While the literature of today often focuses on the long journey of marginalized Americans toward the halls of power, Blue Blood Elegy explores the other side of the same coin: the quiet, atmospheric retreat of a class that has lost its grip on American leadership. In this elegant Philadelphia novel of manners, William Foster introduces the Whittle family—a dynasty profoundly aware of its aristocratic heritage but in a country that has been at war with itself over issues of class since its ...

Gender, family and sexual relations defined human slavery from its classical origins in Europe to the rise and fall of race-based slavery in the Americas. Gender, Mastery and Slavery is one of the first books to explore the importance of men and women to slaveholding across these eras.Foster argues that at the heart of the successive European institutions of slavery at home and in the New World was the volatile question of women's ability to exert mastery. Facing the chall...

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Whispers of the Soul: Verses from Within is a heartfelt collection of poetry that journeys into the quiet spaces of the human spirit. Each poem is a gentle reflection on love, loss, healing, resilience, and hope—capturing the unspoken emotions that dwell within us all.From the silent strength of Veil of Stillness to the burning resilience of Ashes and Embers, from the fragile beauty of Glass of the Heart to the renewing light of Mirrors of Da...

Mexican-American life, like that of nearly every contemporary community, has been extensively photographed. Yet there is surprisingly little scholarship on Chicano photography. Picturing the Barrio presents the first book-length examination on the topic. David William Foster analyzes the imagery of ten distinctive artists who offer a range of approaches to portraying Chicano life. The production of each artist is examined as an ideological interpretation of how Chicano experience is constr...

First published in 1987 (this second edition in 1992), the Handbook of Latin American Literature offers readers the opportunity to explore this literary history in the English Language and constitutes an ideological approach to Latin American Literature. It provides both concise information concerning particular authors, works, and literary traditions of Latin America as well as comprehensive material about the various national literatures of the area. This book will therefore be ...

One of the important cultural responses to political and sociohistorical events in Latin America is a resurgence of urban photography, which typically blends high art and social documentary. But unlike other forms of cultural production in Latin America, photography has received relatively little sustained critical analysis. This pioneering book offers one of the first in-depth investigations of the complex and extensive history of gendered perspectives in Latin American photography throug...

The City as Photographic Text offers the first comprehensive presentation of photography on São Paulo. But more than just a study of one city’s photographic legacy, this book is a manual for how to understand and talk about Latin American photography in general. Focusing on major figures and referencing widely available books of their work, David William Foster offers a unique analysis of how photographers have contributed to our understanding of the megalopolis São Paulo has beco...

Just as Mexican national life has come to center on the sprawling, dynamic, almost indefinable metropolis of Mexico City, so recent Mexican cinema has focused on the city not merely as a setting for films but almost as a protagonist in its own right, whose conditions both create meaning for and receive meaning from the human lives lived in its midst. Through close readings of fourteen recent critically acclaimed films, this book watches Mexican cinema in this process of producing cultural ...

Since the 1991 publication of his groundbreaking book Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing, David William Foster has proposed a series of theoretical and critical principles for the analysis of Latin American culture from the perspectives of the queer. This book continues that project with a queer reading of literary and cultural aspects of Latin American texts.Moving beyond its predecessor, which provided an initial inventory of Latin American gay and lesbian ...

'1God.world: One God for All' reveals God's one-on-one revelation to the author, Bryan Foster. This genuine revelation occurred in 2016. The title of the book includes the key revelation that there is only 1 God for all people within this world.The specific revelation from God is written. As is the background to its occurrence.'1God.world: One God for All' is written in an easy to read and appreciate format.The author shares numerous encounters with God over his man...

Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday. Also that Phoenix, the Arizona state capital, is a "clean" city (despite a past of police corruption and social oppression). The "real" Phoenix, easygoing, sun-drenched, a place of ever-expanding development and economic growth, guarantees, it is said, an enviable lifestyle, low taxes, and unfettered personal freedom and opportunity.Little of this is true. Phoenix h...