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Demigods on Speedway
The University of Arizona Press
Demigods on Speedway is dramatic and poetic, a work of linked stories that together paint a gritty portrait of the Southwest. Well-drawn characters, sprung from Greek mythology into the realities of modern life, face the dilemma of struggling to survive under siege while passionately seeking to make something immortal in their lives.
Thinking en español
Interviews with Critics of Chicana/o Literature
By Jesús Rosales; Foreword by Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
The University of Arizona Press
Thinking en español takes the important literary figures who shaped our knowledge of Chicano authors and places them in the dynamic arc of Chicana/o criticism and literature. Jesús Rosales interviews foundational Chicana/o literary critics and, through conversations, establishes the path of Chicana/o criticism from 1848 to the present.
Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother
Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas
The University of Arizona Press
Weaving archival records, ancient maps and narratives, and the wisdom of the elders, Roberto Cintli Rodriguez offers compelling evidence that maíz is the historical connector between Indigenous peoples of this continent. Rodriguez brings together the wisdom of scholars and elders to show how maíz/corn connects the peoples of the Americas.
Dragons in the Land of the Condor
Writing Tusán in Peru
By Ignacio López-Calvo; Foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez
The University of Arizona Press
Dragons in the Land of the Condor studies the influence of a Chinese ethnic background in the writing of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sino-Peruvian authors. Ignacio López-Calvo considers the different strategies used by Chinese Peruvian writers to claim either their belonging in the Peruvian national project or their difference as a minority ethnic group.
Buried in Shades of Night
Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip's War
The University of Arizona Press
Billy J. Stratton’s critical examination of Mary Rowlandson’s 1682 publication, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, reconsiders the role of the captivity narrative in American literary history and national identity. With pivotal new research into Puritan minister Increase Mather’s influence on the narrative, Stratton calls for a reconsideration of past scholarly work on the genre.
Creating Aztlán
Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island
The University of Arizona Press
Creating Aztlán interrogates the historic and important role that Aztlán plays in Chicano and Indigenous art and culture. Using the idea that lowriding is an Indigenous way of being in the world, artist and historian Dylan A. T. Miner (Métis) discusses the multiple roles that Aztlán has played at various moments in time, engaging precolonial indigeneities, alongside colonial, modern, and contemporary Xicano responses to colonization.
Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico
Literary and Cultural Inquiries
Edited by Oswaldo Estrada and Anna M. Nogar
The University of Arizona Press
Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico analyzes how Mexico’s colonial experience has been reimagined in the twenty-first century. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the fourteen essays gathered in this book question the problematic formation of contemporary marginalities and inequality, imposed political domination, and hybrid subjectivities.
Therapeutic Nations
Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights
By Dian Million
The University of Arizona Press
Therapeutic Nations is one of the first books to demonstrate trauma's wide-ranging historical origins, and it offers a new indigenous feminist critique of the conversation of healing. Million's theoretical sophistication and original research make the book relevant across a range of disciplines as it challenges key concepts of American Indian and indigenous studies.
Soul Over Lightning
By Ray Gonzalez
The University of Arizona Press
In this collection, which the poet calls his “rebirth in the search for home,” Ray Gonzalez expresses the gentle, humble intelligence that has made him a leading voice in Latino letters. He shares with the reader the voice of a grounded soul searcher who has passed through middle age and still vibrates with passion for the world. Soul Over Lightning lifts spirits and yet offers a timeless search for home and truth.
In the Garden of the Bridehouse
The University of Arizona Press
Scrutinizing myth, culture, identity, and sexuality, J. Michael Martinez, in his brave new collection, weds the innovative with the narrative tradition, cultivating a collection that is unlike any other, simultaneously drawing together and pulling apart the familiar and the foreign, the self and the other, the known and the unknowable, the recoverable and irrecoverable past, the historical record and all that is given up for lost. Martinez interrogates the restrictions chosen to constrain imagination’s boundlessness.
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