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Narrative: Novel and Short Story
Art, Cultural Studies, Drama, Performing Arts and Poetry
History and the Social Sciences
Current Essay, Literary Criticism and Literary theory
Acosta Peñaloza, Carmen Elisa; Diógenes Fajardo Valenzuela, et al.
Leer la historia: caminos a la historia de la literatura colombiana.
Bogotá: Univ. Nac. de Colombia, 2007, 186p., biblio., notes, tables.
[Literary history. An historiographic approach to criteria used in writing about Colombian literature, e.g.: defining periods, generations and movements; how concepts of nationalism relate to the literary canon. The authors are professors in comparative literature, literary theory, and history at the Univ. Nac. de Colombia; Acosta Peñaloza won the Premio Nac. de Ensayo Académico 1999 for “Lectores, lecturas y leídas: historia de una seducción a mediados del siglo XIX”.]
Bogotá: Univ. Nac. de Colombia, 2007, 186p., biblio., notes, tables.
[Literary history. An historiographic approach to criteria used in writing about Colombian literature, e.g.: defining periods, generations and movements; how concepts of nationalism relate to the literary canon. The authors are professors in comparative literature, literary theory, and history at the Univ. Nac. de Colombia; Acosta Peñaloza won the Premio Nac. de Ensayo Académico 1999 for “Lectores, lecturas y leídas: historia de una seducción a mediados del siglo XIX”.]
ISBN: 9789587017960 $30.00 Order
Alatorre, Antonio
Cuatro ensayos sobre arte poética.
México, D.F.: ColMex, 2007, 483p., onomastic index, notes. Serie Trabajos Reunidos; 3.
[Crit. Includes revised essays “Avatares barrocos del romance” and “Versos esdrújulos”, and new essays “Versos agudos” and “Consonantes forzados”. Examines the evolution of Spanish verse from the 13th c. to the present. Alatorre is known for his influential literary essays, especially “Los 1001 años de la lengua española”. Third in ColMex’s series on peninsular literature.]
ISBN 9681212908 $43.00 Order
Alatorre, Antonio
Sor Juana a través de los siglos (1668-1910): Tomo 1 (1668-1852).
[Crit. Comprehensive collection of essays, verse, scholarly articles, etc., inspired by and in response to Sor Juana’s works. Shows reactions by literati, critics, nobility and fellow church members in Mexico, Spain and Europe. Vol. 1 starts with Diego de Ribera’s eulogies of her earliest poems and ends with an excerpt from Zarco’s 1852 “La Ilustración Mexicana”.]
ISBN: 9789703245550 $54.00 Order
Alatorre, Antonio
Sor Juana a través de los siglos (1668-1910): Tomo 2 (1853-1910).
México, D.F.: UNAM, 2007, 717p., h.c., onomastic, title indices, notes.
[Crit. Hundreds of poems, eulogies, critiques, etc., in response to Sor
Juana’s works, with extensive notes showing how public and critical
attention shifted from her religious verse, to her person, then to her
love poetry. Vol. 2 includes Spaniards Rojas y Rojas and Pelayo,
Mexican Pimental and Argentine Gutiérrez, and Nervo’s 1910
prologue to “Juana de Asbaje”.]
ISBN: 9789703245567 $54.00 Order
Álvarez-Rubio, Pilar
Metáforas de la casa en la construcción de identidad nacional: cinco miradas a Donoso, Eltit, Skármeta y Allende.
ISBN: 9789703245567 $54.00 Order
Álvarez-Rubio, Pilar
Metáforas de la casa en la construcción de identidad nacional: cinco miradas a Donoso, Eltit, Skármeta y Allende.
Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2007, 137p., biblio., notes. Serie Ensayo / Literatura.
[Crit. Examines two aspects of social formation, the house and family, in Chilean literature of the 1980s-90s, as part of national identity construction. On nationalism in Donoso’s “Casa de campo”, transgression of mores in Eltit’s “Por la patria”, exile in Skármeta’s “Soñé que la nieve ardía”, and the metaphor of house as nation in Allende.]
[Crit. Examines two aspects of social formation, the house and family, in Chilean literature of the 1980s-90s, as part of national identity construction. On nationalism in Donoso’s “Casa de campo”, transgression of mores in Eltit’s “Por la patria”, exile in Skármeta’s “Soñé que la nieve ardía”, and the metaphor of house as nation in Allende.]
ISBN:
9789562603911 $25.80 Order
Badano, Maria Valeria
La voz abismada: el espacio y la palabra: hacia una teoría semiótica para la consolidación de un género latinoamericano.
Badano, Maria Valeria
La voz abismada: el espacio y la palabra: hacia una teoría semiótica para la consolidación de un género latinoamericano.
Prol. by Rosa Tizanos. Buenos Aires: Nueva Generación, 2007, 131p., biblio., notes. Voces de la crítica. Latinoamericanas; 1.
[Literary theory. On mythical language and symbolism in contemporary Latin American fiction. Ties in linguistic considerations and goes beyond the genres of Magic Realism, Surrealism, Neobaroque and Indigenism.]
ISBN: 9789879030974 $28.80 Order
Barchino, Matías (Coord.)
Territorios de La Mancha: Versiones y subversiones cervantinas en la literatura hispanoamericana.
Cuenca: UCLM, 2007, 808p., biblio., notes. Col. Estudios; 108.
[Crit. Congress papers, Asociación Española de Estudios literarios Hispanoamericanos, 2006. Analyses of Cervantes’ influence on 20th c. and contemporary authors and dramaturges. In Postmodernism, Boom, other movements; in Cortázar’s 1973 political novel “Libro de Manuel”, Alsino’s 1994 political drama “¡Ladran Che!”, Vallejo’s 1923 “Escalas melografiadas”, Roa Bastos’ 1974 novel “Yo el supremo”, and other works.]
