مؤلف: David Frye

Betancourt examines women’s writings in relation to language, power, sexuality and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the creation of alternative matria frameworks that enunciate a feminist/feminin …

For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork of people from Persia, Rome, Chi …

4 A.M. End of December . . .Clinton Street, New York. A lonely goldsmith reflects on his life. He decides to return to his home village in Spain, hoping to see again an older woman with whom he had a …

‘;A lively popular history of an oft-overlooked element in the development of human society’ (Library Journal)wallsand a haunting and eye-opening saga that reveals a startling link between what we bu …

Natalia is to be married to a German sailor much older than herself, but two days before the wedding she meets Diego, a mysterious young dancer, and they fall immediately in love. When he serenades h …

The long-awaited capstone to the landmark trilogy that began with A Legend of the Future and The Year 200 by Agustín de Rojas, “one of Cuba’s greatest science fiction writers” — SF Signal The winner …

Introduced by beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss as one of the foundational novels of the genre, Miguel Collazo’s 1960s classic The Journey is a mind-opening parable of social progress, prophe …

Cuéntame algo, aunque sea una mentira imprime una discusión crítica sobre los fundamentos teóricos de la antropología y de las prácticas usuales en el campo etnográfico. Esta reflexión se completa co …

La humanidad lleva más de 4.000 años construyendo murallas para protegerse: desde la muralla de Mesopotamia al muro de Berlín, pasando por la Gran Muralla China y El Mirador en Guatemala. Los muros, …

From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond Chandler, about a positronic robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous extraterrestrial …

“ A Planet for Rent is the English-language debut of Yoss, one of Cuba’s most lauded writers of science fiction. Translated by David Frye, these linked stories craft a picture of a dystopian future: …

Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of 2016 Barnes and Noble Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2016 “Intergalactic space travel meets outrageous, biting satire in Super Extra Grande…. Its author [Yoss] is on …

“Yoss (Super Extra Grande) is an eminent Cuban SF writer who also fronts a heavy metal band; his iconoclastic spirit and rock-and-roll aesthetic are on full ingenious display in this daring, rollicki …

For readers of Isabel Allende, Gabriela Garcia, and Julia Alvarez, the story of a woman who must fight for her love and her child in a Cuba suffocated by oppression A free spirit who spends time near …

First published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Nestor Garcia Canclini’s deft assessment of contemporary art. The renowned cultural critic suggests that, ideally, art is the place of imminen …

Revolution in the Andes is an in-depth history of the Tupac Amaru insurrection, the largest and most threatening indigenous challenge to Spanish rule in the Andean world after the Conquest. Between 1 …

Embers of the Past is a powerful critique of historicism and modernity. Javier Sanjines C. analyzes the conflict between the cultures and movements of indigenous peoples and attention to the modern n …

Angel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America’s most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Or …

The Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano is widely considered to be a foundational figure of the decolonial perspective grounded in three basic concepts: coloniality, coloniality of power, and the col …