Short Fiction by Spanish-American Women
Title | Short Fiction by Spanish-American Women PDF eBook |
Author | Evelyn Fishburn |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Short stories |
ISBN | 9780719047442 |
Provides a grouping of Spanish-American short stories written by women, emphasizing their differences as much as their similarities. Bombal's La historia de Maria Griselda delves into the family tensions found in a country house in southern Chile. Somers' mordant, black humour is present in El derrumbiento, and Leccion de cocina is a humorous but pessimistic account of the profound changes that marriage demands from the Mexican middle-class woman.
Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America
Title | Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Garcia |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Pages | 171 |
Release | 2019-08-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1786835096 |
The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism. While these writers’ works have done much to establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary canon, women authors from Spain and Latin America are not always acknowledged, and their work is less well known to readers. The aim of this critical anthology is to render Hispanic female writers of the fantastic visible, to publish a representative selection of their work, and to make it accessible to English-speaking readers. Five short stories are presented by five key authors. They attest to the richness and diversity of fantastic fiction in the Spanish language, and extend from the early twentieth to the twenty-first century, covering a range of nationalities, cultural references and language specificities from Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina.
Short Stories by Latin American Women
Title | Short Stories by Latin American Women PDF eBook |
Author | Dora Alonso |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003-01-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0812967070 |
Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by such renowned scholars and writers as Gregory Rabassa and Margaret Sayers Peden. Contributors include Dora Alonso, Rosario Ferré, Elena Poniatowska, Ana Lydia Vega, and Luisa Valenzuela. The resulting book is a literary tour de force, stories written by women in this hemisphere that speak to cultures throughout the world. In her Foreword, Isabel Allende states, “This anthology is so valuable; it lays open the emotions of writers who, in turn, speak for others still shrouded in silence.”
Short Fiction By Hispanic Writers of the United States
Title | Short Fiction By Hispanic Writers of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Nicol‡s Kanellos |
Publisher | Arte Publico Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781611922868 |
Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States includes representative works by the most celebrated Cuban-American, Mexican-American and Puerto Rican writers of short fiction in the country. The texts cover a full range of expression, themes and styles of US Hispanics and are introduced by informative entries which place the authors in their cultural and historic frameworks. In these pages, the reader will not find picturesque, folksy or touristy renditions of Hispanic culture. Instead, Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States brings together works that are clear, incisive and authentic representations of Hispanic life in the United States. The selections are as diverse as Hispanic culture itself and as varied as the personalities of their authors. Here are Max Mart’nezÕs outrageous challenge of racial and social structures, Roberta Fern‡ndezÕs construction of Hispanic womenÕs aesthetics, Roberto Fern‡ndezÕs subversion of the English language, Nicholasa MohrÕs humorous attack on patriarchy, and Judith Ortiz CoferÕs poetic evocation of childhood and biculturalism. This collection engages in aesthetic and cultural experience that will result in a re-defined canon and a new identity for the country as whole. They are re-focusing our perception of ourselves as a people and a culture. The pressure and the commitment to do so, of course, make for excellence and innovation in literary expression. It also makes for enjoyable reading. Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States is recommended for the general fiction reader and for use in high school and college literature classes in search of a multicultural perspective.
Other Fires
Title | Other Fires PDF eBook |
Author | Alberto Manguel |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Latin American fiction |
ISBN | 9780394222714 |
A powerful, haunting, vivid, and provocative collection of short fiction by Latin American women.
The Spanish American Short Story
Title | The Spanish American Short Story PDF eBook |
Author | Seymour Menton |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 510 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780520046412 |
Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America
Title | Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Garcia |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2019-08-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 178683510X |
It includes introductions to the life and work of female authors who are not very well known in the Anglophone world due to the lack of translations of their works. This critical work with a feminist focus will provide a helpful framework for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK and US. A wide-ranging bibliography will be of great assistance to those looking to pursue research on the fantastic or on any of the specific writers and texts. This book is endorsed by the British Academy as part of the project Gender and the Fantastic in Hispanic Studies, and by an established international network, namely the Grupo de Estudios sobre lo Fantástico, based in the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.