Territorios de La Mancha: Versiones y subversiones cervantinas en la literatura hispanoamericana.
Cuenca: UCLM, 2007, 808p., biblio., notes. Col. Estudios; 108.
[Crit. Congress papers, Asociación Española de Estudios literarios Hispanoamericanos, 2006. Analyses of Cervantes’ influence on 20th c. and contemporary authors and dramaturges. In Postmodernism, Boom, other movements; in Cortázar’s 1973 political novel “Libro de Manuel”, Alsino’s 1994 political drama “¡Ladran Che!”, Vallejo’s 1923 “Escalas melografiadas”, Roa Bastos’ 1974 novel “Yo el supremo”, and other works.]
ISBN 9788484274759 $62.00 Order
Cárcamo-Huechante, Luis E.
Tramas del mercado: imaginación económica, cultura
pública y literatura en el Chile de fines del siglo veinte.
Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2007, 271p., biblio., notes. Col. Crítica y ensayos.
[Crit. On materialism as reflected in Chilean literature, for example, Sarlo’s 1994 “Escenas de la vida posmoderna”, Fuguet’s 1994 “Por favor, rebobinar” and the 1996 anthology and literary movement “McOndo”. On public and political perception of economics, particularly the free market, during and after the Chilean dictatorship.]
ISBN: 9789562604147 $32.20 Order
Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2007, 271p., biblio., notes. Col. Crítica y ensayos.
[Crit. On materialism as reflected in Chilean literature, for example, Sarlo’s 1994 “Escenas de la vida posmoderna”, Fuguet’s 1994 “Por favor, rebobinar” and the 1996 anthology and literary movement “McOndo”. On public and political perception of economics, particularly the free market, during and after the Chilean dictatorship.]
ISBN: 9789562604147 $32.20 Order
Carreño Bolívar, Rubí
Leche amarga: violencia y erotismo en la narrativa chilena del siglo XX (Bombal, Brunet, Donoso, Eltit).
Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2007, 224p., biblio., notes. Serie Ensayo / Literatura.
[Crit. Analyzes the ties between violence and eroticism in 20th c. Chilean literature. On gender construction in the magazine Familia as a context for analyzing Marta Brunet’s 1943 “Aguas abajo” and María Luisa Bombal’s 1946 “La historia de María Griselda”; sexual identity in José Donoso’s 1966 “El lugar sin límites” and gender ideology in Diamela Eltit’s 1986 “Por la patria”.]
ISBN: 9789562604161 $28.70 Order
Cobo Borda, Juan Gustavo (Comp.)
El arte de leer a García Márquez.
Bogotá: Norma, 2007, 306p., biobiblio., notes. Col. Documentos.
[Crit. Collected essays, articles and prologues on Colombian Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez (1928-). Topics include thematic constants and narrative innovations. Contributors include Latin American and other authors and academics from Burgess to Coetzee, Samper, Jaramillo and Monsiváis. Noted critic Cobo Borda is the author of “La narrative colombiana después de García Márquez“ (1989).]
ISBN: 9789584501622 $31.50 Order
Corral, Rose (Editor)
Entre fi
cción y reflexión: Juan José Saer y Ricardo Piglia.
cción y reflexión: Juan José Saer y Ricardo Piglia.
México, D.F.: ColMex, 2007, 312p., biblio., notes. Serie Estudios de Lingüística y Literatura; 49.
[Crit. Congress papers, Coloquio Internacional Juan José Saer y Ricardo Piglia, 2005. Compares and contrasts these major Argentine authors, of the same literary generation, who both first published in the 1960s. Topics include their mutual literary preferences and influences, as revealed in conversations in “Diálogo” (1995); Piglia’s use of epilogues in texts such as “El final de un crimen” and “Plata quemada” (both 1997); Saer’s use of poetic language in “El arte de narrar” (1988). Contributors include Fornet, Premat and Balderston.]
ISBN: 9681212886 $30.00 Order
[Crit. Congress papers, Coloquio Internacional Juan José Saer y Ricardo Piglia, 2005. Compares and contrasts these major Argentine authors, of the same literary generation, who both first published in the 1960s. Topics include their mutual literary preferences and influences, as revealed in conversations in “Diálogo” (1995); Piglia’s use of epilogues in texts such as “El final de un crimen” and “Plata quemada” (both 1997); Saer’s use of poetic language in “El arte de narrar” (1988). Contributors include Fornet, Premat and Balderston.]
Cortazar, Alejandro
Reforma, novela y nación: México en el siglo XIX.
Puebla: BUAP, 2006, 223p., biblio., notes.
[Crit. On 19th c. Mexican narrative and its relationship to the formation of Mexico’s national identity. Includes Suárez on liberalism, Altamirano on mestizaje, and Rabasa on the Juárez proposal. Cortazar correlates authors’ works to their historic and cultural contexts.]
ISBN: 9688639141 $29.00 Order
Cosme, Wanda
Nuevas coordenadas de la literatura puertorriqueña.
San Juan: Isla Negra, 2007, 203p. Col. Visiones y cegueras.
[Crit. Over 90 reviews of contemporary Puerto Rican poetry, fiction and essays, published in the Univ. of Puerto Rico’s literary review Diálogo. On emerging and established authors and their places in Puerto Rican literture and current movements. Writers reviewed include Rodríguez Juliá, Díaz Quiñones, Ríos Avila, Montero, Santos Febres and Lourdes Vasquez.]
ISBN: 1932271899 $24.00 Order
La insondable sencillez: ensayos.
