Radical changes in Central America point to a new political era, and the area's participation in a "new world [dis]order" involving new processes and new theoretical frames to understand them. Neo-liberal economic policies, persistent socio-political and natural crises, and new issues regarding politics and power in relation gender and ethnic identities, have come to the fore. Now the question of how to study Central American societies has bec...
The conquest, colonization, independence, the liberal reforms, the regimes, revolution, and dictatorships, the insurrections and ongoing peace dialogues all are combined in a narrative projecting the most important forces in Guatemalan history from the Mayan period to our own times.Using
This volume explores U.S. Puerto Rican culture as presented in East Coast, Midwest, and Chicago cultural production while exploring Puerto Rican musical, film, artistic and literary performance. Marc Zimmerman relates the experience of Puerto Ricans to that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans, showing how how Puerto Ricans have survived and created new identities and relations out of their colonized and diasporic circumstances. He looks at visual ...
Volume One, examining the cultural context of various forms of Guatemalan writing, is titled Theory, History, Fiction, and Poetry ). Volume Two, titled Testimonio and Cultural Politics in the Years of Cerezo and Serrano Elfas, examines the currents of opposition in the nation's fiction, poetry, and
Dig up rock and dig up clay! Dig up dirt and dig all day! Mr. Rally and his faithful dog, Lightning, have a busy day ahead of them, but they don't mind. What could be more fun than using a big yellow backhoe to build a pool at the school and a drain for the rain? Follow Mr. Rally through his day as he travels around town, counting from one to five in an irresistible refrain. Marc Rosenthal's colorful, nostalgic illustrations add a bold dimensi...
