SPAN 3349: Hispanic Cultures I (SS. VII-XVII): From the Making to the Burning of Books

"From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. A team of expert contributors draws on the latest research in order to offer a cogent, transcontinental narrative. Many of them use illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts, conveying the excitement surrounding this rapidly developing field. The Companion is organized around four distinct approaches to the history of the book."

Presents the history, the art, and the influence of books through all ages and cultures, revisiting the great works of religion, science, and literature and touching on the histories of book making, book selling, and book illustration.

explores women's literature in Latin America from early indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically and written by scholars in related fields, the encyclopedia offers an array of approaches that contribute to current dialogues about translation, literary genres, oral and written cultures, and the complex relationship between literature and the political sphere.

Features 28 chapters covering major themes and areas in the history of Latin America. All entries are written by scholars in the field, with extensive bibliographies of sources referenced.

Key themes include: Race and Citizenship, Inequality and Economic Development, Politics and Rights, Social and Cultural Movements, Globalization, Violence and Civil Society. Includes relevant primary documents - many translated for the first time - including advertisements and posters, song lyrics, political speeches, government documents, and more. Each chapter also includes timelines highlighting important dates and suggestions for further reading.

Features over 390 fully researched and cross referenced articles on various themes and figures in Latin American history. All articles include bibliographies of sources cited.

"Explores the intersections between gender, sexuality, and the creation, consumption, and interpretation of popular culture in the Américas. The chapters seek to enrich our understanding of the role of pop culture in the everyday lives of its creators and consumers, primarily in the 20th and 21st centuries. They reveal how popular culture expresses the historical, social, cultural, and political commonalities that have shaped the lives of peoples that make up the Américas, and also highlight how pop culture can conform to and solidify existing social hierarchies, whilst on other occasions contest and resist the status quo. Front and center in this collection are issues of gender and sexuality, making visible the ways in which subjects who inhabit intersectional identities (sex, gender, race, class) are "othered", as well as demonstrating how these same subjects can, and do, use pop-cultural phenomena in self-affirmative and progressively transformative ways."