Overview :Foster discusses ten Argentine films, including Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Official Story, and Man Facing Southeast to examine the trans... Read More
Overview :Mexico has a rich literary heritage that extends back over centuries to the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. This major reference work surveys... Read More
Overview :"Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In ... Read More
Overview :Viewing contemporary Latin American films through the lens of queer studies reveals that many filmmakers are exploring issues of gender iden... Read More
Overview :Latin America is home to roughly half a million Jews, preponderantly Ashkenazic Jews. The majority are concentrated in Argentina, but Brazil... Read More
Overview :Explores Buenos Aires' multileveled integration and cultural production. Foster combines an eclectic dimension - analyzing such ephemera as ... Read More
Overview :The City as Photographic Text offers the first comprehensive presentation of photography on S o Paulo. But more than just a study of one cit... Read More
Overview :One of the important cultural responses to political and sociohistorical events in Latin America is a resurgence of urban photography, which... Read More
Overview :In this study, David William Foster examines more than two dozen texts that deal with gay and lesbian topics, drawing from them significant ... Read More
Overview :Writers and editors of Spanish have long needed an authoritative guide to written language usage, similar to The MLA Style Manual and The Ch... Read More
Overview :This work examines the cultural impact of photography in Argentina following the end of the country's military dictatorship in the early 198... Read More
Overview :Mexican-American life, like that of nearly every contemporary community, has been extensively photographed. Yet there is surprisingly little... Read More
Overview :Since the 1991 publication of his groundbreaking book Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing, David William Foster has proposed a ... Read More
Overview :This study presents an analysis of two works by Augusto Roa Bastos, El trueno entre las hojas and Hijo de hombre. In his investigation of th... Read More
Overview :"El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the me... Read More