Gema Pérez-Sánchez argues that the process of political and cultural transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain can be read allegorically as a shift from a dictatorship that followed a self-loathing "homosexual" model to a democracy that identified as a pluralized "queer" body. Focusing on the urban cultural phenomenon of la movida, she offers a sustained analysis of high queer culture, as represented by novels, along with an examination of low queer culture, as represented by comic books and films. Pérez-Sánchez shows that urban queer culture played a defining role in the cultural and political processes that helped to move Spain from a premodern, fascist military dictatorship to a late-capitalist, parliamentary democracy. The book highlights the contributions of women writers Ana María Moix and Cristina Peri Rossi, as well as comic book artists Ana Juan, Victoria Martos, Ana Miralles, and Asun Balzola. Its attention to women's cultural production functions as a counterpoint to its analysis of the works of such male writers as Juan Goytisolo and Eduardo Mendicutti, comic book artists Nazario, Rubén, and Luis Pérez Ortiz, and filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar.

Gathers riddles, rhymes, folk poetry, stories, ballads, superstitions, customs, games, foods, and folk arts of the Mexican-Americans

Mi Latina: The Bloody Romance By: King Tremayne Mi Latina: The Bloody Romance is an extremely cautionary tale of a man named Steve Davis, born and raised in the U.S. murder capital: Chicago, Illinois. He decides to trade the rough life of Chicago’s Northside ghetto, for a perceived family life in Colombia, only to fall madly in love (at first sight), with one Sonrisa Ciela Jerez, only to find she has a dreadfully sordid past that involves one of the most notoriously vindictive drug lords who may have ever walked the face of the earth. Steve quickly finds himself staunchly defending this woman, immediately starting a war with drug lord Vibora, in the first and only attempt to avenge the wrongs that the love of his life, Sonrisa, suffered at the hands of this monster.

She was framed! Or was she? If only she could remember… Border patrol agent Jocelyn Walker has no memory of how she turned up unconscious with a cache of drugs—or why a gang is dead set on killing her. With evidence stacking up against her, Joss takes refuge with driven DEA agent Dylan Murphy, who guards—and suspects—her. But will finally trusting each other lead them into a trap they’ll never escape?

In this milestone collection, the noted director of the award-winning Bilingual Theater, Joe Rosenberg, has brought together a selection of successfully staged and critically acclaimed Hispanic plays for children. ¡Aplauso! is innovative in its offering of plays in English, Spanish, and bilingual formats, and will be a welcome addition to all school and public libraries.