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  • Las Aventuras (Casi) Verdaderas De Max Rodriguez
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Max Rodríguez (nacío Maxine) podía leer antes de poder hablar, devorando cómics, novelas y libros de filosofía. Este amor temprano por la lectura le ayuda a navegar la vida turbulenta comó estudiante de secundaria en Nowheresville, California. Las aventuras de Max incluyen encuentros con su chispeante abuelita (alias Tatabuela), que conduce un coche musculoso verde Hulk y culti...
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    22,61 €

  • The Absolutely (Almost) True Adventures Of Max Rodriguez
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Max Rodriguez (née Maxine) could read before they could talk, devouring comics, novels, and books on philosophy. This helps them later to navigate the topsy-turvy life as a 9th grader in Nowheresville, California. Max’s adventures include encounters with their spirited abuelita (aka Tatabuela), who drives a Hulk-green muscle car and grows marijuana in her attic; an estranged, s...
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    17,97 €

  • Graphic Indigeneity
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Contributions by Joshua T. Anderson, Chad A. Barbour, Susan Bernardin, Mike Borkent, Jeremy M. Carnes, Philip Cass, Jordan Clapper, James J. Donahue, Dennin Ellis, Jessica Fontaine, Jonathan Ford, Lee Francis IV, Enrique García, Javier García Liendo, Brenna Clarke Gray, Brian Montes, Arij Ouweneel, Kevin Patrick, Candida Rifkind, Jessica Rutherford, and Jorge SantosCultural wor...
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    52,52 €

  • Graphic Indigeneity
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Contributions by Joshua T. Anderson, Chad A. Barbour, Susan Bernardin, Mike Borkent, Jeremy M. Carnes, Philip Cass, Jordan Clapper, James J. Donahue, Dennin Ellis, Jessica Fontaine, Jonathan Ford, Lee Francis IV, Enrique García, Javier García Liendo, Brenna Clarke Gray, Brian Montes, Arij Ouweneel, Kevin Patrick, Candida Rifkind, Jessica Rutherford, and Jorge SantosCultural wor...
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    160,68 €

  • Jeff Smith
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    First with his magisterial fantasy Bone to his mind-bending, time-warping sci-fi noir RASL, Paleolithic-set fantasy Tüki: Save the Humans, arthouse-styled superheroic miniseries Shazam!, and his latest children's book Smiley's Dream Book, Jeff Smith (b. 1960) has made an indelible mark on the comics industry.As a child, Smith was drawn to Charles Schulz's Peanuts, C...
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    44,41 €

  • Jeff Smith
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    First with his magisterial fantasy Bone to his mind-bending, time-warping sci-fi noir RASL, Paleolithic-set fantasy Tüki: Save the Humans, arthouse-styled superheroic miniseries Shazam!, and his latest children's book Smiley's Dream Book, Jeff Smith (b. 1960) has made an indelible mark on the comics industry.As a child, Smith was drawn to Charles Schulz's Peanuts, C...
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    159,87 €

  • Comics Studies Here and Now
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study. ...
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    267,49 €

  • Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    In recent years, few areas of research have advanced as rapidly as cognitive science, the study of the human mind and brain. A fundamentally interdisciplinary field, cognitive science has both inspired and been advanced by work in the arts and humanities. In Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, and Aesthetics, Frederick Luis Aldama and Patrick Colm...
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    46,16 €

  • Graphic Borders
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made nontraditional by means of racial and sexual identity (e.g., Miles Morales/Spider-Man), comics have become a vibrant medium to express Latino identity and culture. Indeed, Latino fiction and nonfiction narratives are rapidly proliferating in...
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    40,21 €

  • Latino/a Literature in the Classroom
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    In one of the most rapidly growing areas of literary study, this volume provides the first comprehensive guide to teaching Latino/a literature in all variety of learning environments. Essays by internationally renowned scholars offer an array of approaches and methods to the teaching of the novel, short story, plays, poetry, autobiography, testimonial, comic book, children and ...
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    88,33 €

