Best Of Contemporary Mexican Fiction

Author : Alvaro Uribe,Olivia Sears
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564785145

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Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction by Alvaro Uribe,Olivia Sears Pdf

Sixteen of Mexicos finest fiction writers born after 1945 are collected in this compelling bilingual anthology, offering a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction, from small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery. Many of these writers, and most of these stories, have never before appeared in English. Readers will meet an embalmed man positioned in front of the TV, a mariachi singer suffering from mediocrity, a mans lifelong imaginary friend, and the town prostitute whose funeral draws a crowd from the highest rungs of the social ladder. The writers that Mexican editor lvaro Uribe selected for this volume are deeply engaged in the literary life of Mexico and include prominent editors, translators, columnists, professors, and even the young founder of a new publishing collective. Between them they have received dozens of prizes, from the Xavier Villaurrutia prize to Guggenheim fellowships and other international awards.

Author : Debra A. Castillo
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816631131

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Easy Women by Debra A. Castillo Pdf

Addresses the topic of prostitution and "easy women" in Mexican literature. The figure of the prostitute or sexually liberated woman not only permeates Mexican folk songs and popular movies but stands at the crossroads of its national literary culture. In Easy Women, Debra A. Castillo focuses on the prostitute, or the woman perceived as such, in order to ask why this character exerts such a hold on the Mexican imagination. Combining early twentieth-century novels, current best-selling pulp fiction, and testimonial narratives, Castillo explores how Mexican writers have positioned the "easy woman" in their works. In each example the transgressive woman -- marked by an active sexuality -- serves a crucial narrative function, one that both promotes and challenges myths about women on the continuum of sexual promiscuity. Ending with a discussion based on a series of in-depth interviews with sex workers in Tijuana, Castillo highlights the complexities and ambiguities of these women's professional and personal lives. Bridging Latin American literary and cultural criticism, gender studies, and studies of Mexican society, Easy Women provides a sophisticated and groundbreaking examination of the place of the sexually liberated woman in contemporary Mexican culture.

Author : Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501374791

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Mexican Literature as World Literature by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Pdf

Mexican Literature as World Literature is a landmark collection that, for the first time, studies the major interventions of Mexican literature of all genres in world literary circuits from the 16th century forward. This collection features a range of essays in dialogue with major theorists and critics of the concept of world literature. Authors show how the arrival of Spanish conquerors and priests, the work of enlightenment naturalists, the rise of Mexican academies, the culture of the Mexican Revolution, and Mexican neoliberalism have played major roles in the formation of world literary structures. The book features major scholars in Mexican literary studies engaging in the ways in which modernism, counterculture, and extinction have been essential to Mexico's world literary pursuit, as well as studies of the work of some of Mexico's most important authors: Sor Juana, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, and Juan Rulfo, among others. These essays expand and enrich the understanding of Mexican literature as world literature, showing the many significant ways in which Mexico has been a center for world literary circuits.

Author : Guillermo Arriaga,F. G. Haghenbeck,Reyna Grande,Laura Esquivel,Javier Valdes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476760193

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Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature by Guillermo Arriaga,F. G. Haghenbeck,Reyna Grande,Laura Esquivel,Javier Valdes Pdf

Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature Get acquainted with the work of some of the greatest authors of Mexican heritage with Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature. This sampler has all the ingredients that makeup some of the best books that Mexican Literature has to offer. You’ll find excerpts from: Malinche by Laura Esquivel The Night Buffalo by Guillermo Arriaga The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo by F.G. Haghenbeck Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande People Like Us by Javier Valdés No matter what your literary preferences are, we know you’ll find something here to satisfy you.

Author : J. Ann Duncan
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822977070

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Voices, Visions, and a New Reality by J. Ann Duncan Pdf

This book introduces to a larger audience the work of a group of Mexican writers whose work reflects the stimulus of the “boom” of the 1960s, especially in the experimental nueva novella. Duncan views the work of six writers in the context of more well known writers of the period (Ruflo, Fuentes, and Del Paso), and concludes with a chapter on other recent innovators in Mexican literature. Despite their diversity, these texts share many common features, and unlike social realism, the works are not openly political, but at the same time they question assumptions about reality itself-and the relation of fiction to truth.

Author : Mary Ellen Kiddle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Mexican literature
ISBN : OCLC:12151875

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The Non-fiction Novel Or Novela Testimonial in Contemporary Mexican Literature by Mary Ellen Kiddle Pdf

Author : Guadalupe Nettel
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609805524

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Natural Histories by Guadalupe Nettel Pdf

Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce and the impulse not to, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together. Each Nettel tale creates, with tightly wound narrative tension, a space wherein her characters feel excruciatingly human, exploring how the wounds we incur in life manifest themselves within us, clandestinely, irrevocably, both unseen and overtly. In a precise writing style that is both subtle and spellbinding, Nettel renders the ordinary unsettling, and the grotesque exquisite. Natural Histories is the winner of the 3rd Ribera del Duero International Award for Short Narratives, an important Spanish literature prize.

