Home Syllabus Calendar Resources Collaborate

Selected Bibliography on Diasporas, Migration and Borders in Latin American Cultures

Work in Progress

Arts:

Fields, Virginia M, et al. The Road to Aztlan : Art from a Mythic Homeland. 1st ed. ed., Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001.

Luque Agraz, Elin, et al. El arte de dar gracias : Selección De Exvotos Pictóricos Del Museo De La Basílica De Guadalupe = the Art of Giving Thanks : A Selection of Pictorial Exvotos in the Collection of the Museum of the Basilica of Guadalupe. 1a ed. ed., México, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2003.

Luque, Elin. Exvotos pictóricos: documentos visuales para la "otra historia" de México. Saarbrücken, Deutschland, Publicia, 2014.

Posada, José Guadalupe, Roberto Berdecio, and Stanley Appelbaum. Posada's Popular Mexican Prints; 273 Cuts. New York: Dover Publications, 1972.

Yampolsky, Mariana. The Edge of Time : Photographs of Mexico. Wittliff Gallery Series; Wittliff Gallery Series. 1st University of Texas Press ed. ed. Austin :: University of Texas Press, 1998.

Zarur, Elizabeth Netto Calil, and Charles M Lovell. Art and Faith in Mexico : The Nineteenth-Century Retablo Tradition. 1st ed. ed., Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

Fiction

Agosín, Marjorie. A Cross and a Star : Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

Agosín, Marjorie, et al. The House of Memory : Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America. The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series; Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series. 1st ed. ed. New York :: Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1999.

Agosín, Marjorie, and Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman. Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father. The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series; Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series. 1st ed. ed. New York :: Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1998.

Alexy, Trudi. The Marrano Legacy : A Contemporary Crypto-Jewish Priest Reveals Secrets of His Double Life. 1st ed. ed. Albuquerque :: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.

Amado, Jorge. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands; a Moral and Amorous Tale. [1st American ed.]. ed. New York: Knopf, 1969.

---. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon. An Avon Book; Avon Book. New York :: Avon Books, 1978.

Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bless Me, Ultima : A Novel. Berkeley, Calif. :: Tonatiuh International, 1972.

Berniker, Pinkhes. "Jesús." Oy, Caramba! : An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America. Ed. Stavans, Ilan. Albuquerque :: University of New Mexico Press, 2016. 245-55.

Borges, Jorge Luis, and Andrew Hurley. Fictions. Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics. London :: Penguin, 2000.

Borges, Jorge Luis, et al. Labyrinths : Selected Stories & Other Writings. New Directions Paperbook ; 186; New Directions Paperbook ; 186. Augmented edition ed. New York :: New Directions, 1964.

Calderón, Sara Levi. The Two Mujeres. 1st ed. ed. San Francisco :: Aunt Lute Books, 1991.

Carpentier, Alejo. The Kingdom of This World. New York :: Noonday Press, 1989.

Castellanos, Rosario, and Esther Allen. The Book of Lamentations. Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics; Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :: Penguin Books, 1998.

Chaviano, Daína, and Andrea G. Labinger. The Island of Eternal Love. 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed. ed. New York :: Riverhead Books, 2009.

Cohen, Martin A. The Martyr Luis De Carvajal : A Secret Jew in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. Jewish Latin America; Jewish Latin America. Albuquerque, New Mexico :: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

Correa, Armando Lucas, and Nick Caistor. The German Girl. First Atria books hardcover edition. ed. New York :: Atria Books, 2016.

Correas de Zapata, Celia. Short Stories by Latin American Women : The Magic and the Real. Houston, Tex. :: Arte Publico Press, 1990.

Dana, Victoria, and Lumen Editorial. A Donde Tú Vayas, Iré. Lumen Narrativa; Narrativa (Editorial Lumen). México :: Lumen, 2016.

Di Iorio, Lyn. Outside the Bones. Houston, Tex. :: Arte Público Press, 2011.

Fuentes, Carlos. "Chac Mool."

Fuentes, Carlos, and Lysander Kemp. Aura. 1st bilingual ed. ed. New York :: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.

García, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban. 1st ed. ed. New York :: Knopf :, 1992.

García Márquez, Gabriel, and Gregory Rabassa. One Hundred Years of Solitude. First edition. ed. New York ;: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.

Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, Margaret Sayers Peden, and Margaret Sayers Peden. Sor Juana InéS De La Cruz : Poems. Binghamton, N.Y. :: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1985.

Lara, Ana-Mauríne. ErzulíE's Skirt. 1st ed. ed. Washington, DC :: RedBone Press, 2006.

Laub, Michel, and Margaret Jull Costa. Diary of the Fall. London :: Vintage Books, 2015.