Prol. by Enrique Saínz. México, D.F.: DGE / Equilibrista-UNAM, 2007, Col. Pértiga. [Crit. Collection of Diego’s criticism published only in Cuba. On Mistral, Guillén’s postmodern poetry, early Romantic poet Heredia’s “Niágara”, and other Latin American and European authors.]
ISBN: 9789685011808 $39.00 Order
Reforma, novela y nación: México en el siglo XIX.
Puebla: BUAP, 2006, 223p., biblio., notes.
[Crit. On 19th c. Mexican narrative and its relationship to the formation of Mexico’s national identity. Includes Suárez on liberalism, Altamirano on mestizaje, and Rabasa on the Juárez proposal. Cortazar correlates authors’ works to their historic and cultural contexts.]
ISBN: 9688639141 $29.00 Order
Cosme, Wanda
Nuevas coordenadas de la literatura puertorriqueña.
San Juan: Isla Negra, 2007, 203p. Col. Visiones y cegueras.
[Crit. Over 90 reviews of contemporary Puerto Rican poetry, fiction and essays, published in the Univ. of Puerto Rico’s literary review Diálogo. On emerging and established authors and their places in Puerto Rican literture and current movements. Writers reviewed include Rodríguez Juliá, Díaz Quiñones, Ríos Avila, Montero, Santos Febres and Lourdes Vasquez.]
ISBN: 1932271899 $24.00 Order
Croce, Marcela (Comp.)
La discusión como una de las bellas artes: de la revolución literaria a la literatura en la revolución (1922-1970).
Intro. by Marcela Croce. Buenos Aires: Simurg, 2007, 282p., biblio., notes. Col. Testimonios.
[Literary essays. Four extended, published debates. In 1920s Brazil, vanguardists oppose Modernism and support regional literature. In 1930s Mexico, Cuesta, Villaurrutia, Alfonso Reyes and others discuss nationalism vs. cosmopolitanism. In the 1950s, a Uruguayan-Argentine dialog over Peronism’s representation in Rocca’s “La fiesta del monstruo”. In Chile, Huidobro and others criticize and defend Neruda. Includes an extensive introduction on these dialogues’ literary, cultural and political contexts and significance.]
ISBN: 9789875540958 $31.60 Order
Diego, Eliseo (Cuba, 1920-1994)
La discusión como una de las bellas artes: de la revolución literaria a la literatura en la revolución (1922-1970).
Intro. by Marcela Croce. Buenos Aires: Simurg, 2007, 282p., biblio., notes. Col. Testimonios.
[Literary essays. Four extended, published debates. In 1920s Brazil, vanguardists oppose Modernism and support regional literature. In 1930s Mexico, Cuesta, Villaurrutia, Alfonso Reyes and others discuss nationalism vs. cosmopolitanism. In the 1950s, a Uruguayan-Argentine dialog over Peronism’s representation in Rocca’s “La fiesta del monstruo”. In Chile, Huidobro and others criticize and defend Neruda. Includes an extensive introduction on these dialogues’ literary, cultural and political contexts and significance.]
ISBN: 9789875540958 $31.60 Order
Diego, Eliseo (Cuba, 1920-1994)
Prol. by Enrique Saínz. México, D.F.: DGE / Equilibrista-UNAM, 2007, Col. Pértiga. [Crit. Collection of Diego’s criticism published only in Cuba. On Mistral, Guillén’s postmodern poetry, early Romantic poet Heredia’s “Niágara”, and other Latin American and European authors.]
ISBN: 9789685011808 $39.00 Order
Giraldo, Luz Mary
Más allá de Macondo: Tradición y rupturas literarias.
Bogotá: Univ. Externado de Colombia, 2006, 349p., biblio., notes.
[Crit. On works defining the late 20th c. Colombian narrative canon. Considers García Márquez, Rojas Herazo, Mutis and others, from the tradition and renovation of the 1970s, to their rupture in the 1980s, and controversies since the 1990s. Giraldo is a critic and anthologist.]
ISBN: 9587101332 $39.60 Order
Gómez de González, Blanca Inés
Viajes, migraciones y desplazamientos: Ensayos de crítica cultural.
Pres. by Luz Mary Giraldo. Bogotá: Pontificia Univ. Javeriana, 2007, 138p., biblio., notes.
[Crit. On post-colonialism, exile and testimony; travel narratives. From Flora Tristán’s 1838 “Peregrinaciones de una paría” to Vargas Llosa’s 2003 “El paraíso en la otra esquina”; Rodrigo Parra Sandoval’s “El álbum secreto del Sagrado Corazón” (1978) to Fernando Vallejo’s “La Virgen de los sicarios”
(1998).]
ISBN: 9789586839174 $29.50 Order
Guardia, Sara Beatriz (Editor)
Mujeres que escriben en América Latina.
Lima: CEMHAL, 2007, 571p., notes, biblio., b&w facsim.
[Crit. Selected papers from the 3rd international symposium “Escritura Femenina e Historia en América Latina”, 2006. On colonial period memoirs, autobiography, confessions and feminine identity, including Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; 19th c. romanticism (e.g., Gorrita’s “Andinas”), 20th c. novelistic rebellion (Bedergal’s “Bajo el oscuro sol”), poetry and drama. On gender discourse, feminist criticism and the literary canon, and other topics.]
ISBN: 9789972926464 $59.60 Order
Guerra, Lucía
Mujer y escritura: fundamentos teóricos de la crítica feminista.
México, D.F.: UNAM, 2007, 137p., biblio., notes.
