Through this book is weaved a story of love and redemption through harrowing disaster.

"[...]head so low that she felt his hot breath on her cheek, and his heavy hand on her shoulder.

This collection displays her mastery of the art of bilingual code switching, mining the riches of two languages—Spanish and English—to produce works that celebrate the beauty and vigor of a Hispanic heritage that has enriched American ...

Through its multi-facetted cultural renditions through time and place, the story of Carmen can be said to have attained the status of a myth.

In Creating Carmen Miranda, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez takes the reader through the myriad methods Miranda consciously used to shape her performance of race, gender, and camp culture, all to further her journey down the road to becoming a ...

In The Fate of Carmen, Evlyn Gould offers a comparative study of the power and variability of this modern myth through readings that examine the cultural dilemmas posed by the story.