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A novel about the course of a relationship between a widow and a young man.

A vivid, firsthand account of a noncombative encounter between Native American and European civilizations.

This volume of twenty-one original studies by noted experts in Latin American literature seeks to recover and celebrate the accomplishments of Latin American women essayists.

These two novels by one of Mexico's premier writers illuminate many aspects of contemporary Mexican life.

How various readings of a classic 1845 essay have contributed to the making and remaking of the Argentine nation and its culture.

This book examines fragmentation as a literary strategy that reflects the social and political fissures within modern Mexican society and introduces readers to a more participatory reading of texts.

An overview of seventeen major authors and more than one hundred works spanning the years 1844 to 1987.

The letters and unpublished writings of Orozco from this period (1925-1929) describe an important period of transition in the artist's life.

A literal but poetic translation of one of fourteen known manuscripts in Yucatecan Maya on ritual and history.

An English translation of a Mayan history of Yucatan.

How humor is used in religious rituals in three Mayan communities.

The history of a small town in Mexico.

How the popular images of women in Mexican literature have changed in the 20th century.

How Mexican writers responded to a 1968 student massacre.

How religion and community economics affect each other in rural Guatemala.

A study of Mexico during 1913-1920.

Readings of Poniatowska's work from a variety of critical approaches.

This book argues that poststructuralism offers important and revealing insights into all aspects of Lispector's writing,

The memoir of a Mexican politician's youth during the Revolution.

A novel about a girl growing up in the seaport town of Fortaleza, in northeastern Brazil.

Thirteen of Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga's most compelling tales.

A biography of the noted Chilean poet.

This novel, published in 1963 as En Chima nace un santo, makes important connections between the frustrations of poverty and the excesses of religious fanaticism.

This collection of poems, parables, and stories explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world.

Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations; first published in 1900.

In concise but moving words and in memorable photographs, this classic sweeps the reader along from the false peace and plenty of the Diaz era through the doomed administration of Madero, the chaotic years of Villa and Zapata, Carranza and Obregon, to the

A collection of over 400 poems by eighty-five Latin American poets.

Here are collected thirteen of the Brazilian writer's most brilliantly conceived stories, where mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human condition.

A seventeenth-century account of Inca history and customs.