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AdanGriego@adangriego· 11d

Want to get an early start on your reading before Fall? Check these recent @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social ebooks from/about Latin America. You have over 2500 titles bit.ly/4xCFbhp 📚. @spantoja.bsky.social, @adiazcayeros.bsky.social, @casbsstanford.bsky.social.

AdanGriego@adangriego· 20d

#SanFrancisco #MissionMurals in all their colorful splendor / El #BarrioLatino de la Mision siempre deleita con el colorido de sus murales.

AdanGriego@adangriego· Jul 14

Happy Birthday to Stanford’s Green Library this July 14. See other historical photos stanford.io/2XYenLr. More on the Library’s history stanford.io/2LknJLy. @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social, @casbsstanford.bsky.social

AdanGriego@adangriego· Jul 9

With 4th of July & soccer ⚽️ patriotic fervor over now, remember that America and América = a space beyond the Rio Grande. Or, as Uruguayan poet Mario Benedetti wisely said it, "El Sur también existe," & famously sang by Joan Manuel Serrat tinyurl.com/h7j3dxd7.

Images: Images top/bottom: Daniel Chauce's "Ser Guatemalteca;" Steve Cagan's "El Choco, Colombia;" "Stop the Raids:" by Oree Origino from "Migration Now" (Justseeds); Alejandro Cegara's Migrant family from "Dos muros/Two Walls;" and Delilah Montoya's "Codex #2 Delilah: Six Deer: a journey from Mechica to Chicana."

AdanGriego@adangriego· Jun 26

@stanfordulibraries.bsky.social brings you access to Spain's leading daily El País tinyurl.com/kmsyusrt. Includes special editions for Latin America & 1 in English for the US. Check it Out. @casbsstanford.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social @jskstanford.bsky.social. #newspapers #dailynews.

AdanGriego@adangriego· Jun 25

Want to catch-up on your Mexico-related reading? Check these e-books tinyurl.com/4hrka3my from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social & 1600+ others! @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social

AdanGriego@adangriego· Jun 4

Opening today @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social: #AllenGinsberg Centenary Exhibition tinyurl.com/mr3pcspv. Check it Out!🏳️‍🌈Read abt his 1959 trip to South America in image description OR tinyurl.com/5783bwre.

Nov/1959, Fernando Alegría, Chilean professor of Latin American literature at Berkeley, invited Ginsberg & Lawrence Ferlinghetti to participate in a literary conference at the University of Concepción in Santiago. Familiar w/ a burgeoning literary scene in the Bay Area, Alegría had published one of the earliest Spanish translations of “Howl” in 1957 and wanted to introduce the Beats to a South American audience. Ginsberg’s appearance at the conference and his subsequent poetry readings in Santiago publicized the Beat Generation's work in South America, where its influence would become significant. Ginsberg's work reached a broader Latin American audience through El Corno Emplumado (The Feathered Horn), a bilingual avant-garde literary magazine published in Mexico from 1962 to 1969.

After leaving Chile, Ginsberg traveled to Bolivia and Peru, where he explored Machu Picchu, nearby Cuzco, and Lima before traveling deep into the Peruvian Amazon to Pucallpa. Ginsberg’s trek was inspired by William S. Burroughs, who had traveled to Peru seven years earlier in search of the hallucinogenic vine ayahuasca, or “yage” as he referred to it. In Pucallpa, Ginsberg found a local curandero, who administered ayahuasca in a ritual ceremony. Ginsberg’s journals document in vivid detail his ayahuasca experiences, which he later incorporated into the poem “Magic Psalm."

While traveling in Peru, Ginsberg also wrote several letters to William S. Burroughs about his experiences. These letters, alongside Burroughs’s letters from seven years earlier, were compiled, with some license, into an experimental narrative, The Yage Letters, published by City Lights in 1963. An unusual hybrid of epistolary narrative and experimental cut-up technique, The Yage Letters serves as a travelogue and early manifestation of the counterculture’s quest for expanded consciousness.
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AdanGriego@adangriego· Jun 1

#ColombianElections for president tinyurl.com/5ca47db4 headed to June 21st run off. Check these ebooks tinyurl.com/mrx66asc from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social for deeper understanding of area's socio-political & economic issues of the last 25 yrs. @spantoja.bsky.social @adiazcayeros.bsky.social

AdanGriego@adangriego· May 21

Cuba in the news...great opportunity to check recent ebooks from various perspectives on the island's post-1990 sociopolitical & economic issues tinyurl.com/mwnvx8mt, all from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. @spantoja.bsky.social @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social

