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The Fragmented Novel in Mexico
The Politics of Form
University of Texas Press
This book examines fragmentation as a literary strategy that reflects the social and political fissures within modern Mexican society and introduces readers to a more participatory reading of texts.
Sexual Textualities
Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing
University of Texas Press
A queer reading of literary and cultural aspects of Latin American texts.
An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians
Excursion a los indios ranqueles
By Lucio V. Mansilla; Translated by Mark McCaffrey
University of Texas Press
A vivid, firsthand account of a noncombative encounter between Native American and European civilizations.
Facundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture
University of Texas Press
How various readings of a classic 1845 essay have contributed to the making and remaking of the Argentine nation and its culture.
Contemporary Mexican Women Writers
Five Voices
University of Texas Press
Interviews with five prominent Mexican women writiers.
Birds without a Nest
A Novel: A Story of Indian Life and Priestly Oppression in Peru
University of Texas Press
An English translation of the first major Spanish American novel to protest the plight of native peoples.
Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
A Bilingual Anthology
Edited by Stephen Tapscott
University of Texas Press
A collection of over 400 poems by eighty-five Latin American poets.
The Writings of Carlos Fuentes
University of Texas Press
In this book, Raymond Leslie Williams traces the themes of history, culture, and identity in Fuentes’ work, particularly in his complex, major novel Terra Nostra.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Two Islands, Many Worlds
University of Texas Press
This biography is the first comprehensive exploration of the life and works of Guillermo Cabrera Infante.
Complete Works and Other Stories
University of Texas Press
These translations of short stories reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.
Rereading the Spanish American Essay
Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women’s Essays
Edited by Doris Meyer
University of Texas Press
This book collects thirty-six notable essays by twenty-two women writers, including Flora Tristan, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Rosario Ferré, Christina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska.
Prospero's Daughter
The Prose of Rosario Castellanos
University of Texas Press
The first book-length study of all Castellanos’ prose writings, focusing specifically on how Castellanos’ experiences as a Mexican woman led her to an ethic of solidarity with the oppressed peoples of her home state of Chiapas.
Song of the Heart
Selected Poems by Ramón López Velarde
University of Texas Press
This bilingual collection, drawn primarily from Poesías completas y el minutero, offers English-language readers our first book-length introduction to López Velarde's poetry.
Otilia's Body
A Novel
University of Texas Press
Widely considered Sergio Galindo's best work, this novel dramatizes a sexually liberated woman's obsession with an outlaw lover, played against the backdrop of Mexican history from 1910 to 1940.
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction
University of Texas Press
In this book, Naomi Lindstrom offers English-language readers a comprehensive survey of the twentieth century's literary production in Latin America (excluding Brazil).
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