[Crit. On the origins and theory of feminist literary criticism since the 1960s. Analyzes the foundations of and introduces three lines of thought underlying “new feminism”. On 1970s women literary critics; gender, feminist authors in postcolonial society, etc. Guerra, professor of Latin American literature at UC Irvine, is an award winning feminist critic and novelist.]
ISBN: 9703240488 $27.00 Order
Más allá de Macondo: Tradición y rupturas literarias.
Bogotá: Univ. Externado de Colombia, 2006, 349p., biblio., notes.
[Crit. On works defining the late 20th c. Colombian narrative canon. Considers García Márquez, Rojas Herazo, Mutis and others, from the tradition and renovation of the 1970s, to their rupture in the 1980s, and controversies since the 1990s. Giraldo is a critic and anthologist.]
ISBN: 9587101332 $39.60 Order
Gómez de González, Blanca Inés
Viajes, migraciones y desplazamientos: Ensayos de crítica cultural.
Pres. by Luz Mary Giraldo. Bogotá: Pontificia Univ. Javeriana, 2007, 138p., biblio., notes.
[Crit. On post-colonialism, exile and testimony; travel narratives. From Flora Tristán’s 1838 “Peregrinaciones de una paría” to Vargas Llosa’s 2003 “El paraíso en la otra esquina”; Rodrigo Parra Sandoval’s “El álbum secreto del Sagrado Corazón” (1978) to Fernando Vallejo’s “La Virgen de los sicarios”
(1998).]
ISBN: 9789586839174 $29.50 Order
Guardia, Sara Beatriz (Editor)
Mujeres que escriben en América Latina.
Lima: CEMHAL, 2007, 571p., notes, biblio., b&w facsim.
[Crit. Selected papers from the 3rd international symposium “Escritura Femenina e Historia en América Latina”, 2006. On colonial period memoirs, autobiography, confessions and feminine identity, including Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; 19th c. romanticism (e.g., Gorrita’s “Andinas”), 20th c. novelistic rebellion (Bedergal’s “Bajo el oscuro sol”), poetry and drama. On gender discourse, feminist criticism and the literary canon, and other topics.]
ISBN: 9789972926464 $59.60 Order
Guerra, Lucía
Mujer y escritura: fundamentos teóricos de la crítica feminista.
México, D.F.: UNAM, 2007, 137p., biblio., notes.
[Crit. On the origins and theory of feminist literary criticism since the 1960s. Analyzes the foundations of and introduces three lines of thought underlying “new feminism”. On 1970s women literary critics; gender, feminist authors in postcolonial society, etc. Guerra, professor of Latin American literature at UC Irvine, is an award winning feminist critic and novelist.]
ISBN: 9703240488 $27.00 Order
Jitrik, Noé (Director)
Ed. by Toberto Ferro. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2007, 619p., biblio.,
biobiblio., notes, onomastic, thematic, analytic indices.
[Literary criticism, history.
Macedonio Fernández was an author, humorist, and “Creole
philosopher” whose writings included novels, stories, poetry and
journalism. On his works and themes, and on his influence as mentor to
Borges and other avant-garde writers during a key period in Argentine
literature, the turning point between Modernism and Vanguardism.
Contributors include Noé Jitrik, Raúl Cados, Isabel
Strata, Raúl Premat and Miguel Dalmaroni.]
ISBN: 9789500429382 $36.30 Order
ISBN: 9789500429382 $36.30 Order
Laddaga, Reinaldo
Espectáculos de realidad: Ensayos sobre la narrativa latinoamericana de las últimas dos décadas.
Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo, 2007, 158p., notes. Biblioteca Ensayos Críticos; 34.
[Crit. On emerging, experimental Latin American narrative styles, as shown in Mexican Pitol’s 1999 “Tríptico del Carnaval”, Cuban Sarduy’s 1982 essay “La simulación”, Argentine Aira’s 1998 novel “La mendiga”, etc. Univ. of Pennsylvania professor Laddaga wrote “Literaturas indigentes y placeres bajos: Felisberto Hernández, Virgilio Piñera, Juan Rodolfo Wilcock” (2000) and “Estética de la emergencia: La formación de otra cultura de las artes” (2006).]
ISBN: 9789508452078 $28.20 Order
Mistral, Gabriela and Victoria Ocampo
Ésta América nuestra: Correspondencia 1926-1956.
Comp., prol., notes by Elizabeth Horan and Doris Meyer. Buenos Aires: El Cuenco de Plata, 2007, 347p., notes, chrono., onomastic index. Col. Latinoamericana.
[Crit. These letters exchanged between women authors Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo reflect their ongoing interest in South America’s social and political progress.]
ISBN: 9789871228492 $30.30 Order
Muñiz-Huberman, Angelina
La sombra que cobija.
México, D.F.: UNAM, Aldus, 2007, 294p., onomastic index, notes. Col. Ensayo.
[Crit. Selected previously published essays, articles and conference papers, 1966-1996, on Latin American and Spanish literature. Topics include Cervantes as novelist; keys to Sor Juana’s poetry; Torres Villarroel and the 18th c.; poetry and poetics in Juan de Mairena; poets Cernuda, Guillén, Garfias and Unamuno.]
ISBN: 9789703245116 $35.00 Order
Prada Oropeza, Renato (Coord.)
La narrativa de la Revolución Mexicana: primer periodo.
Puebla: Univ. Iberoamericana, 2007, 234p., notes.
[Crit. On the Mexican Revolution historical novel and its relationship to “objective” history. Presents cultural and narrative critiques of Reed’s journalistic accounts in “México insurgente” (1914), Azuela’s “Los de abajo” (1915), Guzmán, Muñoz and Campobello.]
ISBN: 9709720244 $30.00 Order
Schlickers, Sabine
“Que yo también soy pueta”: La literatura gauchesca rioplatense y brasileña (siglos XIX-XX).
Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2007, 264p., biblio., abbr., notes. Serie Historia y crítica de la literatura; 28.
[Literary history, criticism. On Gaucho prose and verse from the late 18th c. to the present. Compares Argentine, Uruguay and Brazilian forms, reviews the genre’s spread among the Gauchos and into other classes, and analyzes structure and content in works such as Hernández’s 1872 “Martín Fierro” and Borges’s version thereof, Lugones’s “La guerra gaucha” (1905), and Bolaño’s “El gaucho insufrible” (2004).]
ISBN: 9788484893271 $36.20 Order
Susti González, Alejandro
“Seré millones”: Eva Perón: melodrama, cuerpo y simulacro.
Prol. by Ana María Amar Sánchez. Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo, 2007, 189p., biblio., notes. Biblioteca Estudios Culturales; 19. [Cultural/literary essay. On Eva Perón’s representation in the media, fiction, biographies, etc., from Borges’ “El simulacro” to the musical “Evita”. On radio, radio theater and other media in the 1940s, including her public addresses. On narrative and visual representation: “Santa Evita”, “Eva Perón, la biografía”.]
ISBN: 9789508452030 $22.50 Order
Torres Caballero, Benjamín
Para llegar a la Isla Verde de Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá.
San Juan: Univ. de Puerto Rico, 2007, 281p., biblio., notes, onomastic index. Col. Caribeña.
[Crit. On important 20th c. novelist Rodríguez Juliá’s use of Puerto Rican colonial history, politics, emigration and popular culture in his novels “La renuncia del héroe Baltasar” (1974) and “La noche oscura del Niño Avilés” (1984), and in chronicles “Las tribulaciones de Jonás” (1981) and “El entierro de Cortijo” (1983). Also on African influence on Puerto Rico’s popular culture. Caribbean literature authority Benjamin Torres teaches at Western Michigan University. He collaborated with Rodríguez Juliá in the edition of “Elogio de la fonda”, “Mapa de una pasión literaria” and “Musarañas de domingo”.]
ISBN: 9780847731923 $26.00 Order
Tupawuni Imoro, Peter
Cultura e ideología en cuatro novelas de Manuel Puig.
Madrid: Pliegos, 2006, 231p., biblio., notes. Col. Pliegos de Ensayo; 190.
[Crit. On popular culture’s function as ideological mediator in the realization of desire, as expressed in the novels of Manuel Puig. Based on Jacque Lacan’s theories of psychoanalytic criticism, emphasizes literature’s role in society’s psychological health. Topics include homosexuality in Puig’s “El beso de la mujer araña” (1981), and the conflict between feminine desire and patriarchal reality in “La traición de Rita Hayworth” (1968).]
ISBN: 849604534X $42.00 Order
Vilariño, Idea
Idea: La vida escrita.
Prol. by Juan Gelman, Ana Inés Larre Borges and Wilfredo Penco. Montevideo: Cal y Canto, 2007, 163p., h.c., large format, chrono., b&w, color facsim., photos.
[Crit. Autobiography. Vilariño won the Premio de Poesía José Lezama Lima 2005. Includes interviews with Jorge Albistur and Mario Benedetti, testimonies by Elena Poniatowska, Alicia Migdal, et al., and selected poetry, correspondence and essays.]
ISBN: 9789974540538 $44.00 Order
Viu Bottini, Antonia
Imaginar el pasado, decir el presente: la novela histórica chilena (1985-2003).
Prol. by Jorge Guzmán. Santiago: RiL, 2007, 247p., biblio., notes. Col. Ensayos y estudios.
[Crit. Examines 20 Chilean historical novels written since 1985. Develops pertinent literary theory, especially on ideological aspects, motivations causing authors to reexamine Chilean history, and the relationship between historiography and historical fiction. Works include Gil’s “Cosa mentale” (1997), Guzmán’s “La ley del gallinero” (1998), Edwards’s “El sueño de la historia” (2000) and Blanco’s “La emperrada” (2001).]
ISBN: 9789562845748 $29.90 Order
Zuffi, María Griselda
Ésta América nuestra: Correspondencia 1926-1956.
Comp., prol., notes by Elizabeth Horan and Doris Meyer. Buenos Aires: El Cuenco de Plata, 2007, 347p., notes, chrono., onomastic index. Col. Latinoamericana.
[Crit. These letters exchanged between women authors Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo reflect their ongoing interest in South America’s social and political progress.]
ISBN: 9789871228492 $30.30 Order
Muñiz-Huberman, Angelina
La sombra que cobija.
México, D.F.: UNAM, Aldus, 2007, 294p., onomastic index, notes. Col. Ensayo.
[Crit. Selected previously published essays, articles and conference papers, 1966-1996, on Latin American and Spanish literature. Topics include Cervantes as novelist; keys to Sor Juana’s poetry; Torres Villarroel and the 18th c.; poetry and poetics in Juan de Mairena; poets Cernuda, Guillén, Garfias and Unamuno.]
ISBN: 9789703245116 $35.00 Order
Nagy-Zekmi, Silvia and Luis Correa-Díaz (Editors)
Arte de vivir: acercamientos críticos a la poesía de Pedro Lastra.
Santiago de Chile: RiL, 2006, 284p., biobiblio., b&w photos, notes. Col. Ensayo.
[Crit. Professors Nagy-Zekmi of Villanova Univ. and Correa-Díaz of Lawrence Univ. offer critical essays on Pedro Lastra (Chile, 1932-). Topics include Postvanguardism, exile and memory, and his “Noticias del extranjero” and “Leído y anotado”. Also includes prologues, speeches and interviews by Lihn, Hahn, García-Lozada, Pellegrini and others.]