AdanGriego@adangriego· May 11

BobMarley en español, Don Quixote in Japanese, translations of Mexico's radical nun SorJuana & Nicaragua's liberation theologian-poet-priest ErnestoCardenal & ++ items selected by Humanities/Area Studies curators for TRANSLATION exhibit. Green Library 2-4pm May 12 @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social

Marley, Bob. Canción de Redención = Redemption Song. Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía, 2015. Four panels of wrinkled card stock folded over one another with fabric and paper collage elements.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, et al. The History of Don Quixote; by Cervantes. The Text Edited by J. W. Clark. Illustrated By Gustave Dorʹe. Cassell, 1880.

Serizawa, Keisuke. Shinpan Ehon Don Kihōte : Zen 31-Zu Shukusatsu. Gohachi, 1978. The “shrunken” edition of Serizawa’s great collaboration with Gohachi, Shinpan ehon don-kihote [New edition: Picture Book of Don Quixote].

Juana Inés de la Cruz, et al. Enigmas. Carpinteria, CA : Solo Press, c2006. Third in the series of artists' books created by poet Glenna Luschei, artist Anita Segalman and designer & printer Robin Price ... Luschei's translation of the Enigmas was completed at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as part of a doctoral project ... fifty copies in the edition"

AdanGriego@adangriego· May 6

Recent ebooks tinyurl.com/ycxpvmhe en español from/about Latin America...all from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social w/ over 1000++ waiting for you! Check it Out. @casbsstanford.bsky.social, @spantoja.bsky.social, @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @dawngarcia.bsky.social

AdanGriego@adangriego· Apr 15

Today is #WorldArtDay. Check some e-books tinyurl.com/zkxjppsw on #LatinAmericanArt from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social & enjoy these colorful #MissionDistrictMurals in #SanFrancisco. @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social

AdanGriego@adangriego· Apr 13

Curated tasting menu from pop-up exhibit Special, Unique, and Rare: FOOD & BEVERAGE @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. Tue 4/14/26 (Hohbach Hall-123 from 2-4pm). Here are some tasty items & so much+. Check it Out! @nafpaktitism.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social @adiazcayeros.bsky.social

Poster for pop-up exhibit Special, Unique, and Rare: FOOD & BEVERAG. Growing, providing, preparing, sharing, and consuming food are all essential for human life. At the most fundamental, biological level, food sustains life by delivering nutrients and staving off hunger. But the ways people eat and the ways they think about food, as well as what people eat -- and don't eat -- are strongly influenced by culture, ritual, ethics, climate, geography, technology, and economics.

Drop by Hohbach 123 (Silicon Valley Archive classroom, Green Library) any time between 2-4 PM on Tuesday, April 14th to partake in a curated tasting menu of Special, Unique, and Rare delicacies from the Libraries' collections that have something to say about FOOD & BEVERAGE.

Libro de cocina. Guadalajara: Taller Gráfica de Comala, 2024. Artist book edition of introductory sonnet and cooking recipes attributed to Juana Inés de la Cruz previously published in 1979 by Talleres de la Enciclopedía de México. Book encased in detachable outer cover with introductory text by Sol Rubín de la Borbolla stitched to fold-out flap beneath ornate protective sheet resembling a napkin with lace doily patterns. Similar sheet tipped in at end of cookbook covering text and small round version serving as support for cover title of Prólogo. Book composed and manually printed by Nacho Gómez Arriola.

Leyva Azze, José Emilio, Tatiana Zúñiga Góngora, (et al). Yerbas Poderosas. Holguín, Cuba: Casa Editora Cuadernos Papiro, 2018.
This work features 12 leaves of handmade paper, carefully bound by hand with thick covers crafted from water hyacinth, incorporating a branch into the upper cover. Ties made from dried stems and jute complete the design. Each page is composed of different plant materials, including plantain, sunflower, basil, onion, sugarcane, corn, garlic, parsley, rosemary, and tobacco. Pages are letterpress-printed, featuring the plant's local and scientific names, associated deities, spiritual powers, and detailed descriptions of its medicinal properties and local uses and includes some with collagraphs by artist José Emilio Leyva Azze.

Rendón, Joel. Print "Canasta mexicana" from Semillas de identidad. [Mexico]: n.d. Seeds of identity includes 4 unique letter press images (Mexican Still Life, Turkeys for mole, Cooking an identity and Basket of Mexican treasures) highlighting Mexican food items (like avocados, chiles. corn and tomato) that have become part of a rich culinary tradition within and beyond Mexico's borders. Copy 14 of 16. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13244260.

