Collins Memorial Library: SPAN 321: Migration Narratives: Books & Media

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Featured Books

Latinx Teens by Trevor Boffone; Cristina Herrera
Call Number: E184.S75 B64 2022
ISBN: 9780816542758
Publication Date: 2022
In this exciting new book, Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera explore the diverse ways that contemporary mainstream film, television, theater, and young adult literature invokes, constructs, and interprets adolescent Latinidad.
Latinx Literature Unbound by Ralph E. Rodriguez
Call Number: PS153.H56 R63 2018
ISBN: 9780823279234
Publication Date: 2018
Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers...Latinx Literature Unbound, thus, begins with a fundamental question "What does it mean to label a work of literature or an entire corpus of literature Latinx?"
Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks by Trevor Boffone (Editor); Cristina Herrera (Editor); Guadalupe García McCall (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS153.M4 N48 2020
ISBN: 9781496827456
Publication Date: 2020
In Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature, the outsider intersects with discussions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The essays in this volume address questions of outsider identities and how these identities are shaped by mainstream myths around Chicanx and Latinx young people, particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling, underachieving inner-city teens.
Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema by Thomas G. Deveny
ISBN: 1280879963
Publication Date: 2012
In Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema, Thomas G. Deveny looks at film and immigration with a global perspective, examining emigration and immigration films from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Central America, and the Hispanic Caribbean.
Scales of Captivity: Radical Capitalism and the Latinx Child by Mary Pat Brady
ISBN: 9781478017936
Publication Date: 2022
In Scales of Captivity, Mary Pat Brady traces the figure of the captive or cast-off child in Latinx and Chicanx literature and art between chattel slavery's final years and the mass deportations of the twenty-first century. She shows how Latinx expressive practices expose how every rescaling of economic and military power requires new modalities of capture, new ways to bracket and hedge life.

Featured Primary Source Collections

The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry by Cecilia Vicuña (Editor); Ernesto Livon Grosman (Editor)
Call Number: PQ7087.E5 O897 2009
ISBN: 9780195124545
Publication Date: 2009
Here is the first anthology to present a full range of multilingual poetries from Latin America, covering over 500 years of a poetic tradition as varied, robust, and vividly imaginative as any in the world.
This Must Be the Place: an Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965 1975 by Aime Iglesias Lukin; Karen Marta (Editor); Tie Jojima (Editor, Contribution by); Abigail Lapin Dardashti (Contribution by); Harper Montgomery (Contribution by)
Call Number: N6490 .I45 2022
ISBN: 9781879128507
Publication Date: 2022
An oral history of the Latin American artists who moved to New York in the late 1960s and pioneered a new conceptualism informed by their migrant experiences.

Streaming Media

Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
Is a video subscription that delivers almost 70,000 titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
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Provides access to thousands of award-winning films, thought-provoking documentaries, latest festival hits, classic films, TV series, and more. Films streamed on Kanopy are provided to the Puget Sound community for classroom and educational purposes only. Films that have been licensed are immediately available on the Kanopy platform. If a film has not been licensed for use, you may submit a Kanopy request form and the library will consider the request.
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
Contains definitive performances of the world's leading plays together with film documentaries, online in streaming video.
Films on Demand - Archival Films & Newsreels Collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of archival films and newsreels spanning the 1880s to the 21st century.

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