Joan Darc
Translated by Sylvain Gallais and Cynthia Hogue
Scuffing up the surface of history by scuffing up that of language, Nathalie Quintane manages to get at the myth of Joan of Arc from the inside, turning it from myth to immediate life…
School of International Letters and Cultures
New Directions
Subtitle
Assessment and Preparation of Hispanic College Students
Edited by Richard J. Tannenbaum, Laura I. Rendón, Gary Francisco Keller, Estela Mara Bensimón, Alfredo G. de los Santos Jr. and Alberto Acereda
"New Directions" serves as a national state-of-the-art in assessment and access as it affects the major Hispanic communities around the nation. The book focuses on two themes: (1) the…
Moving Forward
Subtitle
Policies, Planning, and Promoting Access of Hispanic College Students
Edited by Gary Francisco Keller, Alfredo G. de los Santos Jr. and Alberto Acereda
Equitable access to quality education is key to the advancement of Hispanic communities because education may serve as either a gateway or a barrier to social mobility, economic…
Picturing The Barrio
Subtitle
The Chicano Photographers
Foster analyzes the imagery of 10 distinctive artists who offer a range of approaches to portraying Chicano life. The production of each artist is examined as an ideological…
The Cisco Kid
Subtitle
American Hero, Hispanic Roots
"The Cisco Kid: American Hero, Hispanic Roots" builds upon Francis Nevins’s 1998 book, "The Films of the Cisco Kid." Retaining the original’s thorough, chronological study of the Cisco…
Good Bandits, Warrior Women, and Revolutionaries in Hispanic Culture
Edited by Gary Francisco Keller
"Good Bandits, Warrior Women, and Revolutionaries in Hispanic Culture" is the fruit of a groundbreaking conference that was held in Phoenix in 2009. Following an introduction by Gary…
Triumph of Our Communities
Subtitle
Four Decades of Mexican American Art
With more than 600 full-color images, this generously sized coffee-table book celebrates the art organizations that have promoted Mexican-American art and have served as art education…
Chicano Art for Our Millennium
Subtitle
Collected Works from the Arizona State University Community
"Chicano Art for Our Millennium" showcases more than 120 works of Chicano art and provides a good representation of the art movement for general readers and students. Created in part as…
Volery and Venery in the French Wars of Religion
"Volery and Venery in the French Wars of Religion" is the first book-length study to provide an analysis of literary and cultural texts through the lens of people's perspectives on…
An Early History of Compassion
Subtitle
Emotion and Imagination in Hellenistic Judaism
In this book, Françoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by Greek-speaking Jewish communities of Late Antiquity. Pity and compassion, in this corpus,…