Lazo, Irete. The Accidental Santera : A Novel. 2013.Web

Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma. Daughters of the Stone. 1st ed. ed. New York :: Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.

Montero, Mayra, and Edith Grossman. The Red of His Shadow : A Novel. 1st ed. ed. New York :: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, and Enrique Pupo-Walker. Castaways : The Narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca. Latin American Literature and Culture ; 10; Latin American Literature and Culture ; 10. Berkeley, Calif. ;: University of California Press, 1993.

Poniatowska, Elena. "Coatlicue."

Quiñonez, Ernesto. Bodega Dreams. A Vintage Contemporaries Original; Vintage Contemporaries Original. First edition. ed. New York :: Vintage Contemporaries, 2000.

Rulfo, Juan, and Margaret Sayers Peden. Pedro Páramo. 1st ed. ed. New York :: Grove Press, 1994.

Stavans, Ilan. Oy, Caramba! : An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America. Albuquerque :: University of New Mexico Press, 2016.

Vargas Llosa, Mario. The War of the End of the World. New York :: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984.

---. The Storyteller. 1st ed. ed. New York :: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989.

Zapata Olivella, Manuel, and Jonathan Tittler. Changó, the Biggest Badass. The Americas; Americas (Lubbock, Tex.). Lubbock, Tex. :: Texas Tech University Press, 2010.

Films:

A Cidade Das Mulheres = the City of Women. 2005.

Gerardi. 2010.

The Story of the Jews. 2014.

Artenstein, Isaac, et al.Tijuana Jews. NCJF, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2005.

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands = Donna Flor E I Suoi Due Mariti. 1978.

Behar, Ruth, and Elizabeth Peña.Adio Kerida Goodbye Dear Love. Distributed by Women Make Movies, New York, 2002.

The Longing : The Forgotten Jews of South America. 2007.

Even the Rain = También La Lluvia. 2012.

Mr. Kaplan. 2015.

Bratt,Peter. La Mission. 2009.

Burman, Daniel S.Esperando Al Mesìas. TLA Releasing, [Philadelphia, Pa.], 2004.

El Abrazo Partido. 2004.

El Rey Del Once. 2016.

Cabrera, Lydia. Afro-Cuban Tales = Cuentos Negros De Cuba. Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

Orfeu Negro = Black Orpheus. 1999.

Anita. 2012.

Cinco Días Sin Nora. 2008.

18-J. 2004. Dubcovsky, Diego.

Romero. 2009.

Macario. 2003.

Glatzer,Richard and Wash Westmoreland, Quinceañera. 2006.

Strawberry and Chocolate = Fresa Y Chocolate. 2003.

La Ultima Cena. 2008.

Guantanamera. 2000.

O ano em que meus Pais Saíram De Férias. 2008.

Imar, Vivian. Legado. SBP, [Buenos Aires], 2005.

The Mission. 2003.

Morenita : El Escándalo. 2010.

Madeinusa. 2007.

Menis, MarÌa Victoria.La Cámara Oscura. Industria Argentina, San Luis, Argentina, 2009.

Mignogna, Eduardo.Autumn Sun. Pathè, [London], 2005.

Ori Inu. 2015.

La Vida Es Silbar. 2002.

Yemanjá : Wisdom from the African Heart of Brazil. 2015.

Sayles, John. Men with Guns (Los hombres armados). Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment: Culver City, Calif., 2003.

Schyfter, Guita.Novia Que Te Vea. Desert Mountain Media, [Hawthorne, Calif.], 2004.

Miel Para Oshun. 2004.

Stoll, Pablo, and Juan Pablo Rebella.Whisky. First Run Features, New York, 2004.

Trapero, Pablo. Elefante Blanco (White Elephant). Strand Releasing, [Culver City, Calif.], 2013.

Vega, Belkis.Santa Camila De La Habana Vieja. Distribuido por Kimbara Cine Cubano :, [Hialeah, Fla.] :, 2002.

For Greater Glory the True Story of Cristiada. ARC Entertainment, Santa Monica, CA, 2012. DVD.

Jewish texts:

Agosín, Marjorie. A Cross and a Star : Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

Agosín, Marjorie, et al. The House of Memory : Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America. The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series; Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series. 1st ed. ed. New York :: Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1999.

Agosín, Marjorie, and Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman. Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father. The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series; Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series. 1st ed. ed. New York :: Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1998.

Alexy, Trudi. The Marrano Legacy : A Contemporary Crypto-Jewish Priest Reveals Secrets of His Double Life. 1st ed. ed. Albuquerque :: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.