AdanGriego@adangriego· Apr 8

#InternationalRomaDay. Check out ebooks tinyurl.com/47567uwu, from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. See also video of gypsy children reacting to 2015 negative definition of Gitano (Gypsy) in Spanish dictionary tinyurl.com/4j6ujzah, & campaign to change it tinyurl.com/ycfca8ar. @spantoja.bsky.social

AdanGriego@adangriego· Apr 7

Lots of full text for you research on #LatinAmerica, all from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. Check it Out tinyurl.com/m5whyby4. @spantoja.bsky.social @casbsstanford.bsky.social @stanfordio.bsky.social

Lots of full text for you research on #LatinAmerica, all from Stanford Libraries. Check it Out https://tinyurl.com/m5whyby4

AdanGriego@adangriego· Mar 30

Check out @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social this Spring Quarter: from databases, digitized maps, historical photos, unique documents, ebooks tinyurl.com/yuujzey4 & so much more. @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social

So many online resources https://tinyurl.com/37a2k33d for your research on Latin American Studies.

The Carta Etnografica from the Atlas Pintoresco E Historico De Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos Por Antonio Garcia Cubas https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/zb031tf7933.

Holy Week procession in Colombia's Choco region, an area heavily impacted during the years of armed conflict, https://stevecagan.com/general-choc.

Rich collection of primary sources, like this letter written by Mexican families to relatives working in the Pacific Northwest during the 1940, never reaching their intended recipients. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4084278

AdanGriego@adangriego· Mar 24

March 24: 50th anniversary of #militarycoup in #Argentina & along came #Dictatorship #DesaparicionesForzadas #DirtyWar #ViolenciaDeEstado #ClandestineDetentionCenters. Check ebooks tinyurl.com/36s3es7v from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social & 300+ in print tinyurl.com/yc6prtbc for more. #NuncaMas

Photos of disappeared persons in Argentina during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship. Image: Defensoría del Pueblo Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires https://tinyurl.com/4pvb425f.

AdanGriego@adangriego· Mar 20

#Chicanas & #Latinas at the forefront in the fight for #civilrights: #JosefinaFierro (1914-1998), #LuisaMoreno (1907-1992) & #ElizabethBetitaMartinez (1925-2021). #WomensHistoryMonth #HerStory #HistoriaChicana #HistoriaLatina #VivaLaCausa. Check it Out @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social

In April of 1938 #JosefinaFierro (1914-1998) & #LuisaMoreno (1907-1992) organized a national convention for "El Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española" in Los Angeles with delegates from over 100 labor and civil rights advocacy organizations in attendance. Photo of Chicana activist Josefina Fierro from Photographs of Josefina Fierro, Stanford Libraries https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4084236.

"500 Years of Chicana Women's History / 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana" by #ElizabethBetitaMartinez (1925-2021) authored by the well-known #Chicana activist has becoem a standard history text. Photo of Chicana activist Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez from Elizabeth "Betita" Sutherland Martínez Papers, Stanford Libraries

AdanGriego@adangriego· Mar 18

Some e-books for your #SpringBreak: lots from Argentina tinyurl.com/4mhc5n3b, Colombia tinyurl.com/5y64juw2 Mexico tinyurl.com/5bnp2tzu & Spain tinyurl.com/4xrnp7k3, all from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. Check it Out! @spantoja.bsky.social @adiazcayeros.bsky.social

AdanGriego@adangriego· Mar 16

Oscars are over but @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social offers you lots of film resources: ebooks tinyurl.com/bde85h2d, film archives, posters & lobby cards, streaming tinyurl.com/ybxcxh75. Check it Out! #CineLatino #LatinAmericanCinema @spantoja.bsky.social @adiazcayeros.bsky.social

Image: Señorita Extraviada (Missing Young Woman), Lourdes Portillo film investigating the brutal rapes and murders of women that occurred with apparent impunity in Northern Mexico's Ciudad Juárez since the early 1990s. Lourdes Portillo archive, circa 1979-2012. Stanford Libraries https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5970969.

Image: Lobby card for 1948 film La Perla. It was simultaneously shot in Spanish & English with John Steinbeck, author of the original novel co-author of the script with acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Emilio Fernández, who directed the film. Stanford Libraries, Mexican lobby card collection, 1937-1977. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4328787.

