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Latin American Literature

Latin American Literature

 
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  • The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: A Critical Study by Guillermo Schmidhuber and Shelby Thacker

    The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: A Critical Study

    Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote poetry, prose, and plays and is considered the greatest of Mexican women writers. She was an intellectual prodigy, reportedly mastering Latin in twenty lessons, and at sixteen she entered a convent so that she might continue her learning. One of the most influential early feminists in the New World, she answered a bishop's criticism in a letter that has become a classic defense of the education of women. She collected a private library of 4,000 volumes, but when she was told that her studies were delaying the progress of her spiritual education, ...Read More

  • The New Dramatists of Mexico 1967–1985 by Ronald D. Burgess

    The New Dramatists of Mexico 1967–1985

    In 1976 a dozen hopeful young Mexican dramatists – most of them studying with Emilio Carballido – began staging plays, primarily in small, out-of-the-way theater, and publishing them, mostly in university magazines with limited distribution. Until now, more than twenty years later, there has been no comprehensive study devoted either to this original group of writers or to those who followed in the same generation, and no central source of information about them or their production. Although they continue to produce more plays every year, they represent a lost generation.

    Ronald Burgess now offers the first extensive study of this ...Read More

  • Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America by Diana Taylor

    Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America

    Latin American theatre is among the most innovative in the world today. The period 1965–1970 was one of intense theatrical production in the region. Dozens of major playwrights and collective theaters produced hundreds of highly original plays. This was also a period of profound ideological and sociopolitical transformation. Hopes for Latin American self-definition and self-determination after centuries of colonization and foreign exploitation began to crumble, while the right-wing backlash produced a politics of terror.

    In this dynamic study, Diana Taylor proposes that, for all the diversity of peoples, languages, and cultural images in Latin America, the effects of crisis on ...Read More

  • The Double Strand: Five Contemporary Mexican Poets by Frank Dauster

    The Double Strand: Five Contemporary Mexican Poets

    Two strands, one indigenous, the other imposed, pro-duce the poetic and cultural tensions that give form to the work of five contemporary Mexican poets—All Chumacero, Efrain Huerta, Jaime Sabines, Ruben Bonifaz Nuno, and Rosario Castellanos. Although all five are significant figures, only Castellanos has yet been widely studied in the United States, primarily for her novels and her relations with the feminist movement.

    In spite of a number of rather basic differences in their work, these poets share and write within a complicated culture rooted in both the pre-Hispanic and the European traditions. Their poetry reflects this in its emphasis ...Read More

  • Toward Octavio Paz: A Reading of His Major Poems, 1957–1976 by John M. Fein

    Toward Octavio Paz: A Reading of His Major Poems, 1957–1976

    The undisputed intellectual leadership of Octavio Paz, not only in Mexico but throughout Spanish America, rests on achievements in the essay and in poetry. In the field of the essay, he is the author of more than twenty-five books on subjects whose diversity—esthetics, politics, surrealist art, the Mexican character, cultural anthropology, and Eastern philosophy, to cite only a few—is dazzling. In poetry, his creativity has increased in vigor over more than fifty years as he has explored the numerous possibilities open to Hispanic poets from many different sources. The bridge that joins the halves of his writing is a concern ...Read More

  • Iaiá Garcia by Machado de Assis and Albert I. Bagby Jr.

    Iaiá Garcia

    The last of four novels that preceded Machado de Assis’s famous trilogy of realistic masterpieces, Iaiá Garcia belongs to what critics have called the Brazilian author’s “romantic” phase. But it is far more than that implies. Like his other early works, Iaiá Garcia foreshadows the themes and characters of Assis’s most masterful novels.

    Iaiá Garcia intertwines the lives of three characters in a subtly and wryly developing relationship. While the youthful Iaiá is growing into womanhood, a tentative love affair occurs between the aristocratic Jorge and the prideful Estela. This affair is afflicted by ironic shifts of fortune and in ...Read More

  • The Hand and the Glove by Machado de Assis and Albert I. Bagby Jr.

    The Hand and the Glove

    The later novels of Machado de Assis—notably Dom Casmurro and Esau and Jacob—are well known in this country, but the earlier novels have never been translated. Here, in The Hand and the Glove (the Brazilian master's second novel), rendered in English for the first time by Albert I. Bagby, Jr., readers will find a younger, gentler Assis, writing a romantic comedy that is yet permeated with the lively wit characteristic of his later works.

    The story is a simple one-of love lost and love found. Of love lost by Estêvão, amiable but vacillating, who is bemused by his own romantic ...Read More

 
 
 

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