This book applies models that reflect the fluid, mediated, hybrid, and nomadic global scenes within which Generation X artists and writers live, think, and work in Spain. Henseler touches on critical insights in comparative media studies, cultural studies, and social theory, and conveys the nuances of multiple voices, facts, figures, and faces. [In English, with quotations in English and Spanish]

Introduced by informative entries which place the authors in their cultural and historical context, the selections in this collection are as diverse as Hispanic culture itself and the personalities of their authors, including Denise Chávez, Lucha Corpi, Roberta Fernández, Varadero, Roberto Fernández, Lionel García, Genaro González, Rolando Hinojosa, Max Martínez, Nicholasa Mohr, Margarita Mondrus Engle, Alejandro Morales, Elías Miguel Muñoz, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Estela Portillo Trambley, Tomás Rivera, Floyd Salas, Virgil Suárez, Sabine Ulibarrí, Ed Vega, Victor Villaseñor, and Helena Mariá Viramontes.

These interviews reveal not only the authors' origins but also how they were able to overcome difficulties and challenges in their lives. The interviewed novelists include Mario Bencastro, Aristeo Brito, Rolando J. D az, Graciela Lim n, and Demetria Mart nez. Interviews conducted in English with Mexican-American writers are included in their original English version along with a Spanish translation. This book facilitates understanding the various dynamics of the Hispanic experience through literature.

The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Production examines how Latin American writers, artists, and intellectuals have negotiated their relationship with Western culture from the colony to the present. De Castro looks at writers and intellectual polemics that serve as markers of the region's cultural evolution. Among the writers and artists studied are Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, Jorge Luis Borges, Caetano Veloso, and Alberto Fuguet. This book proposes an analysis of the region's literature rooted in its specific cultural, political, and economic locations.

Mayan Indian peasants are tired of being thought of as nothing more than manual laborers. They organize an effort to improve their lot in life, but are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village and family, Enrique and Rosa, a teenage brother and sister, who barely escaped the massacre, decide they must flee to United States. They make their way by truck, bus and other means to Los Angeles, where they try to make a new life as young, uneducated, and illegal immigrants. In Spanish, Kiché and English with optional English subtitles.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983. See Catalog record for list of great Special Features!

Kindly antiques dealer Jesus Gris happens upon an ancient golden device, and soon finds himself possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious, crude American named Angel. Originally released as a motion picture in Mexico in 1993. Spanish and English dialogue with optional English subtitles.

"There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon." One of Steinbeck's most taught works, The Pearl is the story of the Mexican diver Kino, whose discovery of a magnificent pearl from the Gulf beds means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife Juana cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. [Filmed in Mexico in 1947. Released as a motion picture in 1948 by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.]. In English.