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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.
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
José Lezama Lima's Joyful Vision
A Study of Paradiso and Other Prose Works
University of Texas Press
This book, a much-needed critical study of Paradiso, Oppiano Licario, and Lezama’s essays, is an exploration in reading, one that highlights and preserves the essential and persistent contradictions in Lezama’s theory and practice of literature.
A Rosario Castellanos Reader
An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and Drama
University of Texas Press
Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974; this sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction
By Julio Ortega
University of Texas Press
Poststructuralist readings of this author's work.
Cartucho and My Mother's Hands
University of Texas Press
Cartucho and My Mother’s Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico.
Ariel
By José Enrique Rodó; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
University of Texas Press
Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations; first published in 1900.
God and Production in a Guatemalan Town
University of Texas Press
How religion and community economics affect each other in rural Guatemala.
The Exiles and Other Stories
By Horacio Quiroga; Translated by J. David Danielson
University of Texas Press
Thirteen of Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga's most compelling tales.
Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny
The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
University of Texas Press
An English translation of a Mayan history of Yucatan.
Poetics of Change
The New Spanish-American Narrative
By Julio Ortega; Translated by Galen D. Greaser
University of Texas Press
This book brings together Ortega’s most penetrating and insightful analyses of the fiction of Borges, Fuentes, García Márquez, Carpentier, Rulfo, Cabrera Infante, and others responsible for great writing from Spanish America.
Archeology and Volcanism in Central America
The Zapotitán Valley of El Salvador
Edited by Payson D. Sheets
University of Texas Press
This book provides dramatic evidence of the effects of several volcanic disasters on a major civilization of the Western Hemisphere, that of the Maya.
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