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Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988

Beyond the Pyramid

University of Texas Press

How Mexican writers responded to a 1968 student massacre.

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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.

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Women Writers of Latin America

Intimate Histories

By Magdalena García Pinto; Translated by Trudy Balch; Illustrated by Karen Parker Lears
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

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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

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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.

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Woven on the Loom of Time

Stories by Enrique Anderson-Imbert

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.

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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.

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A Saint Is Born in Chima

A Novel

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.

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Literary Bondage

Slavery in Cuban Narrative

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.

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Victoria Ocampo

Against the Wind and the Tide

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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