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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.
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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