Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential sports books of all time, C. L. R. James’s Beyond a Boundary is—among other things—a pioneering study of popular culture, an analysis of resistance to empire and racism, and a personal reflection on the history of colonialism and its effects in the Caribbean.
Hispanic Authors
This Month Featuring Summer Readings for K-12 From Amazon
PLATERO Y YO / PLATERO AND I (SPANISH-ENGLISH EDITION)
Author: Juan Ramón Jiménez
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 978-0395623657
Gr. 5-7. In the original Spanish and in a lyrical translation, these autobiographical vignettes are selections from a classic prose poem about the poet and his donkey and their remote mountain village. The design is handsome, and Frasconi’s full-page, colored woodcuts are bold and beautiful, expressing the energy and gentleness of the writing. There’s not much story, and few kids will pick up this book on their own, but teachers will find rich material here for creative writing projects in both Spanish and English. The short pieces are deceptively simple, but they have a lot to say about affection and friendship (“We understand each other. I let him go wherever he wishes and always he takes me where it is I wish to go”).
CENICIENTA (CINDERELLA) GABRIELA MISTRAL VERSION (SPANISH)
Author: Gabriela Mistral
Publisher: La Libreria
ISBN: 978-9568209810
Fascinated by children’s literature, Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and Novel Prize in Literature, wrote her own princess stories. Cinderella tale, which dates from1926, is based on the story written by Charles Perrault in the 17th century. Mistral remains true to Perrault’s tale, and in no moment is her story childish. Editorial Amanuta now brings it to life as a picture book illustrated by Bernardita Ojeta, who adds a contemporary dimension to this classic tale. Mistral’s version of this story is a true literary delight, and the present publication is an unprecedented literary event. Award-winning book internationally. The book is in Spanish. A must for getting children interested in literature written in Spanish.
LOS TAMALES DE ANA / GROWING UP WITH TAMALES (SPANISH-ENGLISH EDITION)
Author: Gwendolyn Zepeda
Publisher: Pinata Books
ISBN: 9781558854932
“My name is Ana. Every year, my family makes tamales for Christmas. This year, I am six, so I get to mix the dough, which is made of cornmeal."
And so the years pass, and Ana turns eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen. But every year, big sister Lidia is always two years older. Ana envies her elder sibling and wishes she could do what Lidia does.
When she turns eighteen, though, Ana knows she will keep making tamales and she will be able to do all of the steps herself in her very own factory.
Gwendolyn Zepeda’s rhythmic prose is combined with April Ward’s bright illustrations to create an affectionate and amusing story about sibling relationships that introduces an important Hispanic holiday tradition--making tamales!
ADVENTURES OF DON QUIXOTE
Author: Argentina Palacios
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN: 978-0486407913
“Once, there was a man who went crazy from too much reading. He only read books about knighthood; that was the problem.” So begins this charming retelling of Don Quixote de la Mancha, one of the most entertaining books ever written. Young people will delight in the hilarious adventures of the idealistic would-be knight and his “squire,” Sancho Panza. Ms. Palacios captures all the flavor and irony of the original as the two heroes ride forth to conquer evil. Along the way this knight-errand imagines an ordinary peasant girl to be the noble lady Dulcinea, and gets enmeshed in other cases of mistaken identity. More incidents and adventures are retold in a easy-to-read version, enhanced by six new black-and-white illustrations by Thea Kliros.
Higher Education
This month we are featuring books on Sports, Latino Community and Women By Duke University Press
MARXISM, COLONIALISM, AND CRICKET
Author: C. L. R. James’s Beyond a Boundary
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 147800147X
Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential sports books of all time, C. L. R. James’s Beyond a Boundary is—among other things—a pioneering study of popular culture, an analysis of resistance to empire and racism, and a personal reflection on the history of colonialism and its effects in the Caribbean. More than fifty years after the publication of James’s classic text, the contributors to Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket investigate Beyond a Boundary’s production and reception and its implication for debates about sports, gender, aesthetics, race, popular culture, politics, imperialism, and English and Caribbean identity. Former captain of the English Test cricket team, Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket provides a thorough and nuanced examination of James’s groundbreaking work and its lasting impact.
ENTRE NOUS
Author: Grant Farred
Publisher: Duke University Press
Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-0470-7
In Entre Nous Grant Farred examines the careers of international football stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid South Africa, to theorize the relationship between sports and the intertwined experiences of relation, separation, and belonging. Drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy’s concept of relation and Heideggerian ontology, Farred outlines how various relationships demonstrate the ways the politics of relation both exist within and transcend sports. Farred demonstrates that approaching sports philosophically offers particularly insightful means of understanding the nature of being in the world, thereby opening new paths for exploring how the self is constituted in its relation to the other.
LONG LIFE ATAHUALPA
Author: Emma Cervone
Publisher: Duke University Press
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8223-5189-4
Long Live Atahualpa is an innovative ethnographic study of indigenous political movements against discrimination in modern Ecuador. Exploring the politicizing of Indianness—the right of indigenous peoples to self-determination and political agency—Emma Cervone analyzes how the Quichuas mobilized in the country’s central Andean province of Chimborazo and formed their own grassroots organization, Inca Atahualpa. She illuminates the complex process that led indigenous activists to forge new alliances with the Catholic Church, NGOs, and regional indigenous organizations as she traces the region’s social history since the emergence of a rural unionist movement in the 1950s.
Cervone describes how the Inca Atahualpa contested racial subordination by intervening in matters of resource distribution, justice, and cultural politics.
WOMEN AND MIGRATION IN THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDERLANDS
Author: Denise A. Segura, Patricia Zavella
Publisher: Duke University Press
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8223-4118-5
Women’s migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating. This development gives rise to new social negotiations, which have not been well examined in migration studies until now. This pathbreaking reader analyzes how economically and politically displaced migrant women assert agency in everyday life. Scholars across diverse disciplines interrogate the socioeconomic forces that propel Mexican women into the migrant stream and shape their employment options; the changes that these women are making in homes, families, and communities; and the “structural violence” that they confront in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands broadly conceived—all within the economic, social, cultural, and political interstices of the two countries.
