México, D.F: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. iii, 389p., photos, facsimiles, bibl., wrps. Contains essays on feminist critique of the arts, artistic creation, and aesthetics of which present topics such as the authorship of women, the form and representation; innovations in iconography; language..... More about Imaginarios y representaciones estéticas de género en las artes
México, D.F: Aguilar, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. v, 331p., tables, wrps. A thorough investigation that exhibits the indolence and indifference of governors, ministerial agents, municipal presidents, and police before mothers in search of their children. The work also highlights the denunciations for the disappearance of students, workers, or activists. More about Guerracruz: Rinconcito donde hacen su nido las hordas del mal
Quito: Ediciones Abya Yala, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. v, 355p., maps, tables, wrps. The central thesis revolves around political economy, cultural ecology, and environmental history in Esmeraldas. The authors maintain that in this area of Ecuador and the biogeographic Choco, natural resources have been subjected to intensive long-term exploitation, where..... More about Extractivismo, (neo) colonialismo y crimen organizado en el norte de Esmeraldas
Granada: La Mirada Malva, (Mirada Narrativa, 25; Serie Santré), 2019. First Edition. Paperback. iv, 214p., wrps. A university professor turned private detective investigates a murder at a chinese restaurant in an iconic neighborhood; an urban adventure in which detective Santré not only unmasks the perpetrators but also exploses clandestine faces..... More about Detective Santré: el caso Chang
Barcelona: Planeta, (Autores españoles iberoamericanos), 2019. 1st Edition. Hardcover. v, 351p., wrps. From the depths of his memory, a man who drags years of the past as illusions of the future, illuminates through his memories, his history; that of his generation, and that of a country. Halfway between confession and..... More about Alegría
México, D.F: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. iii, 187p., tables, bibl., wrps. Gives voice and space to the presence of women in the differentiated and complex areas of national public and political life. The concern to attend the issues that are included here is born from..... More about Perspectivas sobre las mujeres en México: Historia, administración pública y participación...
México, D.F: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. iii, 119p., photos, bibli., wrps. In the following texts, the author questions violence that plays an integral part of our relationships but is hardly identified as such. The presence of violence in the stories and novels discussed is never explicit, it only..... More about Violencia, imagen y literatura
México, D.F: CIESAS, (Publicaciones de la Casa Chata), 2019. First Edition. Paperback. iii, 350p., maps, tables, bibl., wrps. Pertains to the millenary history of maritime-commercial traffic that occurred in the Mayan-Yucatecan civilization and extended with greater dynamism from the arrival of the Spanish colonial order in the process of conformation..... More about Trasiegos marítimos y costaneros desde Yucatán: mercadeo ultramarino y de cabotaje desde los...
México, D.F: Editorial Planeta, Seix Barral, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. 448p., wrps. Debated to be between fiction and reality, literature and journalism, Ricardo Raphael leads the reader through a powerful story that depicts the ruin of a divided and injured society. The author has conducted an autopsy of a country..... More about Hijo de la guerra
Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Metales Pesados, 2019. 1st Edition. Paperback. iv, 170p., illus., facsimiles, bibl., wrps. In recent decades, Latin American magazines have been the subject of study for historians, literary critics and art historians, allowing the identification of intellectual networks and forms of cultural intervention central to Latino history..... More about Materialidades de lo impreso. Revistas latinoamericanas 1910-1950
Santiago de Chile: Debate, 2019. 1st Edition. Paperback. v, 287p., photos, illus., wrps. From a personal experience with taxidermy and a series of anecdotes about the transfer of bones and graves (family and others), Cristóbal Marín narrates in this chronicle his long journey in search of information on the whereabouts..... More about Huesos sin descanso. Fueguinos en Londres
Santiago de Chile: Alquimia, 2019. 1st Edition. Paperback. v, 134p., photos, illus., wrps. A hybrid book full of moving scenes, located at the limit of self-fiction and the writing of memories. A testimony that returns to the experience of growing up and its metaphors. And it opens another side: how..... More about Papelucho gay en dictadura
Buenos Aires: Tinta Limón, 2018. 1st Edition. Paperback. iv, 309p., photos, tables, bibl., wrps. Reconstructs the surprising communicational structure of the last military civil dictatorship, bringing to the present a novel image of that period, which allows the reader to see in perspective the centrality that the targeted campaigns have..... More about La acción psicológica : dictadura, inteligencia y gobierno de las emociones (1955-1981). Una...