Image: Rayo del sur movie poster on the life of rebel cleric José María Morelos, key leader of Mexico's fight for independence from Spain (1810-1821). Stanford Libraries, Mexican movie poster collection 1940-1989. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4084773.

AdanGriego@adangriego· Mar 6

Special, Unique, & Rare pop-up CINEMA exhibit: posters, stills, scrapbooks, artists' books, & directors' archives. 2-4pm Tue March 10, Hohbach 123 @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. My selections on #ThePearl: John Steinbeck's project w/ Mexico's filmmakers Emilio Fernandez & Gabriel Figueroa.

This month’s Special, Unique, and Rare pop-up exhibit offers a glimpse into world CINEMA through Stanford Libraries’ collections: posters, stills, scrapbooks, artists' books, directors' archives and more! Drop in any time between 2-4 PM on Tuesday, March 10th, Hohbach 123 (Silicon Valley Archive classroom, Green Library).

The Pearl was simultaneously shot in Spanish & English. This poster marketing it to US audiences highlights John Steinbeck, author of the original novel and co-author of the script with acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Emilio Fernández.

The Pearl was filmed simultaneously in Spanish & English. John Steinbeck co-authored the script with well known Mexican film star & director Emilio "Indio" Fernandez. Legendary Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa and his iconic black & white images earned him several awards, including a Golden Globe and the Venice Film Festival.

Lobby cards for the film #LaPerla highlights Pedro Armendariz, a leading actor of Mexico's golden age of cinema, also star of several US films. The Mexican film poster https://tinyurl.com/6ymz2xbm included credit for Gabriel Figueroa as the cinematographer.

AdanGriego@adangriego· Mar 4

It's #WomensHistoryMonth, see recent E-books tinyurl.com/337z7dpd on #LatinAmericanWomenArtists, all from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. Also 100+ print copies tinyurl.com/54nd9fdt. #ArtistasLatinoamericanas Check it Out! @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social

Guzmán, Victoria & Paula Valenzuela. Desbordar el cauce: diálogos con artistas contemporáneas. Santiago de Chile: Metales Pesados, 2025.

Namorato, Luciana, et al., editors. The Other Fridas : the Lives and Works of Latin American Women Artists. Lexington Books, 2025.

Poniatowska, Elena. The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance: Intrepid Post-Revolution Artists and Writers. Translated by Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia, et al. Radical Women : Latin American Art, 1960-1985. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2017.

AdanGriego@adangriego· Feb 3

#Codex2026 book fair tinyurl.com/mrp3pvpf coming to Bay Area w/ lots of #artistsbooks. To complement the fair see sample works from/about #LatinAmerica & the Latinamerican diaspora in US tinyurl.com/3n4n2pf7, all from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. @spantoja.bsky.social @adiazcayeros.bsky.social

Guerra González, Antonio. Tzompantli. Mexico City: Taller Azul, Arte Útil, 2013. Accordion folded sheet with silkscreen images bound in leather with linoleum printed carving and clasps made of carved deer antler. “This book draws an analogy between the pre-Hispanic Tzompantli (skull rack) and the violence in Mexico of the recent past. It contains the names of the places with the highest rates of violence in Mexico, which are joined together to form a single, endless word. This word is a metaphor for the unity and strength of society; by acknowledging the violence and reading the word, it functions as a kind of mantra that helps heal the pain of the people.” Copy 3 of 10 signed by the artist. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10084297.

Cegarra, Alejandro. Dos muros = Two walls. Manizales, Colombia: Raya Editorial, 2025 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000881702. “Explores the journey of migration along Mexico's borders, emphasizing the barriers—physical, administrative, and psychological—that many face. Over eight years, I documented these stories, witnessing Mexico transform from a refuge into an extension of U.S. immigration policies. This book is a historical record of resistance, resilience, and identity—an ode to dignity and memory. It's my way of honoring those I’ve met and creating a lasting testimony that migrating is not a crime” author’s site https://tinyurl.com/44hhcjmz.

