Dominican American author and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz has gained international fame for his blended, cross-cultural fiction.Reading Junot Diaz is the first study to focus on his complete body
The Brazilian television industry is one of the most productive and commercially successful in the world. At the forefront of this industry is TV Globo and its production of standardized telenovelas,
The Once and Future Muse presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary celebrit
This volume reassesses the field of Chicana/o literary studies in light of the rise of Latina/o studies, the recovery of a large body of early literature by Mexican Americans, and the “transnational t
Children’s and young adult literature has become an essential medium for identity formation in contemporary Latino/a culture in the United States. This book is an original collection of more tha
This book focuses on the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Mexican-American brothers whose graphic novels are highly influential. Their brother Mario is an occasional collaborator. The Hernandez br
Foster profiles the work of 10 Mexican American photographers who work at the intersection of ethnicity and representation. These photographers present artistic and documentary visual images of the so