Author : Luis Zapata
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015064881249

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The Strongest Passion by Luis Zapata Pdf

Using only dialogue as its narrative technique, Zapata recounts the story of a middle-aged businessman hopelessly in love with the 19-year-old son of his best friend. Through skillful and entertaining dialogues during their courtship, which continue once the conquest is achieved, the novel reflects the deep generational chasm between the characters.

Author : Marina Pérez de Mendiola
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815331940

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Gender and Identity Formation in Contemporary Mexican Literature by Marina Pérez de Mendiola Pdf

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ian Almond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000407136

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World Literature Decentered by Ian Almond Pdf

What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the “West”? Starting with the provocative premise that the “‘West’ is ten percent of the planet”, World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history – not just by deconstructing or historicizing them, but by actively providing an alternative. Looking at a series of themes across three literatures (Mexico, Turkey and Bengal), the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary traditions outside the “West”. The non-West, the book argues, is no fringe group or token minority in need of attention – on the contrary, it constitutes the overwhelming majority of this world.

Author : Brian T. Chandler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684485215

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Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature by Brian T. Chandler Pdf

Science Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporary works of fiction, poetry, and theater from Mexico. In this deft new study, Brian Chandler examines how a range of contemporary Mexican writers “fuse” science and literature in their work to rethink what it means to be human in an age of climate change, mass extinctions, interpersonal violence, femicide, and social injustice. The authors under consideration here—including Alberto Blanco, Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla, Sabina Berman, Maricela Guerrero, and Elisa Díaz Castelo—challenge traditional divisions that separate human from nonhuman, subject from object, culture from nature. Using science and literature to engage topics in biopolitics, historiography, metaphysics, ethics, and ecological crisis in the age of the Anthropocene, works of science fusion offer fresh perspectives to address present-day sociocultural and environmental issues.

Author : Eladio Cortes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313368998

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Dictionary of Mexican Literature by Eladio Cortes Pdf

This volume features approximately 600 entries that represent the major writers, literary schools, and cultural movements in the history of Mexican literature. A collaborative effort by American, Mexican, and Hispanic scholars, the text contains bibliographical, biographical, and critical material--placing each work cited within its cultural and historical framework. Intended to enrich the English-speaking public's appreciation of the rich diversity of Mexican literature, works are selected on the basis of their contribution toward an understanding of this unique artistry. The dictionary contains entries keyed by author and works, the length of each entry determined by the relative significance of the writer or movement being discussed. Each biographical entry identifies the author's literary contribution by including facts about his or her life and works, a chronological list of works, a supplementary bibliography, and, when appropriate, critical notes. Authors are listed alphabetically and cross-referenced both within the text and the index to facilitate easy access to information. Selected bibliographical entries are also listed alphabetically by author and include both the original title and English translation, publisher, date and place of publication, and number of pages.

Author : Dumitru Țepeneag
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564785169

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Pigeon Post by Dumitru Țepeneag Pdf

"A man, a writer, lives alone in a rather squalid Paris apartment. He is trying to write a novel, but he has nothing to say. He tries multiple beginnings, interspersed with one digression (but from what?) after another. In the hope of finding subject matter for his would-be realistic story, he then sends letters to three friends - Edmond, Edgar, and Edourd - with a list of questions about their lives, some rather personal inquiries, some bordering on the obscene. The responses are not very helpful, and even seem suspiciously untrue. Out of this melange of stops and starts, false information, questionable memories, pieces of this and that, an insanely comic novel starts to emerge." "Dumitru Tsepeneag takes us into a game of memory and storytelling, where the tenderness of the past clashes with the comedy of the present, and where fictional characters and actual friends mingle in the play of the imagination."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564785220

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Camera by Jean-Philippe Toussaint Pdf

"In this improbable love story, we meet a man who is obsessed with himself: how he does things and all the ways he might have done them, how he thinks, why he thinks the way that he thinks, how he might do or think otherwise. What happens? He takes driving lessons, goes grocery shopping, slowly yet methodically battles an olive on a plate. It is all simple and amusing until life intercedes: there is love, suddenly, and change, a flurry of emotion, and an unexpected incident with a camera on a ship. Only Jean-Philippe Toussaint - master of poignant deadpan - could write a novel at once so aloof and so touching, where we come to know our narrator intimately while knowing almost nothing about him."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Eric Laurrent
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564784315

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Do Not Touch by Eric Laurrent Pdf

At age 40, Clovis Baccara is a successful Parisian financial wheeler-dealer and lothario love struck by the sight of his longtime business partner's young intended, Veronica. Oscar, the would-be groom, has gotten increasingly paranoid about their life of white-collar crime, and the marriage marks his resolve to get out of the business and start a family. That plan goes awry when the police apprehend Oscar on his wedding day.