THE INVENTION OF THE FAVELALicia do Prado ValladaresTranslated by Robert N. AndersonJun 2019 272pp, 13 illustrations, 1 map9781469649979 Hardback £98.50 / €107.00Latin America in TranslationFor the first time available in English, Licia do Prado

Valladares's classic anthropological study of Brazil's vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally established - and exotic - representation of poverty.The University of North Carolina Press

JOURNALISM, SATIRE, AND CENSORSHIP IN MEXICOEdited by Paul Gillingham, Michael Lettieri & Benjamin T. Smith2018 384pp9780826360076 Paperback £43.95 / €48.00Since the 2000 elections toppled the PRI, over 150

Mexican journalists have been murdered. In this collection historians, media experts, political scientists, cartoonists, and journalists reconsider censorship, state-press relations, news coverage, and readership to retell the history of Mexico's press.University of New Mexico Press

PHONOGRAPHIC MEMORIESPopular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean NovelNjelle W. HamiltonMay 2019 250pp9780813596594 Paperback £30.95 / €34.009780813596600 Hardback £87.50 / €96.00Critical Caribbean Studies

Provides a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the Caribbean novel, tuning in to each novel's soundtrack while considering the broader listening cultures that sustain collective memory.Rutgers University Press

HIGHLIGHTS

Latin American & Caribbean Studies 2019

LITERATURE, MEDIA AND THE ARTS

ATENCO LIVES!Filmmaking and Popular Struggle in MexicoLivia K. StoneFeb 2019 224pp9780826522245 Paperback £30.95 / €34.009780826522238 Hardback £76.50 / €83.00Performing Latin American and Caribbean Identities

The People's Front in Defense of Land of Atenco (the ‘Frente’) is an emblematic force in contemporary Mexican politics, and documentary filmmaking has long been one aspect of the Frente and its allies' efforts. This book highlights the importance of this aspect of their work.Vanderbilt University Press

THE BOOK IN MOVEMENTAutonomous Politics and the Lettered City UndergroundMagali RabasaApr 2019 232pp, 13 b&w illustrations9780822965879 Paperback £49.50 / €54.00Pitt IlluminationsProvides an ethnography of the underground print book, examining its production and circulation in networks of current social movements in Latin America.University of Pittsburgh Press

BORGES'S POEThe Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish AmericaEmron EsplinMar 2019 256pp9780820355375 Paperback £29.50 / €32.00The New Southern StudiesArgues that Jorge Luis Borges, through a complex literary relationship with Poe's works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe's image throughout Spanish America, from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer.The University of Georgia Press

EARLY PUERTO RICAN CINEMA AND NATION BUILDINGNational Sentiments, Transnational Realities, 1897-1940Naida García-CrespoJun 2019 250pp9781684481170 Paperback £30.95 / €34.009781684481187 Hardback £87.50 / €96.00Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and TheoryAnchored in archival sources, this book argues that Puerto Rico's position as a stateless nation allows for a fresh understanding of national cinema, based on perceptions of productive cultural contributions rather than on state structures.Bucknell University Press

ENCUENTROLatinx Performance for the New American TheaterEdited by Trevor Boffone, Teresa Marrero & Chantal RodriguezMay 2019 240pp, 6 b&w images9780810140141 Paperback £38.50 / €42.009780810140158 Hardback £109.00 / €119.00This anthology has its origins in the Encuentro theatre festival, produced in 2014. Contributors exhibit a range of aesthetic approaches, dramatic structures, and themes, ranging from marriage, racial and gendered violence, and the politics of the US-Mexico border.Northwestern University Press

FAULKNER AND THE BLACK LITERATURES OF THE AMERICASEdited by Jay Watson & James G. Thomas2018 320pp9781496818393 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha SeriesPlaces William Faulkner in dialogue with a hemispheric canon of black writing from the United States and the Caribbean, charting lines of engagement between Faulkner and his black precursors, contemporaries, and successors.University Press of Mississippi

HEALING MEMORIESPuerto Rican Women's Literature in the United StatesElizabeth Garcia2018 168pp9780822965640 Paperback £30.95 / €34.00Latino and Latin American ProfilesOffers an exploration of the ways in which women writers of the Puerto Rican diaspora use their literary works to document the historical experiences of Puerto Rican women. University of Pittsburgh Press

HIGH MASCarnival and the Poetics of Caribbean CultureKevin Adonis Browne2018 256pp, 120 colour photos9781496819383 Hardback £50.95 / €56.00Explores Caribbean identity

through photography, criticism, and personal narrative. Taking an unapologetically subjective Caribbean point of view, the author delves into Mas – a key feature of Trinidad performance – as an emancipatory practice. University Press of Mississippi

