latin american literature

A critical history of Latin American literature from the Conquest to the late twentieth century, which examines the influence of European culture and discusses the historical, political, and economic contexts in which literary works appeared. Includes primary and secondary bibliographies listing Spanish texts and English editions.

"Women in exile disrupt assumptions about exile, belonging, home and identity. For many women exiles, home represents less a place of belonging and more a point of departure, and exile becomes a creative site of becoming, rather than an unsettling state of errancy. Exile may provide propitious circumstance for women to renegotiate identities far from the strictures of home, and to appropriating new spaces of freedom in mobility. Through a feminist politics of place, displacement and subjectivity, this comparative study analyses the novels of key contemporary Francophone and Latin American writers Nancy Huston, Linda L?e, Malika Mokeddem, Cristina Peri Rossi, Laura Restrepo, and Cristina Siscar to identify a new nomadic subjectivity in the lives and works of transnational women today"--Source other than the Library of Congress.

Presents English translations of short stories by thirty-one Latin American women authors from fourteen countries, including selections by Isabel Allende, Carmen Naranjo, and Amparo Davila.

Contains alphabetically arranged articles that examine the lives, works, and literary contributions of thirty-six Latin American and Brazilian authors, most born between 1909 and 1924, representing the genres of chronicle, poetry, theater, prose, fiction, and essay.

An anthology of writing by Latin American women, drawn from the previous twelve volumes of the Secret Weavers series; grouped in four categories which address the topics of identity and difference, women and gender, the politics of domination, and women and language.

Latin American fiction has finally come into its own throughout the world. Collected in this brilliant volume are thirty-five of the finest writers of this century.