La Paz, Bolivia: Plural Editores, 2018. 1st Edition. Paperback. iv, 225p., wrps. This novel is a meditation on the dichtomies of life and the internal wars waged to discover who one is, and whether he or she will allow external or internal influence guide consciousness, morality, ethics. The protagonist must..... More about El desierto de Dalí
Santiago de Chile: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2011. First Edition. Paperback. viii,161p., map, photos, wrps. Begins and ends in the same room of an old house near the Mapocho Station, inhabited by three generations of southerners who did not dare abandon the proximity of the train to enter Santiago. The..... More about Ramal
Buenos Aires: Tinta Limón, (Colección Nociones comunes), 2018. First Edition. Paperback. iii, 169p., photos, illus., table, bibl., wrps. This is an experiment--- in writing and in the (self) edition---that has to do with the thought that author has been feeding. Her concern for the words that "conceal" has been a...... More about Un mundo ch'ixi es posible: ensayos desde un presente en crisis
Las Mercedes: Editorial Planeta Venezolana, (Biblioteca andina), 1993. First Edition. Paperback. ii, 282p., wrps. Hugo---protagonist---after a disappointment in his love life will gradually discover that the most bland moments shared with friends (a lunch, a reading), or the most routine and exhausting work, may be what he needs to stay..... More about Cabo de vida
Venezuela: El Estilete, 2018. 1st Edition. Paperback. ii, 167p., wrps. Privileges the art of careful reading; that is, the primary exercise of literary criticism that puts the magnifying glass on the future of the work of a series of national authors the author creates dialogue with in this book; seeking..... More about Las heridas de la literatura venezolana
Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 323p., photos, illus., bibl., wrps. "Hispanoamérica en diez novelas" is a critical study by Fidel Sepúlveda Llanos on ten flagship Latin American novels, including "Pedro Páramo", "Rayuela", "La casa verde", "El obsceno pájaro de la noche", "Cien años..... More about Hispanoamérica en diez novelas
Santiago de Chile: Fondo de Cultura Economica (Colección Tierra Firme), 2017. Second Edition. Paperback. 147p., wrps. "INRI" is a poetic account of a shocking, clandestine activity in Chile: throwing the bodies of the disappeared into volcanoes and the ocean. This work is a response to the need to find language..... More about INRI
Santiago de Chile: Editorial Planeta Chilena, Emecé, Cruz del Sur, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 194p., illus., wrps. "Juegos florales" is Chilean writer Vladimir Rivera Órdenes' first novel, titled after a well known poetry contest in Chile. Previously, Rivera Órdenes has published the titles"El Gato que nos ilumina" and "La vida..... More about Juegos florales
Santiago de Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 216p., wrps. In the novel "Acerca de las cosas perdidas", Catalina, a twelve-year-old girl, loses her father after making a promise that only later will she fully understand. Then, in the middle of her adolescence, she confronts her ambitious and..... More about Acerca de las cosas perdidas
Santiago de Chile: Editorial Planeta Chilena, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 385p., wrps. In the novel "Salisbury", Martin Martinic returns to his hometown to attend the funeral of Juan José Birchmayer, his best friend, after spending sixteen years in the capital and achieving fame as a TV actor. There, he meets..... More about Salisbury
Santiago de Chile: Ediciones / Metales pesados, 2016. First Edition. Paperback. 329p., photos, facsimiles, bibl., wrps. Throughout the history of Chilean cinematography, women filmmakers and their productions have had almost no presence in the industry; however, this is not synonymous with non-existence. Certainly, since the beginning of the twentieth century..... More about Nomadías. El cine de Marilú Mallet, Valeria Sarmiento y Angelina Vázquez
Madrid: Editorial Polibea, 2016. 1st Edition. Paperback. iv, 150p., photos, wrps. The book includes a collection of eleven articles on outstanding films that appeared on the market in the period between 1995 and 2005. The repertoire of this selection is dedicated internationally. The selection criterion is the capacity for thematic..... More about Que todo en la vida es cine: escritos autobiográficos sobre peluculas