The Tattooed Soldier
Title | The Tattooed Soldier PDF eBook |
Author | Héctor Tobar |
Publisher | Picador |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2014-10-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1250055865 |
Antonio Bernal is a Guatemalan refugee in Los Angeles haunted by memories of his wife and child, who were murdered at the hands of a man marked with yellow ink. In a park near Antonio's apartment, Guillermo Longoria extends his arm and reveals a sinister tattoo—yellow pelt, black spots, red mouth. It is the sign of the death squad, the Jaguar Battalion of the Guatemalan army. This chance encounter between Antonio and his family's killer ignites a psychological showdown between these two men. Each will discover that the war in Central America has migrated with them as they are engulfed by the quemazones—"the great burning" of the Los Angeles riots. A tragic tale of loss and destiny in the underbelly of an American city, The Tattooed Soldier is Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Héctor Tobar's mesmerizing exploration of violence and the marks it leaves upon us.
The Tattooed Soldier
Title | The Tattooed Soldier PDF eBook |
Author | Héctor Tobar |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 307 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Guatemalan Americans |
ISBN | 9781852426491 |
In a shabby apartment in downtown Los Angeles, Antonio Bernal waits to be evicted. It is the final defeat in a series of blows that drove him from Guatemala after a death squad murdered his wife and child, a boy of two. Not far from Antonio?s apartment, Guillermo Longoria is playing chess. Utterly absorbed in the game, he stretches for the queen revealing the tattoo on his arm which bears witness to his past - as a member of the Jaguar Battalion of the guatemalan Army. The Tattooed Soldier tells the riveting story of two haunted men and the fatal intersecting of their lives.
Latinas/os in the United States
Title | Latinas/os in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Havidan Rodriguez |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 412 |
Release | 2007-11-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0387719431 |
The Latina/o population in the United States has become the largest minority group in the nation. Latinas/os are a mosaic of people, representing different nationalities and religions as well as different levels of education and income. This edited volume uses a multidisciplinary approach to document how Latinas and Latinos have changed and continue to change the face of America. It also includes critical methodological and theoretical information related to the study of the Latino/a population in the United States.
Dividing the Isthmus
Title | Dividing the Isthmus PDF eBook |
Author | Ana Patricia Rodríguez |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | 311 |
Release | 2009-08-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0292774583 |
In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and military interventions in Central America. This event marked the inception of the struggle for economic, political, and cultural autonomy in Central America as well as an era of homegrown inequities, injustices, and impunities to which Central Americans have responded in creative and critical ways. This juncture also set the conditions for the creation of the Transisthmus—a material, cultural, and symbolic site of vast intersections of people, products, and narratives. Taking 1899 as her point of departure, Ana Patricia Rodríguez offers a comprehensive, comparative, and meticulously researched book covering more than one hundred years, between 1899 and 2007, of modern cultural and literary production and modern empire-building in Central America. She examines the grand narratives of (anti)imperialism, revolution, subalternity, globalization, impunity, transnational migration, and diaspora, as well as other discursive, historical, and material configurations of the region beyond its geophysical and political confines. Focusing in particular on how the material productions and symbolic tropes of cacao, coffee, indigo, bananas, canals, waste, and transmigrant labor have shaped the transisthmian cultural and literary imaginaries, Rodríguez develops new methodological approaches for studying cultural production in Central America and its diasporas. Monumental in scope and relentlessly impassioned, this work offers new critical readings of Central American narratives and contributes to the growing field of Central American studies.
Unhomely Wests
Title | Unhomely Wests PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Tatum |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1496237188 |
Incorporating readings of key cultural texts from the environmental humanities, studies of globalization and economics, postmodernism, psychoanalytic criticism, and feminist theory, Stephen Tatum addresses the ongoing crises of displacement and loss of home in the modern urban West.
The City in American Literature and Culture
Title | The City in American Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin R. McNamara |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 417 |
Release | 2021-08-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108841961 |
This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.
Angry Planet
Title | Angry Planet PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Stewart |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 343 |
Release | 2023-01-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1452968640 |
Before the idea of the Anthropocene, there was the angry planet How might we understand an earthquake as a complaint, or erosion as a form of protest—in short, the Earth as an angry planet? Many novels from the end of the millennium did just that, centering around an Earth that acts, moves, shapes human affairs, and creates dramatic, nonanthropogenic change. In Angry Planet, Anne Stewart uses this literature to develop a theoretical framework for reading with and through planetary motion. Typified by authors like Colson Whitehead, Octavia Butler, and Leslie Marmon Silko, whose work anticipates contemporary critical concepts of entanglement, withdrawal, delinking, and resurgence, angry planet fiction coalesced in the 1990s and delineated the contours of a decolonial ontology. Stewart shows how this fiction brought Black and Indigenous thought into conversation, offering a fresh account of globalization in the 1990s from the perspective of the American Third World, construing it as the era that first made connections among environmental crises and antiracist and decolonial struggles. By synthesizing these major intersections of thought production in the final decades of the twentieth century, Stewart offers a recent history of dissent to the young movements of the twenty-first century. As she reveals, this knowledge is crucial to incipient struggles of our contemporary era, as our political imaginaries grapple with the major challenges of white nationalism and climate change denial.