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  • Cartucho and My Mother's Hands

    by Nellie Campobello ...
    Translated by Doris Meyer, Irene Matthews ...
    Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael Muoz and Gregorio Lpez y Fuentes and artists Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two novellas, Cartucho (first published in 1931) and My Mother's Hands (first published as Las manos de Mamá in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • This America of Ours

    The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo

    by Gabriela Mistral, Victoria Ocampo, Elizabeth Horan, Doris Meyer ...
    Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were the two most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America. Mistral, a plain, self-educated Chilean woman of the mountains who was a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin America's first Nobel Laureate in 1945. Ocampo, a stunning Argentine woman of wealth, wrote hundreds of essays and founded the first-rate literary ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Rereading the Spanish American Essay

    Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women’s Essays

    Edited by Doris Meyer ...
    "The essays are clearly chosen to be different in style and content from the 'malestream' canon, and the book as a whole is full of old friends and welcome new surprises.... It will be of interest not only to Latin Americanists, but also to the wider community interested in non-European gender studies and cultural studies." —Debra A. Castillo, Cornell University Latin American intellectual history ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay

    Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries

    Edited by Doris Meyer ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Latin American women have long written essays on topics ranging from gender identity and the female experience to social injustice, political oppression, lack of educational opportunities, and the need for female solidarity in a patriarchal environment. But this rich vein of writing has often been ignored and is rarely studied.This volume of twenty-one original studies by noted experts in Latin ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Victoria Ocampo

    Against the Wind and the Tide

    by Doris Meyer ...
    The "first lady of Argentine letters," Victoria Ocampo is best known as the architect of cultural bridges between the American and European continents and as the founder and director of Sur, an influential South American literary review and publishing house. In this first biographical study in English of "la superbe Argentine," originally published in 1979, Doris Meyer considers Victoria Ocampo's ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for BiographyThe most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American historyFew poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other parts of the world, his name and legacy have become almost ... Read more

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    Series Book 12 - Critical Lives
    When Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, it was in recognition of the fact that for many years he had been the pre-eminent poet in the Spanish speaking world. His work takes the traditions of Mexican poetry as well as French and Spanish influences, and adds what he himself read of his contemporaries in Mexico, Britain and France, in particular, the Surrealists. But Paz was also ... Read more

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  • Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years

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    A Very Short Introduction

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    This Very Short Introduction chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis. With the Spanish American War came Modernismo, the end of World War I and the Mexican Revolution produced the avant-garde, and the Cuban ... Read more

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