Artenstein, Isaac, et al.Tijuana Jews. NCJF, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2005.

Astro, Alan. Yiddish South of the Border : An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing. Jewish Latin America; Jewish Latin America. [1st ed.]. ed. Albuquerque :: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.

Barragan, Nina, and Ilan Stavans. Losers and Keepers in Argentina : A Work of Fiction. Jewish Latin America; Jewish Latin America. 1. ed. ed. Albuquerque, NM :: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2001.

Behar, Ruth, and Elizabeth Peña.Adio Kerida Goodbye Dear Love. Distributed by Women Make Movies, New York, 2002.

The Longing : The Forgotten Jews of South America. 2007.

Mr. Kaplan. 2015.

Bronner, Simon J. Jews at Home : The Domestication of Identity. Jewish Cultural Studies ; V. 2; Jewish Cultural Studies ; V. 2. Oxford ;: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2010.

Burman, Daniel S.Esperando Al Mesìas. TLA Releasing, [Philadelphia, Pa.], 2004.

El Abrazo Partido. 2004.

El Rey Del Once. 2016.

Calderón, Sara Levi. The Two Mujeres. 1st ed. ed. San Francisco :: Aunt Lute Books, 1991.

Gardiol, Rita Mazzetti, and Alberto Gerchunoff. The Silver Candelabra & Other Stories : A Century of Jewish Argentine Literature. Discoveries; Discoveries. Pittsburgh, PA :: Latin American Literary Review Press, 1997.

Gerchunoff, Alberto, and Prudencio de Pereda. "The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas." (1998).

Glantz, Margo, and Susan Bassnett. The Family Tree : An Illustrated Novel. London :: Serpent's Tail, 1991.

Goldemberg, Isaac, and Robert Picciotto. "The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner." (1999).

Goloboff, Gerardo Mario, and Stephen A. Sadow. The Algarrobos Quartet. Jewish Latin America; Jewish Latin America. 1st ed. ed. Albuquerque :: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

O Ano Em Que Meus Pais SaíRam De FéRias. 2008.

Herz, Cary. New Mexico's Crypto-Jews : Image and Memory. Albuquerque :: University of New Mexico Press, 2007.

Lispector, Clarice, and Ronald W. Sousa. The Passion According to G.H. Emergent Literatures; Emergent Literatures. Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.

Logghe, Joan, Claire Joysmith, and Arturo Salinas. SofíA : Poems. 1st ed. ed. Albuquerque, NM :: La Alameda Press, 1999.

Martìnez-Dávila, Roger L., et al. Fractured Faiths = Las Fes Fracturadas : Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition, and New World Identities = El JudaíS̕Mo EspañOl, La InquisicióN Y Identidades Nuevo Mundiales. [Albuquerque, N. M.] :: Fresco Books/SF Design, 2016.

Menis, MarÌa Victoria.La Cámara Oscura. Industria Argentina, San Luis, Argentina, 2009.

Mignogna, Eduardo.Autumn Sun. PathÈ, [London], 2005.

Nagarajan, Nadia Grosser. Pomegranate Seeds : Latin American Jewish Tales. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

Nissán, Rosa. Like a Bride/Like a Mother. Trans. Gerdes, Dick. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

Padura, Leonardo, and Anna Kushner. Heretics. First American edition. ed. New York :: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Palou, Pedro Angel. La Amante Del Ghetto. Autores EspañOles E Iberoamericanos; Autores EspañOles E Iberoamericanos. Primera edición. ed. Colonia Chapultepec Morales, México, D.F. :: Planeta, 2013.

Papiernik, Charles. Unbroken : From Auschwitz to Buenos Aires. Jewish Latin America; Jewish Latin America. Albuquerque :: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

Porzecanski, Teresa, et al. Sun Inventions ; Perfumes of Carthage : Two Novellas. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

Sadow, Stephen A. King David's Harp : Autobiographical Essays by Jewish Latin American Writers. 1999.Web

HathiTrust Digital Library, Limited view (search only)

Santos, Cristina. Unbecoming Female Monsters : Witches, Vampires, and Virgins. Latin American Gender and Sexualities; Latin American Gender and Sexualities. Lanham :: Lexington Books, 2017.

Schyfter, Guita.Novia Que Te Vea. Desert Mountain Media, [Hawthorne, Calif.], 2004.

Scliar, Moacyr. The Centaur in the Garden. New York: Available Press, 1985.

Scliar, Moacyr, and David William Foster. The War in Bom Fim. The Americas; Americas (Lubbock, Tex.). Lubbock, Tex. :: Texas Tech University Press, 2010.

