Offers a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, movements, genres, and historical turning points in Latino literature. More than 60 million Latinos currently live in the United States. Yet contributions from writers who trace their heritage to the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Mexico have and continue to be overlooked by critics and general audiences alike. Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students gathers the best from these authors and presents them to readers in an informed and accessible way. Intended to be a useful resource for students, this volume introduces the key figures and genres central to Latino literature. Entries are written by prominent and emerging scholars and are comprehensive in their coverage of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Different critical approaches inform and interpret the myriad complexities of Latino literary production over the last several hundred years. Finally, detailed historical and cultural accounts of Latino diasporas also enrich readers' understandings of the writings that have and continue to be influenced by changes in cultural geography, providing readers with the information they need to appreciate a body of work that will continue to flourish in and alongside Latino communities. Provides an overview of Latino literature and its myriad contributions to American cultures Showcases the diversity in modern Latino literary styles and narrative themes Includes writing by authors from several countries and distinct cultural traditions and explains how these have been integrated into the canon of Latino literature Shines a spotlight on emerging, lesser known, and understudied Latino scholars and writers

* Offers a practical overview of 28 crucial concepts in Marxist theory as developed and integrated by Jacques Lacan. * Opens up new possibilities of discourse within the academic field for considering Marxist economic, philosophical, epistemological, political and sociological concepts within the context of Lacan's readings. * Demonstrates the importance of Marxist concepts to Lacanian psychoanalytic practice. * Brings together a broad range of international contributors on the cutting edge of researching Marxist / Lacanian encounters. * Will appeal to psychoanalysts as well as academics and researchers in a broad range of fields.

* Offers a practical overview of 28 crucial concepts in Marxist theory as developed and integrated by Jacques Lacan. * Opens up new possibilities of discourse within the academic field for considering Marxist economic, philosophical, epistemological, political and sociological concepts within the context of Lacan's readings. * Demonstrates the importance of Marxist concepts to Lacanian psychoanalytic practice. * Brings together a broad range of international contributors on the cutting edge of researching Marxist / Lacanian encounters. * Will appeal to psychoanalysts as well as academics and researchers in a broad range of fields.

Imagen y realismo son temas recurrentes en las discusiones esteticas, filosoficas y politicas cada vez que hay una preocupacion por lo contemporaneo: sus origenes y destinos cruzados comparten la pregunta por el presente. La relacion clasica entre ambas cuestiones -la mimesis- se ha transformado hoy. En este libro se analizan obras visuales, cinematograficas, teatrales, poeticas y narrativas de America Latina que activan la experiencia de la temporalidad. En dialogo con dos ensayos de Raul Antelo y Bruno Bosteels, se enlazan aqui multiples enfoques que parecen privilegiar uno de los dos aspectos pero son atravesados por el otro, abriendo un espacio politico entre ambos. Raul Antelo - Bruno Bosteels - Adriana Rodriguez Persico - Mario Camara - Ana Amado - Jose Ramon Ruisanchez - Luz Rodriguez Carranza - Gabriel Inzaurralde - Dolores Lima - Graciela Goldchluk - Constanza Ceresa - Santiago Deymonnaz - Silvana Mandolessi - Rose Corral - Susana Scramim - Brigitte Adriaensen - Ana Chiara - Miguel Caballero Vazquez