IDLE TALK, DEADLY TALKThe Uses of Gossip in Caribbean LiteratureAna Rodríguez Navas2018 320pp9780813941622 Paperback £38.50 / €42.009780813941615 Hardback £82.50 / €89.00New World StudiesStudies gossip as an urgent, utilitarian, and deeply political practice – a means of staging the narrative tension, and waging the narrative battles that mark Caribbean politics and culture.University of Virginia Press

LATIN AMERICAN ADVENTURES IN LITERARY JOURNALISMPablo CalviMar 2019 272pp9780822945659 Hardback £49.50 / €54.00Pitt IlluminationsStudies the inception and development of Latin American

literary journalism, and the emergence of an original Latin American literature. Calvi connects the evolution of literary journalism with the consolidation of Latin America's literary sphere and the professional practice of journalism.University of Pittsburgh Press

LATIN AMERICAN TEXTUALITIESHistory, Materiality, and Digital MediaEdited by Heather J. Allen & Andrew R. Reynolds2018 272pp, 27 b&w illustrations9780816537716 Hardback £71.50 / €77.00Offers a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at textual history, textual artifacts, and digital textualities across Latin America, from the colonial era to the present. The University of Arizona Press

MACHADO DE ASSIS AND NARRATIVE THEORYLanguage, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six NovelsEarl E. FitzJun 2019 254pp9781684481132 Hardback £87.50 / €96.00Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and TheoryArgues that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature's greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form.Bucknell University Press

THE MUSIC OF THE NETHERLANDS ANTILLESWhy Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's HeartJan Brokken2018 220pp9781496820112 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00Caribbean Studies SeriesAnyone hoping to discover an overlooked chapter of Caribbean music and music history will be amply rewarded with this Dutch-Caribbean perspective on the pan-Caribbean process of creolization.University Press of Mississippi

HISTORY

A PERSISTENT REVOLUTIONHistory, Nationalism and Politics in Mexico Since 1968Randal Sheppard2018 392pp9780826358370 Paperback £43.95 / €48.00Explores Mexico's profound political changes through the lens

of the persistent political power of Mexican revolutionary nationalism, showing how historical myths emerged during historical-commemoration ceremonies, in popular social and anti-neoliberal protest movements, and in debates.University of New Mexico Press

PRIETOYorůbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of RevolutionsHenry B. Lovejoy2018 240pp, 6 illustrations, 8 maps9781469645391 Paperback £35.95 / €39.009781469645384 Hardback £98.50 / €107.00

Envisioning CubaSituates the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto, a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, within the context of colonial Cuba to illuminate the vast process by which thousands of Yoruba speakers were forced into life-and-death struggles in a strange land.The University of North Carolina Press

PORT OF SPAINThe Construction of a Caribbean City, 1888–1962Stephen Stuempfle2018 484pp9789766406639 Paperback £87.50 / €95.00Explores the transformation of the landscape of Port of Spain, from the cocoa boom era at the turn of the twentieth century through to Trinidad and Tobago's independence from Britain in 1962.The University of the West Indies Press

THE PORTUGUESE OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGOPortrait of an Ethnic MinorityJo-Anne S. Ferreira2018 168pp9789766406608 Paperback £32.95 / €36.00Uncovers the story of the Madeirans in Trinidad and Tobago

and Luso-Trinidadians and Tobagonians, exploring how Portuguese settlers came to the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, and significantly contributed to their adopted homeland.The University of the West Indies Press

REVOLUTIONARY MASCULINITY AND RACIAL INEQUALITYGendering War and Politics in CubaBonnie A. Lucero2018 344pp9780826360090 Hardback £71.50 / €77.00One of the most paradoxical aspects of Cuban history is the coexistence of national myths of racial harmony with lived experiences of racial inequality. This book examines the ways soldiers and politicians coded discussions of race in ideas of masculinity, during Cuba's transition from colony to republic.University of New Mexico Press

THE SAINTS OF PROGRESSA History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National IdentityCarmen KordickJan 2019 312pp, 26 b&w figures, 3 maps9780817320027 Hardback £54.95 / €60.00A reshaping of traditional

understandings of Costa Rica and its national identity, chronicling the development of the Tarrazú Valley, a historically remote coffee-growing region, from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twenty-first century.The University of Alabama Press