Guerrero Murillo, Marcela and Edinson Montaño [et al]. Hebrando mis raíces[Weaving my roots] https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000290023. A tribute to Afro identity, history, and cultural resistance, narrated from the perspective of curly hair from an Afro-Colombian young woman. A reflection on displacement, memory, and the symbolic power of hair as a vehicle of resistance and pride. The book uses synthetic fiber to resemble curly hair and is designed to be read bottom up in just the same way as Afro hair grows up and up and up. It’s housed in a box, which has (three-dimensional) braided synthetic hair (Kanekalon) woven into a picture frame design, with a braided knob and hook that serve as a locking mechanism. Bound in printed paper wrappers with a wraparound tab to cover the page edges; pages are double-folded with fold at outer edge. Image: Adan Griego. See also artist's website https://www.hebrandomisraices.com/.

romero, gino. The Things We Take (and the Things We Couldn't). [New York, N.Y.]: [gino romero], 2024 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000462458. Box set containing an assemblage of items comprising 4 artworks, including: sculpted cut-paper flower with miniature book attached; small manila envelope containing metal key and metal tag on metal key ring; muslin teabag containing rosary made of rolled paper beads and cardstock paper cross; plastic LED votive candle and pop-up paper house "altar." All objects are enclosed in a wooden box that replicates a shipping crate. The top lid of the box features three travel stamps in black: "VZLA," "MIA," "NYC", and printed label in red and white: "Fragile, Please Handle With Care, Thank You."
"This set of books is inspired by what one is able to take and what one is forced to leave behind. These books explore the political crisis in Venezuela, diasporic grief, and religion through personal narratives and poems"--Artist's statement. Edition size of 16, signed and numbered by artist on box, colophon, and each individual art piece. Image: https://booklyn.org/catalog/the-things-we-take-and-the-things-we-couldnt/.

AdanGriego@adangriego· Jan 15

LBGTQ🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️reports from/about Latin America tinyurl.com/msy4uruh recently catalogued by @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. Webarchive urls available to any & all.

AdanGriego@adangriego· Jan 12

It's film award season, check out Ebooks tinyurl.com/bde85h2d from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social on #LatinAmericanCinema, with lots of film streaming options too: tinyurl.com/3ue3mmry. Enjoy! @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social

Rueda, María Helena, and Vania Barraza Toledo. Female Agency in Films Made by Latin American Women. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Satarain, Mónica, Christian Wehr. 2020. Escenarios postnacionales en el Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano: Argentina - Mexiko - Chile - Peru - Cuba. AVM, AKADEMISCHE VERLAGSGEMEINSCHAFT MÜNCHEN.

Tierney, Dolores. (2018). New transnationalisms in contemporary Latin American cinemas. Edinburgh University Press Ltd.

AdanGriego@adangriego· Dec 12

Today is the feast of the #VirginOfGudalupe, a very special day for people of #Mexican ancestry. See images from #SpecialCollections & e-books stanford.io/3W8rofG on the #VirgenDeGuadalupe, all from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social. @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social

Soneto: “Quién sino tú, dulcísima María, libró con mano fuerte al Mexícano, del acero feroz de su paisano” [Broadside]. [México]: [s. n.], [ca. 1821]. Stanford Manuscripts Collection: MISC 1630.

El Rayo del Sur. [Movie poster, 1943]. Stanford Manuscript Collection: M0945, Box 6

Dávalos, Felipe, and Francisco Serrano. La Virgen de Guadalupe [pop-up book]. CIDCLI, 1998. https://tinyurl.com/mt9npp5j

LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE DEFENDIENDO LOS DERECHOS DE LOS XICANOS https://bit.ly/3VSMfEb by Ester Hernandez, https://stanford.io/2TmmiRf.

AdanGriego@adangriego· Dec 4

This week in 1985 #Maryknoll Sisters #ItaFord & #MauraClark, Ursuline Sister #DorothyKazel, & lay missioner #JeanDonovan were killed by Salvadoran soldiers tinyurl.com/5n7j8c2s. Check tinyurl.com/2cppzve4 from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social for ++. @spantoja.bsky.social @adiazcayeros.bsky.social

AdanGriego@adangriego· Dec 3

#OTD in 1854 Peru's president Ramón Castilla abolished slavery in the Andean country. For more on #Afroperuvian culture see these Ebooks tinyurl.com/bdk75jxm from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social, & more tinyurl.com/4ynve864 Check it Out! @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social

AdanGriego@adangriego· Nov 25

On this #InternationalDayForEliminationOfViolenceAgainstWomen Check out these Ebooks tinyurl.com/5f9knttk from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social

AdanGriego@adangriego· Nov 24

Streaming films from @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social even while on Thanksgiving break tinyurl.com/3h769dcf. Just make sure you authenticate tinyurl.com/yc5527mj. Check it Out! @adiazcayeros.bsky.social @spantoja.bsky.social