Scliar, Moacyr, and Eloah F. Giacomelli. The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

Sherman, Judith H. Say the Name : A Survivor's Tale in Prose and Poetry. Albuquerque :: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

Shua, Ana MarÌa, and Dick Gerdes. The Book of Memories. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

Spitzer, Leo. Hotel Bolivia : The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism. 1st ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.

Stavans, Ilan. Tropical Synagogues : Short Stories. Portico Paperback. 1st pbk. ed. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1997.

---. "Xerox Man." Agni.51 (2000): 145-51.

Stewart-Gambino., H. "Religion in Latin America." Understanding Contemporary Latin America. Eds. Hillman, Richard S. and Thomas J. D'Agostino. 4th ed. ed. Boulder, Colo. :: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011.

Stoll, Pablo, and Juan Pablo Rebella.Whisky. First Run Features, New York, 2004.

Timerman, Jacobo. Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1982.

Yi, Chʻŏng-jun, Julie Pickering, and Program Cornell University. East Asia. The Prophet and Other Stories. Cornell East Asia Series ; 101; Cornell East Asia Series ; 101. Ithaca, N.Y. :: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1999.

Criticism/Secondary Sources:

Bastide, Roger. The African Religions of Brazil : Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations. Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture; Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture. Baltimore :: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Berger, Peter L. The Sacred Canopy : Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. New York :: Anchor Books, 1990.

Chesnut, R. Andrew. Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Cleary, Edward L., and Timothy J. Steigenga. Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Cline, Sarah. "The Spiritual Conquest Reexamined: Baptism and Christian Marriage in Early Sixteenth-Century Mexico." The Hispanic American Historical Review 73.3 (1993): 453-80.

Delgadillo, Theresa. Spiritual Mestizaje : Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative. Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise. Durham, NC :: Duke University Press, 2011.

Elkin, Judith Laikin. The Jews of Latin America. Rev. ed. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1998.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 30th anniversary ed. ed., New York, Continuum, 2000.

Garrard, Virginia, and Virginia Garrard-Burnett. On Earth as It Is in Heaven : Religion in Modern Latin America. Jaguar Books on Latin America ; No. 18; Jaguar Books on Latin America ; No. 18. Wilmington, Del. :: Scholarly Resources, 2000.

Goldschmidt, Henry, and Elizabeth A. McAlister. Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas. New York :: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Greenfield, Sidney M., and A. F. Droogers. Reinventing Religions : Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas. Lanham, Md. :: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Gutiérrez Gustavo. A Theology of Liberation : History, Politics, and Salvation. Maryknoll, N.Y., Orbis Books, 1988.

Hennelly, Alfred T. Liberation Theology : A Documentary History. Maryknoll, N.Y. :: Orbis Books, 1990.

Hillman, Richard S., and Thomas J. D'Agostino. Understanding Contemporary Latin America. Understanding: Introductions to the States and Regions of the Contemporary World; Understanding (Boulder, Colo.). 4th ed. ed. Boulder, Colo. :: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011.

Hispanic/Latino Theology: Challenge and Promise. 1996. Fortress Press.

Isasi-Díaz, Ada MarÌa. La Lucha Continues: Mujerista Theology. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2004.

Keown, Michelle, David Murphy, and James Procter. Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas. Basingstoke [England] ;: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Lyden, John. The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film. Routledge Companions; Routledge Companions. London ;: Routledge, 2009.

Medina, Néstor. Mestizaje: (Re)Mapping Race, Culture, and Faith in Latina/O Catholicism. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2009.

Mills, Kenneth. "The Limits of Religious Coercion in Mid-Colonial Peru." Past & Present.145 (1994): 84-121.

Mörner, Magnus. "Los motivos de la expulsión de los jesuitas del imperio español." Historia Mexicana 16.1 (1966): 1-14.

Otero, Solimar. "Ikú and Cuban Nationhood: Yoruba Mythology in the Film Guantanamera." Africa Today 46.2 (1999): 117-31.

Samuel, Escobar. "Catholicism and National Identity in Latin America." Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 8.3 (1991): 22-30.

Smith, Christian, and Joshua Prokopy. Latin American Religion in Motion. New York :: Routledge, 1999.

Stevens-Arroyo, Anthony M. "The Contribution of Catholic Orthodoxy to Caribbean Syncretism: The Case of La Virgen De La Caridad Del Cobre in Cuba." Archives de sciences sociales des religions.117 (2002): 37-58.

Telles, Edward, and Denia Garcia. "Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America." Latin American Research Review 48.3 (2013): 130-52.

Wix, Linney, and Friedl Dicker. Through a Narrow Window : Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and Her TerezíN Students. Albuquerque :: University of New Mexico Press, 2010.