Books in the Latinx and Latin American Profiles series

Situates Theater and Performance in Debates on Dominican History and Culture and the Impact of Migration

This volume reassesses the field of Chicana/o literary studies in light of the rise of Latina/o studies, the recovery of a large body of early literature by Mexican Americans, and the "transnational turn" in American studies.

In Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century, Tace Hedrick illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and commodification shape the genre of "chica lit," popular fiction written by Latina authors with Latina characters.

The Brazilian television industry is one of the most productive and commercially successful in the world. Eli Lee Carter examines the field of television production by focusing on the work of one of Brazil's greatest living directors, Luiz Fernando Carvalho. Through an emphasis on Carvalho's thirty-plus year career, Carter sheds light on Brazilian television's history, its current state, and its future.

Presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat. Beginning with her literary celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into the Poetry Society of America, it traces her relative obscurity after 1952 when she married and took on family and employment responsibilities, to her triumphant return to the spotlight decades later.

A new reading of U.S. Latinx literature in translation.

A Study of the Work of Ilan Stavans

Performance Art as a Source of Historical Truth in Mexico