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The Dissenting Voice
The New Essay of Spanish America, 1960-1985
University of Texas Press
How political, social, and aesthetic changes made their way into the essayistic writings of twenty-six Spanish American intellectuals.
Satire in Colonial Spanish America
Turning the New World Upside Down
University of Texas Press
This study explores the work of eight satirists of the colonial period and shows how their literary innovations had a formative influence on the development of the modern Latin American novel, essay, and autobiography.
Latin America's New Historical Novel
University of Texas Press
In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works.
Conquest of the New Word
Experimental Fiction and Translation in the Americas
By Johnny Payne
University of Texas Press
In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne offers new readings that detail the specific, historical relation between experimental fiction and various authors’ careful, deliberate deformations and reformations of the political r
Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay
Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Edited by Doris Meyer
University of Texas Press
This volume of twenty-one original studies by noted experts in Latin American literature seeks to recover and celebrate the accomplishments of Latin American women essayists.
The Colombian Novel, 1844-1987
University of Texas Press
An overview of seventeen major authors and more than one hundred works spanning the years 1844 to 1987.
Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector
The Différance of Desire
By Earl E. Fitz
University of Texas Press
This book argues that poststructuralism offers important and revealing insights into all aspects of Lispector’s writing,
Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga?
A B-Novel
By Caio Fernando Abreu; Translated by Adria Frizzi
University of Texas Press
In this novel, a forty-year-old Brazilian journalist reduced to living in a dilapidated building inhabited by a bizarre human fauna is called upon to write the story of Dulce Veiga, a famous singer who disappeared twenty years earlier.
Borges and His Fiction
A Guide to His Mind and Art
University of Texas Press
An introduction to the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer.
Xicoténcatl
An anonymous historical novel about the events leading up to the conquest of the Aztec empire
Edited by Guillermo Castillo-Feliú
University of Texas Press
Written as Spain’s New World colonies fought for their independence in the early nineteenth century, Xicoténcatl stands out as a beautiful exposition of an idealized New World about to undergo the tremendous changes wrought by the Spanish Conquest.
Modernismo, Modernity and the Development of Spanish American Literature
University of Texas Press
Cathy L . Jrade undertakes a full exploration of the modernista project and shows how it provided a foundation for trends and movements that have continued to shape literary production in Spanish America throughout the twentieth century.
The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing
University of Texas Press
Naomi Lindstrom examines five concepts that are currently the focus of intense debate among Latin American writers and thinkers.
Lost in the City: Tree of Desire and Serafin
Two novels by Ignacio Solares
University of Texas Press
These two novels by one of Mexico’s premier writers illuminate many aspects of contemporary Mexican life.
The Shattered Mirror
Representations of Women in Mexican Literature
University of Texas Press
How the popular images of women in Mexican literature have changed in the 20th century.
Nahuat Myth and Social Structure
University of Texas Press
This book brings together an important collection of modern-day Aztec Indian folktales and vividly demonstrates how these tales have been shaped by the social structure of the communities in which they are told.
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).
The House on the Beach
A Novel
University of Texas Press
This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin America's, major writers of the twentieth century.
Mexican Literature
A History
Edited by David William Foster
University of Texas Press
This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective.
The Writing of Elena Poniatowska
Engaging Dialogues
University of Texas Press
Readings of Poniatowska's work from a variety of critical approaches.
The War of the Fatties and Other Stories from Aztec History
By Salvador Novo; Translated by Michael Alderson
University of Texas Press
This collection of nearly all of Salvador Novo's Aztec-related writings,taken together, provides a delightful introduction to Novo’s later works and a light-hearted, historically accurate introduction to Aztec culture.
Senhora
Profile of a Woman
By José de Alencar; Translated by Catarina Feldmann Edinger
University of Texas Press
In this Brazilian novel, originally published in 1875, the heroine uses newly inherited wealth to "buy back" and exact revenge on the fiancé who had left her for a woman with a more enticing dowry.
Iphigenia
(The diary of a young lady who wrote because she was bored)
By Teresa de la Parra; Translated by Bertie Acker
University of Texas Press
A novel about a passionate woman who lacks the money to establish herself in the liberated, bohemian society she craves.
Latin America in Caricature
University of Texas Press
An exploration of more than one hundred years of hemispheric relations through political cartoons collected from leading U.S. periodicals from the 1860s through 1980.
In Order to Talk with the Dead
Selected Poems of Jorge Teillier
By Jorge Teillier; Translated by Carolyne Wright
University of Texas Press
This English-Spanish bilingual anthology introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a representative selection of his best work from all phases of his career.
Sab and Autobiography
By Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga; Translated by Nina M. Scott
University of Texas Press
A controversial 19th-century Cuban novel about the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter, together with a novella about an intelligent, flamboyant woman struggling against the restrictions on her gender.
Neruda
An Intimate Biography
By Volodia Teitelboim; Translated by Beverly J. Delong-Tonelli
University of Texas Press
A biography of the noted Chilean poet.
Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988
Beyond the Pyramid
University of Texas Press
How Mexican writers responded to a 1968 student massacre.
La Malinche in Mexican Literature
From History to Myth
University of Texas Press
This is the first serious study tracing La Malinche in texts from the conquest period to the present day.
Women Writers of Latin America
Intimate Histories
University of Texas Press
In these revealing interviews, first published in 1988 as Historias íntimas, ten of Latin America's most important women writers explore this question with scholar Magdalena García Pinto, discussing the personal, social, and political factors that have sh
Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing
University of Texas Press
In this study, David William Foster examines more than two dozen texts that deal with gay and lesbian topics, drawing from them significant insights into the relationship between homosexuality and society in different Latin American countries and time pe
Village of the Ghost Bells
A Novel
By Edla Van Steen; Translated by David George
University of Texas Press
This novel tells the story of a would-be utopian community built on an old plantation of the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil.
Woven on the Loom of Time
Stories by Enrique Anderson-Imbert
By Enrique Anderson-Imbert; Translated by Carleton Vail and Pamela Edwards-Mondragón; Introduction by Ester de Izaguirre
University of Texas Press
In this anthology, the translators have chosen stories from the period 1965 to 1985 to introduce English-speaking readers to the creative work of Enrique Anderson-Imbert.
Alejo Carpentier
The Pilgrim at Home
University of Texas Press
This book covers the life and works of the great Cuban novelist, offering a new perspective on the relationship between the two.
A Saint Is Born in Chima
A Novel
By Manuel Zapata Olivella; Translated by Thomas E. Kooreman
University of Texas Press
This novel, published in 1963 as En Chimá nace un santo, makes important connections between the frustrations of poverty and the excesses of religious fanaticism.
Literary Bondage
Slavery in Cuban Narrative
By William Luis
University of Texas Press
An exploration of why antislavery narrative remained a viable means of expression in Cuban literature a hundred years after slavery's abolishment.
Victoria Ocampo
Against the Wind and the Tide
By Doris Meyer
University of Texas Press
In this first biographical study in English of “la superbe Argentine,” originally published in 1979, Doris Meyer considers Victoria Ocampo’s role in introducing European and North American writers and artists to the South American public—through the pages
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