Beyond the Border: A New Age in Latin American Women's Fiction

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This collection of 15 vibrant short stories written by Latin American women includesworks from acclaimed writers such as Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela as well as dynamic new voices. Furthermore, this edition features a new foreword by the celebrated Mexican author Elena Poniatowska, a new story by Nelida Pinon, winner of the prestigious Rulfo Award, and a new critical introduction that highlights the history of Latin American women's writing from the 16th century to the present. "What turns the head is the ...
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This collection of 15 vibrant short stories written by Latin American women includesworks from acclaimed writers such as Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela as well as dynamic new voices. Furthermore, this edition features a new foreword by the celebrated Mexican author Elena Poniatowska, a new story by Nelida Pinon, winner of the prestigious Rulfo Award, and a new critical introduction that highlights the history of Latin American women's writing from the 16th century to the present. "What turns the head is the tone of some of these stories. It is as if someone were whispering directly into your ear, catching you by the sleeve to make you sit down and listen. . . . A strong and varied collection [that seems] to be cut from the same cloth. They are writers, but also scholars, editors, teachers, sisters, mothers, wives and grandmothers-women living several lives at once."-San Francisco Examiner "A short-story lover's dream book."-New Directions for Women "A particularly fresh and vivid book. . . . Most of the stories have a clear-cut feminist text and subtext, which are illuminated by the editors' pointed insights into the worlds of both contemporary Latin American women and contemporary Latin American literature."-Review of Contemporary Fiction
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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
This collection of short fiction by contemporary Latin American women concerns travel ``beyond the border'' in two senses. It presents work by writers who, with the exception of Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela, are largely unknown to English-language readers. In addition, its strongest stories deal with characters propelled beyond the boundaries of familiar experience. In ``A Passion for Donna Summer'' by Dominican Aida Cartagena Portalatin, the voice of the '70s disco diva exhorts a black girl to abandon her Catholic boarding school. She does, only to make the bitter discovery that her will to freedom, like Summer's music, is subverted by the strictures of a racist society. The narrator in Uruguayan Sylvia Lago's heartbreaking ``Homelife'' recounts how her husband's involvement with the mysterious Felipe ends in the destruction of her family and drives her from nearly everything she knows. These works set a high standard which, unfortunately, not all the pieces meet. Nevertheless, in collecting the stories and supplying bibliographies on the authors, the editors--academics in the field of Hispanic and Latin American studies--have made a valuable contribution. (May)
Library Journal
Contemporary Latin American women writers are finally gaining their due among North American readers. This excellent collection, which continues the work of Celia Correas de Zapata's Short Stories by Latin American Women (LJ 5/15/90), includes 14 short stories by 14 writers. Some, such as Isabel Allende, Luisa Valenzuela, and Rima Valbona, will be known to many readers; others, such as Aida Cartagena Portalin and Gloria Stolk, may be new. There is an extremely useful individual bibliography for each writer, including critical works in both English and Spanish; the anthology concludes with a comprehensive bibliography of the Latin American feminist short story. For another book on Hispanic writers, see Puerto Rican Writers at Home in the USA , reviewed in this issue, p. 83.--Ed.-- Mary Margaret Benson, Linfield Coll . Lib. , McMinnville, Ore.
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Latin American women's fiction has received a great deal more recognition in the nine years since the first edition of this anthology. The new edition offers qualitative yardsticks as well, revealing that these writers are moving toward experimental literature and away from traditional, stereotypical concerns with domestic life, marriage, education, and other issues. There are even some militant feminist stories. Each story is followed by a bibliography, and the work concludes with a general bibliography and a second list of women writers not collected here. Strong stories come from well-known writers like Isabel Allende, Elena Poniatowska, and Luisa Valenzuela, and this volume also breaks a barrier by including stories from Brazilians Lygia Fagundes Telles and N lida Pi on. It is hoped that nations other than Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Cuba will be better represented in future editions, as the canon becomes more accepting of Latin American literature, whether male or female. For all academic and public libraries.--Rene Perez-Lopez, Norfolk P.L., VA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780939416424
  • Publisher: Cleis Press
  • Publication date: 9/26/1994
  • Edition description: 1st ed
  • Pages: 320

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
A Critical Introduction
The Judge's Wife 1
The Prize of Freedom 23
A Passion for Donna Summer 38
The Hunt 46
Mercedes-Benz 220SL 57
The Wedding 78
Perfecto Luna 87
Under the Yubayas in Bloom 110
Homelife 132
Adamastor 147
Slide in, My Dark One, Between the Crosstie and the Whistle 159
The Immigrant 194
Crickets and Butterflies 217
Up Among the Eagles 229
The Secret World of Grandmamma Anacleta 248
General Bibliography 265
Latin American Women's Works Not Included in This Volume 279
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