ISBN: 9789562845243 $29.30 Order
Navarro Gala, Rosario
La “Relación de antigüedades deste Reyno del Pirú”: Gramática y discurso ideológico indígena.
Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2007, 200p., notes, b&w facsim. Textos y Documentos Españoles y Americanos; 4.
[Literary history. A linguistic and ethno-historical study of the 17th c. document by Peruvian indigenous chronicler Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui. On discursive tradition and genre in his work, incipient configuration of Andean Spanish, and underlying defense of identity and ideology. Also studies authorship and ethno- and colonial history, culture and linguistics, with special attention to contact between colonial Andean languages. with a transcription of the document.]
ISBN: 9788484892731 $30.50 Order
Arte de vivir: acercamientos críticos a la poesía de Pedro Lastra.
Santiago de Chile: RiL, 2006, 284p., biobiblio., b&w photos, notes. Col. Ensayo.
[Crit. Professors Nagy-Zekmi of Villanova Univ. and Correa-Díaz of Lawrence Univ. offer critical essays on Pedro Lastra (Chile, 1932-). Topics include Postvanguardism, exile and memory, and his “Noticias del extranjero” and “Leído y anotado”. Also includes prologues, speeches and interviews by Lihn, Hahn, García-Lozada, Pellegrini and others.]
ISBN: 9789562845243 $29.30 Order
Navarro Gala, Rosario
La “Relación de antigüedades deste Reyno del Pirú”: Gramática y discurso ideológico indígena.
Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2007, 200p., notes, b&w facsim. Textos y Documentos Españoles y Americanos; 4.
[Literary history. A linguistic and ethno-historical study of the 17th c. document by Peruvian indigenous chronicler Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui. On discursive tradition and genre in his work, incipient configuration of Andean Spanish, and underlying defense of identity and ideology. Also studies authorship and ethno- and colonial history, culture and linguistics, with special attention to contact between colonial Andean languages. with a transcription of the document.]
ISBN: 9788484892731 $30.50 Order
Ortíz, Lucía (Editor)
“Chambacú, la historia la escribes tú”: Ensayos sobre cultura afrocolombiana.
Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2007, 404p., notes, biblio., thematic index. Col. Nexos y Diferencias; 18.
[Crit. On the works of Afro-Colombian writers from the Caribbean coastal area. Texts studied include chronicles, essays, novels, poetry and theatrical works, from the colonial era to the present. With essays on polemical themes such as the representation of Negro characters in national literature. Authors include novelist, dramaturge and poet Calendario Obeso (1840-1884), poet Jorge Artel (1909-1994), author of “Tambores en la noche”; and Manuel Zapata Olivella (1920-2004), winner of the 1963 Premio Casa de las Américas for the novel “Chambacú, corral de negros” and founder-director of the literary review Letras Nacionales.]
ISBN: 9788484892663 $39.00 Order
“Chambacú, la historia la escribes tú”: Ensayos sobre cultura afrocolombiana.
Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2007, 404p., notes, biblio., thematic index. Col. Nexos y Diferencias; 18.
[Crit. On the works of Afro-Colombian writers from the Caribbean coastal area. Texts studied include chronicles, essays, novels, poetry and theatrical works, from the colonial era to the present. With essays on polemical themes such as the representation of Negro characters in national literature. Authors include novelist, dramaturge and poet Calendario Obeso (1840-1884), poet Jorge Artel (1909-1994), author of “Tambores en la noche”; and Manuel Zapata Olivella (1920-2004), winner of the 1963 Premio Casa de las Américas for the novel “Chambacú, corral de negros” and founder-director of the literary review Letras Nacionales.]
ISBN: 9788484892663 $39.00 Order
Oviedo, José Miguel
Dossier Vargas Llosa.
Lima: Taurus, 2007, 121p., notes.
[Crit. Eight critical essays, prologues and critiques on Vargas Llosa (Peru, 1936-), written 1996-2006, including one new, unpublished essay. Includes an analysis of Vargas Llosa’s realism in the transition from his first three novels (especially “Conversación en La Catedral”, 1969), to “La tía Julia y el escribidor” (1977); his role in the 1960s literary boom, compared to García Márquez, Fuentes and others; and as narrator/actor in his plays “La verdad de las mentiras” (2005) and “Odiseo y Penélope” (2006).]
ISBN: 9786034006003 $21.00 Order
Dossier Vargas Llosa.
Lima: Taurus, 2007, 121p., notes.
[Crit. Eight critical essays, prologues and critiques on Vargas Llosa (Peru, 1936-), written 1996-2006, including one new, unpublished essay. Includes an analysis of Vargas Llosa’s realism in the transition from his first three novels (especially “Conversación en La Catedral”, 1969), to “La tía Julia y el escribidor” (1977); his role in the 1960s literary boom, compared to García Márquez, Fuentes and others; and as narrator/actor in his plays “La verdad de las mentiras” (2005) and “Odiseo y Penélope” (2006).]
ISBN: 9786034006003 $21.00 Order
Pérez-Amador Adam, Alberto
La ascendente estrella: Bibliografía de los estudios dedicados a Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz en el siglo XX.
Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2007, 198p., CD-ROM.
[Colonial literary criticism. A bibliography that systematizes and organizes the numerous studies written 1900-2006 on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Listed by topic: her works; attributed works; translations; as represented in art, music, cinema, literature and other media; congress papers and articles; critical studies. Complete text also included on CD-ROM.]
ISBN: 9788484890966 $45.00 Order
Pinilla, Carmen María (Editor)
Apuntes inéditos: Celia y Alicia en la vida de José María Arguedas
Lima: PUCP, 2007, 378p., notes, b&w photos.
