Arturo A Arias

Control de Versiones de Software con GIT (Spanish Edition)

El control de versión es el cuaderno de laboratorio del mundo digital: es lo que los profesionales utilizan para mantener el registro de lo que hicieron y para colaborar con otras personas. Todo gran proyecto de desarrollo de software depende de él, y varios programadores también lo utilizan para su...

The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy

Latin American Studies A balanced appraisal of the bitter debate surrounding the autobiography of Guatemala's 1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Guatemalan indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchú first came to international prominence following the 1983 publication of her memoir, I, Rigoberta Men...

Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America

Central Americans are one of the largest Latino population groups in the United States. Yet, Arturo Arias argues, the cultural production of Central Americans remains little known to North Americans.In Taking Their Word, Arias complicates notions of the cultural production of Central America, from M...

Our Americas: Political and Cultural Imaginings (Radical History Review (Duke University Press))

Named 2004 Best Special Issue by the Council of Editors of Learned JournalsThis special issue of Radical History Review takes as its inspiration Cuban writer and revolutionary José Martí’s famous 1891 essay “Our America.” Focusing on Martí’s appropriation of the term “America”—used to refer to a tra...

Sopa de caracol (Spanish Edition)

An ex-revolutionary has summoned his friendships to an exquisite supper. With each course, the protagonist offers a chapter of his military history. While the wine, the jokes and the sharp pace evolve, the ex-revolutionary becomes the main course, ready to be tasted and devoured. Description in Span...

Technofuturos: Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies

Technofuturos offers a critical and innovative exploration of the forms of representation found in Latina/o studies. The editors, Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin Laó-Montes, challenge conventional notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by historicizing and differentiating the multi...

The Other Latinos (Series on Latin American Studies)

The Other Latinos addresses an important topic: the presence in the United States of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants from countries other than Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Focusing on the Andes, Central America, and Brazil, the book brings together essays by a number of accomplished schol...

Rattlesnake

Set in '80s Guatemala, this suspenseful spy story succeeds as a thriller, as a love story, and as an indictment of human rights violations in that troubled country. Tom Wright is a CIA agent who has been sent to Guatemala to rescue Mr. Gray, an Australian banker who has allegedly been abducted by th...

The Rigoberta Menchu Controversy

The Rigoberta Menchu Controversy

Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America

Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America

A Study of Liberation Discourse: The Semantics of Opposition in Freire and Gutierrez

After the Bombs: A Novel

After the Bombs

Rattlesnake

Arturo Arias

Arturo Arias (Guatemala city, 1950) is a Guatemalan novelist and critic, who is currently a professor of 20th-century Spanish-American Literature at the ...