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Global CASA and LACASA Publications

Collective Volumes on Latin American Cultural Studies and Globalization

In Spanish

Orbis/Urbis Latino: Los “Hispanos” en las ciudades de los Estados Unidos.

Orbis/Urbis Latino book coverFocusing on six cities, this collection shows how urban processes transform Latinos and how Latinos “latinize” the cities. John Beverley, Agustín Lao-Montes, Armando Silva and others. $25.00

Ir y venir: Procesos transnacionales en el nuevo [des]orden mundial.

Ir y Venir book cover

Migration and cultural studies come together for a seminal collection that includes work by Sarah Mahler, John Gledhill, Arturo Arias, Abril Trigo, Carlos Monsiváis, etc. ISBN 0- 9767019-5-2. $25.00. View detailed description »

Las ciudades latinoamericanas en el nuevo [des]orden mundial. Book CoverSpanish-language essays by Néstor García Canclini, Saskia Sassen, Jesús Martín Barbero, and others. Siglo XXI co-publication. ISBN: 968-23-2453-X. $25.00 View detailed description »

Estudios culturales centroamericanos en el nuevo milenio.

Estudios Culturales Centroamericanos en el nuevo milenio book coverA pioneer collection that brings to the table the morst important contemporary themes. With Arturo Arias, John Beverley, Ileana Rodríguez, Mario Lungo and many young specialists in the field.. ISBN 0-9767019-0. $24.00 View detailed description »

Estudios culturales y cuestiones globales: Latinoamérica en la coyuntura transnacional.

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Post- 9/11 perspectives on the field— articles by Daniel Mato, Abril Trigo, Santiago Castro-Gómez, Jeffrey Browitt, Anadeli Bencomo, etc. ISBN 956- 7003-97-1. $18.00.

Globalización, nación, postmodernidad: estudios culturales puertorriqueños. Book CoverFrances Aparicio, Luis Felipe Díaz, Juan Flores, Carlos Gil and other outstanding Puerto Rican researchers debate the postmodern and globalizad condition of their world. ISBN: 0-9709224-0-X. $24.00.

 

In English

New World [Dis]Orders & Peripheral Strains. Book CoverEssays by Hugo Achugar, Arturo Arias, Elizam Escobar, Ileana Rodríguez, the editors and others on postmodernity and globalization. ISBN: 1-877636-19-9. $12.00

 

Marc Zimmerman Series in Pre-Post and Post Positions

In Spanish

América Latina en el nuevo [des]orden mundial.

Book cover El Nuevo

Eight essays on globalization and transnacional processes--questions about inmigration, cities, borders, universities, Euro-Latin American relations and 9/11. ISBN: 0-9767019-3-6. $20.00. View detailed description »

 

 

El momento fugaz: Posiciones posmodernas en el mundo Latinoamericano.

Book cover El momento Fugaz

Postmodern processes in Latin America, with essays on Marxism, literature, globalization and the future. ISBN 0-9767019-7-9. $18.00. View detailed description »

 

 

Literatura y testimonio en Centro-América: Posiciones post-insurgentes.

Literatura y testimonio en Centro-America book coverGuatemala City. Co-pubication with Guatemala’s Universidad Rafael Landívar, with essays on intellectuals, poetry, the novel and Rigoberta Menchú. ISBN 0-9767019-1. $15.00. View detailed description »

 

 

 

In English

Mixing the Personal and Professional:  Essays, Days and Ways Left along the Way. Mixing the professional and the personalEssays on structuralism, New Left theory, Central American collage, Borders and other issues tracing an intellectual’s trajectory from the 1970s to the present. ISBN 0- 9767019-9-5. $15.00 View detailed description »

 

 

South to North: Framing Latin and Central American, Caribbean and Latino Literatures. South to NorthEssays framing the studies of the literatures in question, exploring their unity and differentials. ISBN 0-9767019-3-6. $20.00. View detailed description »

 

 

Lucien Goldmann, Genetic Structuralism and Cultural Creation in the Capitalist World. Book cover Lucien GoldmannA book tracing major themes in the work of a major sociologist of philosophy, culture and literature. ISBN 0-9767019-1- X. $20.00. View detailed description »

 

 

Politics & Modernity/ Europe and Latin America. Politics and ModernityArt and politics in de Sade and Lautréamont, the Surrealist writers, Brecht and Picasso; transatlantic connections and transculturation processes in writers such as Borges, Fuentes, Darío, Cardoza y Aragón, Cardenal, Dalton, and Claribel Alegría. ISBN: 0-9767019-8-7. $18.00 View detailed description »

Pre-Post Positions: Essays on Structures & History, Literary Theory and Aesthetics.Marxism, structuralism, structural historicism, art and politics in a world of commodity production. ISBN: 0-9767019- 2-8. $15.00 View detailed description »

 

 

 

 

Literary Creation

Líneas desde el Golfo.Lineas desde el golfo book coverA collection of Houston. Texasbased fiction and poetry edited by Edna Ochoa. The first publication of our Gulf of Mexico initiative. ISBN: 0- 9767019-0-1. $15.00

Stores of Winter. Stores of winter book coverShort fiction by Marc Zimmerman. Stories of childhood and notso- innocents abroad in Spain and Italy—plus a Jewish American tragic-comedy. ISBN 0- 9767019-4-4. $15.00 View detailed description »

 

 

Alessandro Carrera Series in Italian Translation and Theory

Le porte di eucalipto. Poesie scelte.

Allen Mandelbaum. Fine Italian translations of the best poems by a major poet, stressing Jewish diasporas and cultural mixes in Europe and the Mediterranean. ISBN 978- 88-7698-100-5.Bilingual edition. $25.00 More about the author »

La consistenza del passato.

Alessandro Carrera. Heidegger Nietzsche Severino. Emanuele Severino, seen as mediating between Nietzsche and Heidegger, rebutting every influence of time upon Being. ISBN 978-88-7698-119-7. $22.00. More about the authors »