Product Description: Almost lost to literary history, Felipe Alfau was rediscovered in 1988 with the republication of his proto-postmodernist novel Locos; in 1990 his only other novel, Chromos (written in 1948), was published for the first time, winning great critical acclaim and a nomination for the National Book Award...read more

Product Description: Almost lost to literary history, Felipe Alfau was rediscovered in 1988 with the republication of his proto-postmodernist novel Locos; in 1990 his only other novel, Chromos (written in 1948), was published for the first time, winning great critical acclaim and a nomination for the National Book Award...read more

Product Description: Imagining Columbus is Stavans's contribution to the literature on Columbus. 'My purpose,' says Stavans, 'is to revisit, to investigate, to play with the asymmetrical geometries of the admiral's literary adventures in the human imagination...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Features the writing of Sandra Cisneros, Oscar Hijuelos, Rudolfo Anaya, Julia Alvarez, and others

A collection of memoirs and stories about growing up Latino in the United States features the writing of Sandra Cisneros, Oscar Hijuelos, Rudolfo Anaya, Julia Alvarez, and others. 17,500 first printing.

Product Description: This collection of Latin-American literature features short stories of revenge and hope, love and death, written by established masters as well as by new voices. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the five major Hispanic groups--including Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Central Americans, and South Americans--describes their cultural characteristics, and draws conclusions about their eventual role in mainstream America.

A profile of Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta describes his early years with the U.S. Air Force and as a law student and chronicles his political activism in East Los Angeles that led to the 'Brown Power' movement

Product Description: Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide...read more

'Translations of eight stories and a novella from two books: La pianista manca (1991) and Talia y el cielo (1979; rev. 1989). Work treats identity, literary influence, writer's coming of age: themes Stavans details in an autobiographical epilogue. 'Wonderful fables for the Aeonic Age reader' (Don Webb: American Book Review, June/July 1997, p. 17). Excellent translations by author and several others'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Ilan Stavans's vast and subtle knowledge deftly emerges in this engrossing collection of essays. Fascinated by the idea of Western civilization as a sequence of innumerable misinterpretations and misrepresentations, Stavans covers in these nineteen pieces a broad range of personal and philosophical topics with the unifying theme being the crossroads where politics and the imagination meet. His engaging and provocative topics include the shaping of Latin America's collective identity, Peru's modern history as a bloody battle between Enlightenment and darkness, critiques of Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez, his own fate as a Jew in the Southern Hemisphere, and Columbus's afterlife. (view table of contents)

A winner of the Latino Literature Prize and nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award offers an anthology of the short stories of twenty-three young Latino writers, representing the best of contemporary Latino fiction. Original.

'This en face annotated edition of selected writings of the Mexican poet includes the Respuesta to the Bishop of Puebla (1691) and a broad selection of her poetry and dramatic texts: nine love sonnets; segments from Primero sueäno, Villancico VI to SaintCatherine, and Loa para el auto sacramental de el divino Narciso; and Leonor's speech from the play Los empeänos de una casa. Peden's 'Translator's Note' explains her translation strategy of 'moving backwards' towards the poet's place and time, which skillfully captures the full flavor of the baroque past. Stavans' extensive 'Introduction' and 'Suggestions for Further Reading' provide orientation to Sor Juana's masterpieces and their social and intellectual contexts. Highly recommended for classroom and general use'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Collects many of the writings of Juana Inâes de la Cruz, including a defense of the rights of women to participate in intellectual pursuits, and contains autobiographical sonnets, religious poetry, and love poems. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This engaging study traces the development in Mexico of what Roger Caillois called le roman policier. Both novels and stories are used as self-sufficient artifacts to understand Mexico's tumultuous history since the 1910 revolution of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Contains more than seventy selections, some never before translated into English, by such well-known Latin American writers as Pablo Neruda, Alfonso Reyes, and Carlos Fuentes, covering a broad range of topics from politics to history to literature. UP. (view table of contents)

A collection of twenty stories documenting the intricate culture and lifestyles of some of America's most prominent cities includes stories from such noted authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Baldwin. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Sixteen master translators have chosen their favorite stories from Latin America. Writers and translators include Edith Grossman, Helen R. Lane, Augusto Monterroso, Gregory Rabassa, Alfonso Reyes, Hardie St. Martin, and Luisa Valenzuela...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Hailed as a literary relative of Kafka and Poe by his Italian and Cuban contemporaries, Calvert Casey and his enthralling work have until now remained eclipsed in the United States. This collection brings all of Casey’s powerful short stories and a fragment of an unfinished novel to an English-speaking audience for the first time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A wide-ranging anthology presents the work of more than fifty notable Jewish writers from a dozen countries and from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including Sholem Aleichem, the father of Yiddish literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Cynthia Ozick. UP. (view table of contents)

Product Description: It is commonly assumed that the United States and Latin America, culturally so different, move artistically to very different rhythms. Also common is the assumption that, with rare exception, the literary figures on one side of the global North/South divide have had little interest in the work of their counterparts...read more

Product Description: Producto de muchos años de lectura, apreciación y asimilación del arte hispánico, este excelente volumen reúne las disquisiciones del autor en torno a la idiosincrasia latina en el ámbito anglosajón, particularmente estadunidense, y sus tentáculos a lo largo y ancho de todas las Américas...read more