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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.
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