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.

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

David Magen, a semiretired lawyer, takes on the case of Carmen, a sixteen-year-old charged with prostitution.

In this modern-day resetting of the story on which the opera, Carmen, was based, four teens tell of half-gypsy Carmen, who believes she will become a famous singer, military cadet Ryan's passion for her, and their best friends' efforts to ...