PAINTING IN A STATE OF EXCEPTIONNew Figuration in Argentina, 1960-1965Patrick Frank2018 256pp, 43 colour photos, 23 b&w photos9780813062495 Paperback £43.95 / €48.00‘Nueva Figuracion’ has long been overlooked in studies of modern

art. In this first comprehensive examination of the movement, Patrick Frank explores the work of four artists at its heart, to demonstrate the importance of their work in the transnational development of modern art.University Press of Florida

REGGAE STORIESJamaican Musical Legends and Cultural LegaciesEdited by Donna P. Hope2018 140pp9789766406691 Paperback £49.50 / €54.00Provides a range of perspectives on the development of Jamaican popular music and culture, and opens the door to new debates on these music forms and their producers and creators.The University of the West Indies Press

LITERATURE, MEDIA AND THE ARTS CONTINUED

CONCRETE AND COUNTRYSIDEThe Urban and the Rural in 1950s Puerto Rican CultureCarmelo Esterrich2018 184pp, 6 b&w illustrations9780822965398 Paperback £30.95 / €34.00Pitt IlluminationsFrom the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept

by a wave of modernisation, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society to an unquestionably urban one. Concrete and Countryside offers an in-depth analysis of how Puerto Ricans responded to this transformative period.University of Pittsburgh Press

LAND, LIBERTY, AND WATERMorelos After Zapata, 1920-1940Salvador Salinas2018 272pp, 10 b&w photos, 1 map9780816537204 Hardback £60.50 / €66.00Latin American LandscapesOffers a political and environmental history of the aftermath of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, by examining the insurgency in the state of Morelos.The University of Arizona Press

MÉXICO BEYOND 1968Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive SeventiesEdited by Jaime M. Pensado & Enrique C. Ochoa2018 360pp9780816538423 Paperback £29.50 / €34.00

Examines the revolutionary organizing and state repression that characterised Mexico during the 1960s and 1970s, and challenges the centrality of the massacre of students in Mexico City in October 1968 by looking at the broader story of struggle and repression across Mexico during this time.The University of Arizona Press

LONG ROAD FROM QUITOTransforming Health Care in Rural Latin AmericaTony HissMar 2019 176pp9780268105334 Hardback £30.95 / €34.00Presents a fascinating portrait of David Gaus, the co-founder of Andean Health and Development

(AHD), an organisation dedicated to supporting health initiatives in South America.University of Notre Dame Press

MY POLITICAL JOURNEYJamaica's Sixth Prime MinisterP.J. Patterson2018 478pp9789766407018 Hardback £82.50 / €89.00Presents former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson's account of his time as an active and

successful participant in the political and social development of Jamaica and the Caribbean, from the mid-1950s well into the early 2000s.The University of the West Indies Press

THE WAR HAS BROUGHT PEACE TO MEXICOWorld War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary StateHalbert JonesFeb 2019 312pp9780826351319 Paperback £38.50 / €42.00Although the battlefields

of World War II lay thousands of miles from Mexico, the conflict had an influence on the country's political development. Though the war years in Mexico have attracted less attention than other periods, this book shows how the crisis of the early 1940s played a part in the consolidation of the post-revolutionary regime.University of New Mexico Press

TIDES OF REVOLUTIONInformation, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in VenezuelaCristina Soriano2018 336pp9780826359865 Paperback £38.50 / €42.009780826359858 Hardback £103.00 / €113.00Diálogos SeriesExplores the links between politics and literacy, how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses, and how Venezuela became one of the first regions in Spanish America to declare independence from Iberia.University of New Mexico Press

TORN BETWEEN EMPIRESEconomy, Society, and Patterns of Political Thought in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1840-1878Luis Martinez-Fernandez2018 344pp9780820355863 Hardback £101.00 / €110.00Focuses on the economy, society, and political culture of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, and points out underlying balance-of-power transformations.The University of Georgia Press

POLITICS, ECONOMICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

BRAZIL'S LONG REVOLUTIONRadical Achievements of the Landless Workers MovementAnthony Pahnke2018 296pp, 24 b&w illustrations9780816536030 Hardback £71.50 / €77.00Economic crises in the Global North and South are forcing activists

to think about alternatives, and neoliberal economic policies and austerity measures have been debated around the globe. Anthony Pahnke argues that activists should look Brazil for inspiration.The University of Arizona Press

CAMPAIGNS AND VOTERS IN DEVELOPING DEMOCRACIESArgentina in Comparative PerspectiveEdited by Noam Lupu, Virginia Oliveros & Luis SchiumeriniMar 2019 320pp, 37 charts, 14 tables9780472131280 Hardback £69.95 / €77.00Voting behaviour is informed by the experience of advanced democracies, yet the electoral context in developing democracies is significantly different. This book develops a theoretical framework to specify why voter behaviour differs across contexts.University of Michigan Press