[Crit. Three essays by relatives of Arguedas’ wife, Celia Bustamante, precede a vast body of correspondence exchanged between them, Celia’s sister Alicia, and various contemporary authors. Provides an intimate view of Arguedas’ life as seen by those who knew him best.]
ISBN: 9972428074 $34.50 Order
La ascendente estrella: Bibliografía de los estudios dedicados a Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz en el siglo XX.
Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2007, 198p., CD-ROM.
[Colonial literary criticism. A bibliography that systematizes and organizes the numerous studies written 1900-2006 on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Listed by topic: her works; attributed works; translations; as represented in art, music, cinema, literature and other media; congress papers and articles; critical studies. Complete text also included on CD-ROM.]
ISBN: 9788484890966 $45.00 Order
Pinilla, Carmen María (Editor)
Apuntes inéditos: Celia y Alicia en la vida de José María Arguedas
Lima: PUCP, 2007, 378p., notes, b&w photos.
[Crit. Three essays by relatives of Arguedas’ wife, Celia Bustamante, precede a vast body of correspondence exchanged between them, Celia’s sister Alicia, and various contemporary authors. Provides an intimate view of Arguedas’ life as seen by those who knew him best.]
ISBN: 9972428074 $34.50 Order
Portugal, José Alberto
Las novelas de José María Arguedas: una incursión en lo inarticulado.
Lima: PUCP, 2007, 488p., biblio., notes.
[Crit. Arguedas, a key figure in transcultural Peruvian literature, incorporated Quechua and other indigenous elements into his novels “Yawar fiesta” (1941), “Los ríos profundos” (1958, Premio Nacional de Novela) and “Todas las sangres” (1964). On stylization, use of myth and language, and other facets. Portugal wrote his doctoral thesis on “Los ríos profundos”.]
ISBN: 9789972428012 $56.00 Order
Las novelas de José María Arguedas: una incursión en lo inarticulado.
Lima: PUCP, 2007, 488p., biblio., notes.
[Crit. Arguedas, a key figure in transcultural Peruvian literature, incorporated Quechua and other indigenous elements into his novels “Yawar fiesta” (1941), “Los ríos profundos” (1958, Premio Nacional de Novela) and “Todas las sangres” (1964). On stylization, use of myth and language, and other facets. Portugal wrote his doctoral thesis on “Los ríos profundos”.]
ISBN: 9789972428012 $56.00 Order
Prada Oropeza, Renato (Coord.)
La narrativa de la Revolución Mexicana: primer periodo.
Puebla: Univ. Iberoamericana, 2007, 234p., notes.
[Crit. On the Mexican Revolution historical novel and its relationship to “objective” history. Presents cultural and narrative critiques of Reed’s journalistic accounts in “México insurgente” (1914), Azuela’s “Los de abajo” (1915), Guzmán, Muñoz and Campobello.]
ISBN: 9709720244 $30.00 Order
Roncagliolo, Santiago (Peru, 1975-)
Jet Lag.
Prol. by Basilio Baltasar. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2007, 270p. El boomeran(g).
[Essay. Collected entries from the author's blog “El Boomeran(g)” on contemporary authors, cultural and news events. Winner of the Premio Alfaguara 2006 for “Abril rojo”, Roncagliolo belongs to a new generation of authors influenced more by film and the media than by magic realism. He writes political comentary for El País and other South American newspapers.]
ISBN: 9788420471662 $34.70 Order
Prol. by Basilio Baltasar. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2007, 270p. El boomeran(g).
[Essay. Collected entries from the author's blog “El Boomeran(g)” on contemporary authors, cultural and news events. Winner of the Premio Alfaguara 2006 for “Abril rojo”, Roncagliolo belongs to a new generation of authors influenced more by film and the media than by magic realism. He writes political comentary for El País and other South American newspapers.]
ISBN: 9788420471662 $34.70 Order
Sánchez-Blake, Elvira and Julie Lirot (Editors)
El universo literario de Laura Restrepo.
Intro. by Carmiña Navia. Bogotá: Taurus, 2007, 383p., biblio., biobiblio., notes.
[Crit. 22 texts on novelist and political activist Restrepo (1950-), member of Colombia’s 1960-1970’s literary generation. Divided into sections in reference to her novels: on history, utopia in “La isla de la pasión” (1989); autobiography in “Leopardo al sol” (1993, Premio Arzobispo San Clemente); characterization, social segmentation in “Dulce compañía” (1995, Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz); plot analysis, women protagonists in “La novia oscura” (1999); historic discourse, identity, archetypes in “La multitud errante” (2001); and social structure, urban space, violence in “Delirio” (2004, Premios Alfaguara, Nacional de Literatura).]
ISBN: 9789587045734 $29.80 Order
El universo literario de Laura Restrepo.
Intro. by Carmiña Navia. Bogotá: Taurus, 2007, 383p., biblio., biobiblio., notes.
[Crit. 22 texts on novelist and political activist Restrepo (1950-), member of Colombia’s 1960-1970’s literary generation. Divided into sections in reference to her novels: on history, utopia in “La isla de la pasión” (1989); autobiography in “Leopardo al sol” (1993, Premio Arzobispo San Clemente); characterization, social segmentation in “Dulce compañía” (1995, Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz); plot analysis, women protagonists in “La novia oscura” (1999); historic discourse, identity, archetypes in “La multitud errante” (2001); and social structure, urban space, violence in “Delirio” (2004, Premios Alfaguara, Nacional de Literatura).]
ISBN: 9789587045734 $29.80 Order
“Que yo también soy pueta”: La literatura gauchesca rioplatense y brasileña (siglos XIX-XX).
Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2007, 264p., biblio., abbr., notes. Serie Historia y crítica de la literatura; 28.
[Literary history, criticism. On Gaucho prose and verse from the late 18th c. to the present. Compares Argentine, Uruguay and Brazilian forms, reviews the genre’s spread among the Gauchos and into other classes, and analyzes structure and content in works such as Hernández’s 1872 “Martín Fierro” and Borges’s version thereof, Lugones’s “La guerra gaucha” (1905), and Bolaño’s “El gaucho insufrible” (2004).]
ISBN: 9788484893271 $36.20 Order
Susti González, Alejandro
“Seré millones”: Eva Perón: melodrama, cuerpo y simulacro.
Prol. by Ana María Amar Sánchez. Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo, 2007, 189p., biblio., notes. Biblioteca Estudios Culturales; 19. [Cultural/literary essay. On Eva Perón’s representation in the media, fiction, biographies, etc., from Borges’ “El simulacro” to the musical “Evita”. On radio, radio theater and other media in the 1940s, including her public addresses. On narrative and visual representation: “Santa Evita”, “Eva Perón, la biografía”.]
ISBN: 9789508452030 $22.50 Order
Torres Caballero, Benjamín
Para llegar a la Isla Verde de Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá.
San Juan: Univ. de Puerto Rico, 2007, 281p., biblio., notes, onomastic index. Col. Caribeña.
[Crit. On important 20th c. novelist Rodríguez Juliá’s use of Puerto Rican colonial history, politics, emigration and popular culture in his novels “La renuncia del héroe Baltasar” (1974) and “La noche oscura del Niño Avilés” (1984), and in chronicles “Las tribulaciones de Jonás” (1981) and “El entierro de Cortijo” (1983). Also on African influence on Puerto Rico’s popular culture. Caribbean literature authority Benjamin Torres teaches at Western Michigan University. He collaborated with Rodríguez Juliá in the edition of “Elogio de la fonda”, “Mapa de una pasión literaria” and “Musarañas de domingo”.]
ISBN: 9780847731923 $26.00 Order
Tupawuni Imoro, Peter
Cultura e ideología en cuatro novelas de Manuel Puig.
Madrid: Pliegos, 2006, 231p., biblio., notes. Col. Pliegos de Ensayo; 190.
[Crit. On popular culture’s function as ideological mediator in the realization of desire, as expressed in the novels of Manuel Puig. Based on Jacque Lacan’s theories of psychoanalytic criticism, emphasizes literature’s role in society’s psychological health. Topics include homosexuality in Puig’s “El beso de la mujer araña” (1981), and the conflict between feminine desire and patriarchal reality in “La traición de Rita Hayworth” (1968).]
ISBN: 849604534X $42.00 Order
Vilariño, Idea
Idea: La vida escrita.
Prol. by Juan Gelman, Ana Inés Larre Borges and Wilfredo Penco. Montevideo: Cal y Canto, 2007, 163p., h.c., large format, chrono., b&w, color facsim., photos.
[Crit. Autobiography. Vilariño won the Premio de Poesía José Lezama Lima 2005. Includes interviews with Jorge Albistur and Mario Benedetti, testimonies by Elena Poniatowska, Alicia Migdal, et al., and selected poetry, correspondence and essays.]
ISBN: 9789974540538 $44.00 Order
Viu Bottini, Antonia
Imaginar el pasado, decir el presente: la novela histórica chilena (1985-2003).
Prol. by Jorge Guzmán. Santiago: RiL, 2007, 247p., biblio., notes. Col. Ensayos y estudios.
[Crit. Examines 20 Chilean historical novels written since 1985. Develops pertinent literary theory, especially on ideological aspects, motivations causing authors to reexamine Chilean history, and the relationship between historiography and historical fiction. Works include Gil’s “Cosa mentale” (1997), Guzmán’s “La ley del gallinero” (1998), Edwards’s “El sueño de la historia” (2000) and Blanco’s “La emperrada” (2001).]
ISBN: 9789562845748 $29.90 Order
Zuffi, María Griselda
Demasiado real: Los excesos de la historia en la escritura de Tomás Eloy Martínez (1973-1995).
Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2007, 92p., notes, biblio. Nueva crítica hispanoamericana.
[Crit. Analyzes Boom author Eloy Martínez (Argentina, 1934-) in his nontraditional, non-idealized treatment of 20th c. Argentine political history, especially Peronism and the 1970s dictatorships. On his novels “La pasión según Trelew” (1973), “La novela de Perón” (1985), “La mano del amo” (1991) and “Santa Evita” (1995).]
Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2007, 92p., notes, biblio. Nueva crítica hispanoamericana.
[Crit. Analyzes Boom author Eloy Martínez (Argentina, 1934-) in his nontraditional, non-idealized treatment of 20th c. Argentine political history, especially Peronism and the 1970s dictatorships. On his novels “La pasión según Trelew” (1973), “La novela de Perón” (1985), “La mano del amo” (1991) and “Santa Evita” (1995).]
ISBN: 9789500517133 $25.80 Order
Zúñiga, Dulce María (Coord.)
Convergencias: ensayos de literatura comparada.
Guadalajara: CUCSH-UDG, 2007, 279p., biblio., notes, tables, b&w ill.
[Crit. Comparative literature. Noted essayists such as Jitrik, Aceves, Ulloa and Zúñiga compare Cortázar to Dávila, Aristotle’s poetry to modern screenplays, and discuss Rulfo, Cernuda, Yánez. Topics include novels vs. historical novels, homosexuality in Mexican fiction, and archetypal heroes.]
ISBN: 9789702712114 $33.00 Order