Voices of Latin American Life

Voices of Latin American Life, edited by Arthur Schmidt, aims to bring the texture and humanity of Latin American experiences to English-language readers through translations of works that impart direct voices. Through testimonial literature, interviews, and essays, the series will present important Latin American views from the famous and the anonymous that reflect the immense challenges of fundamental issues and of daily life in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
2025 reg

Living in the Crossfire

Favela Residents, Drug Dealers, and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro

Maria Moreira Alves and Philip Evanson

254 pages
6 x 9
3 figs., 7 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-0004-8 $36.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0003-1 $81.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0005-5 $36.95

1778 reg

Lucia

Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman

Robert Gay and Arthur Schmidt

240 pages
6 x 9
18 halftones


PB: 978-1-59213-339-0 $29.95
HC: 978-1-59213-338-3 $71.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-340-6 $29.95

1994 reg

Mexican Voices of the Border Region

Laura Velasco Ortiz and Oscar Fernando Contreras Montellano

238 pages
6 x 9
10 halftones


PB: 978-1-59213-909-5 $33.95
HC: 978-1-59213-908-8 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-910-1 $33.95

1756 reg

My Life as a Colombian Revolutionary

Reflections of a Former Guerrillera

312 pages
6 x 9
22 halftones


PB: 978-1-59213-101-3 $30.95
HC: 978-1-59213-100-6 $81.50

1205 reg

Nothing, Nobody

The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake

Elena Poniatowska

384 pages
6 x 9
1 figs., 24 halftones, 1 maps


PB: 978-1-56639-345-4 $36.95
HC: 978-1-56639-344-7 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0501-2 $36.95

1821 reg

Surviving Mexico's Dirty War

A Political Prisoner's Memoir

Alberto Ulloa Bornemann, edited by Arthur Schmidt and Aurora Camacho de Schmidt

232 pages
6 x 9
11 halftones, 1 maps


PB: 978-1-59213-423-6 $33.95
HC: 978-1-59213-422-9 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-424-3 $33.95

1821 reg

Surviving Mexico's Dirty War

A Political Prisoner's Memoir

Alberto Ulloa Bornemann and Aurora Camacho de Schmidt

232 pages

11 halftones, 1 maps


PB: 978-1-59213-423-6 $33.95
HC: 978-1-59213-422-9 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-424-3 $33.95