CRISIS CULTURESThe Rise of Finance in Mexico and BrazilBrian WhitenerMar 2019 232pp9780822965862 Paperback £49.50 / €54.00Pitt IlluminationsChallenges current cultural histories of the neo-liberal period by arguing that financialisation,

and not just neoliberalism, has been at the centre of the dramatic transformations of Latin American societies in the last thirty years.University of Pittsburgh Press

FROM REVOLUTION TO POWER IN BRAZILHow Radical Leftists Embraced Capitalism and Struggled with LeadershipKenneth P. SerbinJun 2019 460pp9780268105853 Hardback £65.95 / €72.00Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development

Based on two decades of research and more than three hundred hours of interviews with former members of the revolutionary organisation National Liberating Action, Serbin's is the first book to bring the story of Brazil's long night of dictatorship into the present.University of Notre Dame Press

HAYA DE LA TORRE AND THE PURSUIT OF POWER IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY PERU AND LATIN AMERICAIñigo García-Bryce2018 280pp, 10 illustrations9781469636573 Paperback £32.95 / €36.009781469636559 Hardback £98.50 / €107.00Peruvian Victor Raul Haya de la Torre (1895-1979) was one of Latin America's key revolutionary leaders. This biography chronicles his political odyssey as founder of the influential American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, as a political theorist whose philosophy shifted from Marxism to democracy, and as a seasoned opposition figure.The University of North Carolina Press

NEW WORLD CITIESChallenges of Urbanization and Globalization in the AmericasEdited by John Tutino & Martin V. MelosiApr 2019 336pp9781469648750 Paperback £38.50 / €42.009781469648743 Hardback £98.50 / €107.00

By exploring the rise of six cities across five nations, New World Cities investigates the complexities of power and prosperity, difficulty and desperation, while reckoning with the social, cultural, and ethnic dynamics that mark all metropolitan areas.The University of North Carolina Press

THE RESTLESS ILAN STAVANSInsider on the OutsideSteven G. KellmanApr 2019 128pp9780822965855 Paperback £40.50 / €44.00Latino and Latin American ProfilesThe first book-length study of one of the most prominent and prolific Latino academics, Ilan Stavans. The book examines his unlikely rise to prominence, within the context of the spread of multiculturalism as a seminal principle within American culture.University of Pittsburgh Press

STRATEGIC OCCIDENTALISMOn Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World LiteratureIgnacio M. Sanchez Prado2018 272pp9780810137554 Paperback £38.50 / €42.009780810137561 Hardback £109.00 / €119.00Examines the transformation of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time, a framework emerged, characterised by the corporatisation of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture.Northwestern University Press

A NICARAGUAN EXCEPTIONALISM? Debating the Legacy of the Sandinista RevolutionEdited by Hilary Francis2018 250pp9781908857576 Paperback £25.00 / €28.00The present Nicaraguan government has promulgated a discourse of exceptionalism, arguing that Nicaragua is unique thanks to heritage of the 1979 Sandinista revolution. This volume interrogates that claim, asking whether the legacy of the revolution is truly exceptional.Institute of Latin American StudiesBrookings Institution Press

THE PRISM OF RACEThe Politics and Ideology of Affirmative Action in BrazilDavid Lehmann2018 272pp9780472130849 Hardback £65.95 / €73.00Explores issues of race, the state, social movements, and civil society, and asks whether Brazilian politics

will forever circumvent the severe problems facing the society by co-optation and by tinkering with unjust structures.University of Michigan Press

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RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY

THE CULTURAL WORLDS OF THE JESUITS IN COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAEdited by Linda NewsonJun 2019 200pp9781908857620 Paperback £26.50 / €29.00Demonstrates the diversity of Jesuit contributions to Latin American culture, and includes papers from scholars of history, linguistics, art, architecture, and science.Institute of Latin American StudiesBrookings Institution Press

CITIZENS AND BELIEVERSReligion and Politics in Revolutionary Jalisco, 1900–1930Robert Curley2018 384pp9780826355379 Hardback £71.50 / €77.00Shows the centrality of religion to the making of the 1910 Mexican revolution, focusing on Catholics as political subjects, whose religious identity became a fundamental aspect of citizenship during the twentieth century.University of New Mexico Press

GUATEMALA'S CATHOLIC REVOLUTIONA History of Religious and Social Reform, 1920-1968Bonar L. Hernández Sandoval2018 280pp, 6 illustrations9780268104412 Hardback £54.95 / €60.00Offers an account of the resurgence of Guatemalan Catholicism during the twentieth century, and analyses popular visions of the Church and the connection between religious and socioeconomic change.University of Notre Dame Press

