological insights to offer witty, wide-ranging, and incisive insights into our planet's great creations," says Peter McGraw, director of The Humor Research Lab (HuRL) --&gt; "Our authors scour the world of humor from stand-up Jewish comedians to classic writers such as Cervantes and Rabelais to those, like Freud and Bergson, who have sought to account for why we laugh. The conversational format of this book allows its authors a freedom to range that would be impossible in a more conventional mode of discourse, " states Herbert Lindenberger, Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities Emeritus, Stanford --&gt; "A delightful and intellectually engaging conversation, Laughing Matters explores the nature of laughter and humor, questioning and expounding on Western European and Latin American literary works that build humor into their pages. In a decidedly erudite manner they take us on a journey through philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Bergson as well as literary geniuses such as Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Borges," affirms María Herrera-Sobek, Professor of Chicana/o Studies, UCSB

Laughing Matters: Conversations on Humor (Regular Trade Paperback Edition)

Ilan Stavans

Hyperbole Books, an SDSU Press Imprint

Amatl Comix #2 Prolific prof Frederick Luis Aldama's latest full-color opus Latinx Comic Book Storytelling: An Odyssey by Interview features over 100 full-color comic illustrations and captures, via delicious interviews, the next wave in the history of sequential art, with Latinx cartoonist superheroes remaking the space of comics, comix, &amp; graphic narrative, and, simultaneously, changing the pace/face (faster, browner) of art history in the process!
Advance critical raves! The US comic's scene is evolving-along with the rest of the culture-slowly, sometimes painfully, but inexorably towards a greater diversity of readers &amp; creators, of new styles &amp; stories. This book gives us a series of intimate conversations with several generations of Latin@ cartoonists (diverse themselves in their backgrounds and interests) juggling craft and art with heritage and language. These pioneers have their noses to their drawing boards and tablets but they keep their eyes on the larger significance of their work. -Matt Madden, author of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style In this timely and transformative collection of interviews, Aldama brings to life the stories, achievements, and creative process of 29 Latino-and Latina!-comic book artists. Jettisoned to new heights of exploration, this vertiginous journey opens us to a world of breathtaking visual-verbal creativity and the embrace of a resplendently diverse and eager community of readers. -Jan Baetens, University of Leuven, co-author recently of The Graphic Novel: An Introduction Aldama stretches open a new space of critical thinking about Latinidad and comics in the 21st century. As a living lightning rod, Aldama captures then spins out anew psionic thunderbolts of intellectual and creative insight offered by today's Latino comic book storytellers. -Ana Merino, The University of Iowa and author of Chris Ware: La secuencia circular and El cómic hispánico

Latinx Comic Book Storytelling

Hyperbole Books / Amatl Comix

Do you dig humor, comedy, critical theory, literary criticism, philosophy, television, and mass media studies all wrapped up together? Then LAUGHING MATTERS by Latino scholar/writers/artists ILAN STAVANS and FREDERICK ALDAMA is the book for you. Hyperbole Books first volume in the "Chatting Professors/ Catedráticos Charlando" mini-series, LAUGHING MATTERS finds two comedic scholars talking seriously about the ludicrous. Or are they speaking ludicrously about the serious? And does it matter which is which? --&gt;Advance LAUGHING MATTERS raves: "Two academics go into a bar. . . and create one of the most compelling works on laughter since Bergson. In this kinetic tête-à-tête, Aldama and Stavans' conversation weaves effortlessly from the great thinkers on laughter to today's neurobiological insights to offer witty, wide-ranging, and incisive insights into our planet's great creations," says Peter McGraw, director of The Humor Research Lab (HuRL) --&gt; "Our authors scour the world of humor from stand-up Jewish comedians to classic writers such as Cervantes and Rabelais to those, like Freud and Bergson, who have sought to account for why we laugh. The conversational format of this book allows its authors a freedom to range that would be impossible in a more conventional mode of discourse, " states Herbert Lindenberger, Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities Emeritus, Stanford --&gt; "A delightful and intellectually engaging conversation, Laughing Matters explores the nature of laughter and humor, questioning and expounding on Western European and Latin American literary works that build humor into their pages. In a decidedly erudite manner they take us on a journey through philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Bergson as well as literary geniuses such as Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Borges," affirms María Herrera-Sobek, Professor of Chicana/o Studies, UCSB {SPECIAL LIMITED-EDITION PAPERBACK EDITION ISBN-13: 978-1-938537-97-4}

Laughing Matters: Conversations on Humor (Special Limited-Edition Paperback)

Hyperbole Books, an imprint of SDSU Press

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