  • The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Robert Rodriguez stands alone as the most successful U.S. Latino filmmaker today, whose work has single-handedly brought U.S. Latino filmmaking into the mainstream of twenty-first-century global cinema. Rodriguez is a prolific (eighteen films in twenty-one years) and all-encompassing filmmaker who has scripted, directed, shot, edited, and scored nearly all his films since his f...
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    33,81 €

  • Latinos in the End Zone
    Christopher González / Frederick Luis Aldama
    Here, Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González offer a thought-provoking conversation on the history of Latinos in the pro football leagues. As they weave their way through significant points where culture, politics, and history congeal (an early twentieth century era of Brown Color Lines, the Great Depression, WWII, birth of television, Civil Rights struggles, the twenty...
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    84,24 €

  • Latinos and Narrative Media
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Bringing together 15 scholars of Latino popular culture, this book makes visible a range of material objects and intellectual products out there that capture the myriad and infinite experiences of Latinos. The contributors identify a contemporary scene whe ...
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    144,75 €

  • Formal Matters in Contemporary Latino Poetry
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Today’s Latino poetry scene is bursting at the seams. While Latino poetry has played an important role in establishing Latino letters, surprisingly only a few scholars have spent time analyzing its form. The first of its kind, Formal Matters in Contemporar ...
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    65,28 €

  • The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature presents the first comprehensive overview of these popular, experimental and diverse literary cultures. Frederick Luis Aldama traces a historical path through Latino/a literature, examining both the historical and political contexts of the works, as well as their authors and the readership. He also provides an enlightening an...
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    82,85 €

  • The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature traces a historical path through Latino/a literatures, with an enlightening analysis that also focuses on:recent themes such as gender and sexuality, feminist and queer voices, migration and border control different literary trends such as the postmodern, avant-garde, noir, and chica-lit language, code-switching and identity ...
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    268,15 €

  • Multicultural Comics
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle is the first comprehensive look at comic books by and about race and ethnicity. The thirteen essays tease out for the general reader the nuances of how such multicultural comics skillfully combine visual and verbal elements to tell richly compelling stories that gravitate around issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality withi...
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    33,52 €

  • Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and evolutionary biology, among other disciplines, to explore and understand more deeply various cultural phenomena, including art, music, literature, and film. The essays fu...
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    44,26 €

  • A User’s Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Why are so many people attracted to narrative fiction? How do authors in this genre reframe experiences, people, and environments anchored to the real world without duplicating 'real life'? In which ways does fiction differ from reality? What might fictional narrative and reality have in common-if anything? By analyzing novels such as Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, Am...
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    26,80 €

  • Your Brain on Latino Comics
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Though the field of comic book studies has burgeoned in recent years, Latino characters and creators have received little attention. Putting the spotlight on this vibrant segment, Your Brain on Latino Comics illuminates the world of superheroes Firebird, Vibe, and the new Blue Beetle while also examining the effects on readers who are challenged to envision such worlds. Explori...
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    39,87 €

  • Why the Humanities Matter
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Is there life after postmodernism? Many claim that it sounded the death knell for history, art, ideology, science, possibly all of Western philosophy, and certainly for the concept of reality itself. Responding to essential questions regarding whether the humanities can remain politically and academically relevant amid this twenty-first-century uncertainty, Why the Humanities M...
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    46,86 €

  • Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Since the 1980s, a prolific 'second wave' of Chicano/a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicano/a literature and art. Building on the pioneering work of their predecessors, whose artistic creations were often tied to political activism and the civil rights struggle, today’s Chicano/a writers and artists feel free to focus a...
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    40,30 €

  • Brown on Brown
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Common conceptions permeating U.S. ethnic queer theory tend to confuse aesthetics with real-world acts and politics. Often Chicano/a representations of gay and lesbian experiences in literature and film are analyzed simply as propaganda. The cognitive, emotional, and narrational ingredients (that is, the subject matter and the formal traits) of those representations are frequen...
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    26,89 €

  • Postethnic Narrative Criticism
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Magical realism has become almost synonymous with Latin American fiction, but this way of representing the layered and often contradictory reality of the topsy-turvy, late-capitalist, globalizing world finds equally vivid expression in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. Writers and filmmakers such as Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Han...
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    27,00 €