IMPURE MIGRATIONJews and Sex Work in Golden Age ArgentinaMir YarfitzMar 2019 208pp, 14 illustrations9780813598154 Hardback £52.50 / €58.00Jewish Cultures of the WorldInvestigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was legal in Argentina. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries.Rutgers University Press

THE RISE OF CHARISMATIC CATHOLICISM IN LATIN AMERICAEdward L. Cleary2018 324pp9780813064765 Paperback £29.50 / €32.00 Much has been made of the dramatic rise of Protestantism in Latin

America, but overlooked by journalists and scholars has been the parallel growth of Charismatic, or Pentecostal, Catholicism in the region. University Press of Florida

SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES

AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE RED HOUSE, PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGOEdited by Basil A. Reid2018 272pp9789766406721 Paperback £54.95 / €60.00The Red House has been the seat of Trinidad and Tobago's parliament for over one hundred years. This work showcases a diverse collection of artifacts, and examines the role of the site's precolonial inhabitants as dynamic, self-reflexive history makers.The University of the West Indies Press

CULTURES OF ANTI-RACISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEANEdited by Peter Wade, James Scorer & Ignacio Aguiló2018 250pp9781908857552 Paperback £25.00 / €28.00

Places Latin American and Caribbean racial formations within a broader global context, and sets out the premise that the region provides valuable opportunities for thinking about anti-racism.Institute of Latin American StudiesBrookings Institution Press

CYNICAL CITIZENSHIPGender, Regionalism, and Political Subjectivity in Porto Alegre, BrazilBenjamin Junge2018 288pp9780826359445 Hardback £71.50 / €77.00Studies grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil's

leftist hotspot during the early 2000s, when the Workers' Party was in power. The author explores the ways community leaders make sense of official notions of citizenship and how gender, politics, and regional identities shape these interpretations.University of New Mexico Press

IMPROVISED CITIESArchitecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in PeruHelen Gyger2018 432pp, 124 illustrations9780822945369 Hardback £60.50 / €66.00Culture Politics & the Built EnvironmentExamines the history of aided self-help housing in Peru, from 1954 to 1986. While the postwar period saw a number of trial projects in aided self-help housing throughout the developing world, Peru was the site of significant experiments in this field.University of Pittsburgh Press

MAPPING DIASPORAAfrican American Roots Tourism in BrazilPatricia de Santana Pinho2018 272pp, 4 illustrations9781469645322 Paperback £32.95 / €36.009781469645315 Hardback £98.50 / €107.00Drawing on ethnographic research and textual, visual, and archival sources, investigates African American roots tourism, a complex kind of travel that provides profound meaning for those searching for black identity and heritage.The University of North Carolina Press

MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, AND DISTRESS IN NORTHEAST BRAZILBlack Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and KinshipMelanie A. Medeiros2018 222pp9780813588230 Paperback £30.95 / €34.00Examines rural, working-class, black Brazilian women's perceptions and experiences of courtship, marriage and divorce, and explores the women's rich stories of desire, love, respect, suffering, strength, and transformation.Rutgers University Press

PARCELSMemories of Salvadoran MigrationMike AnastarioMay 2019 200pp, 12 b&w illustrations9780813595221 Paperback £24.50 / €27.009780813595238 Hardback £87.50 / €96.00Latinidad: Transnational CulturesIn light of new proposals to control undocumented migrants in the United States, Parcels prioritises rural Salvadoran remembering, in an effort to combat the collective amnesia that supports the logic of these historically myopic strategies.Rutgers University Press

RACIAL EXPERIMENTS IN CUBAN LITERATURE AND ETHNOGRAPHYEmily A. Maguire2018 248pp9780813064802 Paperback £27.50 / €30.00Examines how a cadre of writers reimagined Cuba and re-valourised Afro-Cuban culture through a textual production that incorporated elements of the ethnographic with the literary. Singling out the work of Lydia Cabrera, Maguire constructs a series of counterpoints that place Cabrera's work in dialogue with that of her Cuban contemporaries.University Press of Florida

REVIVALISMRepresenting an Afro-Jamaican IdentityMaria A. Robinson-SmithFeb 2019 220pp9789766406547 Paperback £43.95 / €48.00Presents an overview and genealogy of Revivalism, explores the role of the Revival iconography in building a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists, and argues that the iconography makes it possible for Revivalists to interpret events and rituals in much the same way across Jamaica.The University of the West Indies Press