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A vivid novel about the solitary life of a peasant family in a harsh and unforgiving land, austerely told by a classic Brazilian writer.

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

A controversial 19th-century Cuban novel about the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter, together with a novella about an intelligent, flamboyant woman struggling against the restrictions on her gender.

The ancient Aztecs dwelt at the center of a dazzling and complex cosmos. This book represents a dramatic overview of the Aztec conception of the universe and the gods who populated it - Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent; Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror; and Huitzilopochtli, the Southern Hummingbird.

This volume explores the interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America through the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians.

A towering Mexican thinker discusses both Latin America's internal problems and its relations with the United States, Russia, and the rest of the world.

A biting commentary on the follies of mankind, by one of Mexico's outstanding authors.

One of the most important historical sources for a major part of Simon Bolivar's life.

This book covers the life and works of the great Cuban novelist, offering a new perspective on the relationship between the two.

Cartucho and My Mother's Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico.

Poststructuralist readings of this author's work.

Interviews with five prominent Mexican women writiers.

This is the first serious study tracing La Malinche in texts from the conquest period to the present day.

These translations of short stories reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.

This biography is the first comprehensive exploration of the life and works of Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.

This book brings together Ortega's most penetrating and insightful analyses of the fiction of Borges, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Carpentier, Rulfo, Cabrera Infante, and others responsible for great writing from Spanish America.

This collection of nearly all of Salvador Novo's Aztec-related writings,taken together, provides a delightful introduction to Novo's later works and a light-hearted, historically accurate introduction to Aztec culture.

This study of Dario's poetry demonstrates that esoteric tradition is central to Modernism and that an understanding of this centrality clarifies both the nature of the movement and its relationship to earlier European literature.

A fresh look at ancient cultural history in the Americas and the Pacific basin.

In these revealing interviews, first published in 1988 as Historias intimas, ten of Latin America's most important women writers explore this question with scholar Magdalena Garcia Pinto, discussing the personal, social, and political factors that have sh

This novel tells the story of a would-be utopian community built on an old plantation of the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

How political, social, and aesthetic changes made their way into the essayistic writings of twenty-six Spanish American intellectuals.

The autobiography of one of Mexico's greatest artists.

This book traces the development of the response to the human dilemma in the works of the Argentine writer Ezequiel Martinez Estrada,

A collection of plays by one of the most innovative and accomplished of Mexico's playwrights and one of the outstanding creators in the new Latin American theater.

These are the recollections of Alexandre-of his life, his death-in-life, and his ultimate death, as they are played out against the mobile tapestry of the valley where he was born.

The history of medicine and public health and welfare in Mexico through the mid-twentieth century.

This study of the German community of early twentieth century Buenos Aires is a major contribution to the literature on Argentine history and on the New World immigrant experience.

This book examines the attitudes toward population planning of Brazilian government officials and other elites-bishops, politicians, labor leaders, and business owners-in comparison with mass public opinion.