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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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