Latin American & Caribbean Studies 2022 HIGHLIGHTS CREOLIZED SEXUALITIES
SONOROUS WORLDS
TRANSFORMING SAINTS
Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean Alison Donnell
Musical Enchantment in Venezuela Yana Stainova
From Spain to New Spain Charlene Villaseñor Black
Critical Caribbean Studies Draws attention to a wide, and surprising, range of writings that craft inclusive and pluralising representations of sexual possibilities within the Caribbean imagination.
2021 206pp 9781978818118 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00 9781978818125 Hardback £97.50 / €113.00
Rutgers University Press
Music and Social Justice An ethnography of the young Venezuelan musicians who participate in the El Sistema music education programme, many of whom live in urban barrios and face everyday gang violence, state repression, social exclusion, and forced migration in response to sociopolitical crisis.
2021 264pp 9780472132737 Hardback £61.50 / €71.00
Explores the transformation and function of the images of holy females within wider religious, social, and political contexts of Old Spain and New Spain, from the Spanish conquest to Mexican independence.
Jul 2022 376pp 9780826504708 Paperback £39.95 / €47.00 9780826504715 Hardback £96.95 / €113.00
Vanderbilt University Press
University of Michigan Press
ARTS, LITERATURE & MEDIA THE BEATS IN MEXICO
CREATING WORLDS OTHERWISE
EROTIC CARTOGRAPHIES
Exploring why the Beats were so fascinated by Mexico and how they represented its culture in their work, this volume examines such canonical figures as Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Ferlinghetti.
Paula Serafini
Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan
Performing Latin American and Caribbean Identities
Critical Caribbean Studies
Offers the narratives that subaltern groups generate around extractivism in Latin America, and shows how they develop, communicate, and mobilise these narratives through art and cultural practices.
Examines how Trinidadian same-sex-loving women use their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices to reinforce and resist colonial ascriptions.
Apr 2022 290pp 9781978828728 Hardback £24.50 / €28.00
Jun 2022 254pp 9780826504555 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 9780826504562 Hardback £81.50 / €94.00
Rutgers University Press
Vanderbilt University Press
David Stephen Calonne
BUYERS BEWARE Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture Patricia Joan Saunders Critical Caribbean Studies
Offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture.
May 2022 240pp 9780813571225 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00 9780813571232 Hardback £97.50 / €113.00
Rutgers University Press
Art, Collective Action, and (Post) Extractivism
ERNA BRODBER AND VELMA POLLARD Folklore and Culture in Jamaica Violet Harrington Bryan Caribbean Studies Series
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard recreate imagined and lived homelands in their literature by commemorating the history, culture, and religion of the Caribbean. Drawing on interviews with the authors, this is the first book to give Brodber and Pollard their due. 2021 144pp 9781496836212 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 9781496836205 Hardback £93.50 / €107.00
University Press of Mississippi
Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination
Jan 2022 276pp 9781978821361 Paperback £32.50 / €38.00 9781978821378 Hardback £105.00 / €122.00
Rutgers University Press
FICTIONS OF WHITENESS
Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel Maeve McCusker New World Studies
Explores the literary construction of whiteness in the francophone Caribbean, and examines the neglected beke figure in the longer history of Antillean literature and culture. 2021 272pp 9780813946788 Paperback £29.95 / €36.00 9780813946771 Hardback £76.95 / €89.00
University of Virginia Press