Although investigations of Hispanic popular culture were approached for decades as part of folklore studies, in recent years scholarly explorations—of lucha libre, telenovelas, comic strips, comedy, baseball, the novela rosa and the detective novel, sci-fi, even advertising—have multiplied. What has been lacking is an overarching canvas [...]
I collect in one volume the unpublished works of acclaimed of the late novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer, and professor, Arturo Islas (1938-1991). Well known for his two insightful novels, The Rain God and Migrant Souls, his untimely death to AIDS truncated a productive and influential career that has left an unbridgeable [...]
Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study. The essays herein move us forward, some in their re-diggings into comics history and others by analyzing comics—and all its transmedial and fan-fictional offshoots—on its own [...]
I focus Formal Matters in Contemporary Latino Poetry on the incredibly vibrant contemporary poetic works of Rafael Campo, C. Dale Young, Julia Alvarez, and Rhina P. Espaillat. In these poets we frequently encounter poems that tell stories.The poems spin good yarns, but the poets work hard [...]
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Magical realism has become almost synonymous with Latin American fiction, but this way of representing the layered and often contradictory reality of the topsy-turvy, late-capitalist, globalizing world finds equally vivid expression in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. Writers and filmmakers such as Oscar [...]
Since the 1980s, a prolific “second wave” of Chicano/a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicano/a literature and art. Building on the pioneering work of their predecessors, whose artistic creations were often tied to political activism and the [...]
The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections between gender, sexuality and the creation, consumption and interpretation of popular culture in the Américas. Chapters seek to enrich our understanding of the role of pop culture in the everyday lives of its creators and [...]
The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature presents the first comprehensive overview of these popular, experimental and diverse literary cultures. Frederick Luis Aldama traces a historical path through Latino/a literature, examining both the historical and political contexts of the works, as well as their authors and the [...]