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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.

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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.

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An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians

Excursion a los indios ranqueles

University of Texas Press

A vivid, firsthand account of a noncombative encounter between Native American and European civilizations.

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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.

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Contemporary Mexican Women Writers

Five Voices

University of Texas Press

Interviews with five prominent Mexican women writiers.

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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.

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Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry

A Bilingual Anthology

University of Texas Press

A collection of over 400 poems by eighty-five Latin American poets.

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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.

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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.

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Complete Works and Other Stories

By Augusto Monterroso; Translated by Edith Grossman; Introduction by Will H. Corral
University of Texas Press

These translations of short stories reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.

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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.

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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.

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Song of the Heart

Selected Poems by Ramón López Velarde

By Ramón López Velarde; Illustrated by Juan Soriano; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
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.

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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.

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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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