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Books by Jennifer Harford Vargas






Forms of Dictatorship(1st Edition)
Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel (Oxford Studies in American Literary History)
by Jennifer Harford Vargas
Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-064285-3, ISBN: 0-19-064285-8

"An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes a new sub-genre of Latina/o fiction, which the author calls the Latina/o dictatorship novel. The book illuminates Latina/os' central contributions to the literary histor ..."






Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination
by Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, José David Saldívar, Jose´ David Saldi´Var
Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2016 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6033-9, ISBN: 0-8223-6033-0

"The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Diaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Diaz's decolonial imagination and his radically re-envisioned world, the contributors show how his aesthetic and activist practice reflect a significa ..."






Forms of Dictatorship
Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel (Oxford Studies in American Literary History)
by Jennifer Harford Vargas
Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2019 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-007967-3, ISBN: 0-19-007967-3

"An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes a new sub-genre of Latina/o fiction, which the author calls the Latina/o dictatorship novel. The book illuminates Latina/os' central contributions to the literary histor ..."






Junot Diaz and the Decolonial Imagination
(Hardback)
by Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, Jose´ David Saldi´Var, Jose David Saldivar, Jane Doe
Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2016 by Duke Univ Pr (Tx)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6024-7, ISBN: 0-8223-6024-1

"The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Diaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Diaz's decolonial imagination and his radically re-envisioned world, the contributors show how his aesthetic and activist practice reflect a significa ..."






Border Cinema
Reimagining Identity through Aesthetics (Global Media and Race)
by Monica Hanna, Rebecca A. Sheehan, Frederick Luis Aldama, José Capino, Rosa-Linda Fregoso, Nurith Gertz, Jennifer Harford Vargas, Marina Hassapopoulou, Elena Lahr-Vivaz, Yael Munk, Anita Pinzi, Anat Zanger, Rutgers University Press
Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2019 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-978803-15-2, ISBN: 1-978803-15-X

"The rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics reflect, construct, intervene in, denature, and reconfigure geopolitical borders. This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists conte ..."






Junot díaz and the Decolonial Imagination
by Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, José David Saldívar
448 Pages, Published 2015 by Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-7476-3, ISBN: 0-8223-7476-5

"What precisely Yunior fears becomes clear the next day: he is afraid he will “end up abnormal, a fucking pato.”58 Yunior's fear is rooted not just in the notion that having sex with a man defines you as gay, but in the more specific Latin American discourse on homosexuality that suggests the receiver of homosexual action is gay, not the giver. To be pasivo, the recipient of sexual penetration or another penetrative sex act, makes a ..."






Reimagining US Colombianidades
Transnational subjectivities, cultural expressions, and political contestations (The Latino Studies, 3) [Hardcover ]
by Rincón, Lina, Londoño, Johana, Harford Vargas, Jennifer, Cepeda, María Elena
Hardcover, 199 Pages, Published 2023 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-3-031-21783-8, ISBN: 3-031-21783-7






Reimagining US Colombianidades
Transnational subjectivities, cultural expressions, and political contestations
by Lina Rincón, Johana Londoño, Jennifer Harford Vargas, María Elena Cepeda
191 Pages, Published 2023 by Springer Nature
ISBN-13: 978-3-031-21784-5, ISBN: 3-031-21784-5

"... Zoe Dirse has explored the unique dynamics prompted when the " bearer of the look " is female - identified , and the object of that glance is female as well ( 2013 , p . 18 ) . Several distinct , frequently intersecting female gazes in ..."

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