Reviews in January 2010

LatAmRoB, Volume 4, Number 1


Beaten but unbowed

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If you read one book
about Latin America
this coming year, make sure it is John Gibler’s Mexico Unconquered

 

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Political artist in residence

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The comic artist Peter Kuper has captured the colourful defiance of Oaxaca in the midst of its 2006 rebellion

 

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Women on top

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Sin dejar huella, María Novaro’s Mexican Thelma and Louise, pulls
off one of the most skilful feats in cinema

 

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Land of memories

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Enrique Mayer’s oral history of the Peruvian agrarian reform may have revolutionized its study

 

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Barrier to hope

The tragic story of a young migrant who died in the desert of the US-Mexico borderlands stands as a reminder of injustice along a stolen frontier Continue reading

Poetic irony

An English-language debut for Homero Aridjis sits uncomfortably with the role of Vancouver in the
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La dignidad de los nadies

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A Companion to Jorge Luis Borges

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Sugar

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Latin America and Global Capitalism

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