A critical study of the novels, short stories, collage-books, and poetry of the distinguished Argentine writer, emphasizing recurring ideas and attitudes and assessing Cortazar's impact on Latin American literature

Product Description: In the collection of interviews with Amonia Somors, Griselda Gambaro, Juleita Campos, Elvira Orphee, Luisa Valenzuela, and Marta Traba, Evelyn Picon Garfield reflects on the lives, careers, and creative expressions of six authors whose cultivation of diverse genres and styles have made a significant contribution to Latin American fiction...read more

Gathers stories about political commitment, persecution, ethnic groups, class differences, misogyny, and oppression

Gathers stories about political commitment, persecution, ethnic groups, class differences, misogyny, and oppression

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Product Description: The Impenetrable Madam X is a naughty, comic romp through the fields of desire and pleasure in 19th century Spain. With tongue in cheek, Gambaro concocts hilariously exaggerated scenes of sexual acrobatics, poking fun at virile prowess, aging femininity, heterosexual hypocrisy and homosexual taboos...read more

'En face bilingual edition of only extant Latin American slave narrative written during slavery era. Original Spanish punctuation, spelling, and syntax corrected and modernized by Schulman; translation is of this new version of text. Introduction, notes,chronology give extensive background. Excellent for undergraduate classroom use. Scholars may prefer original text'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/