Product Description: Almost lost to literary history, Felipe Alfau was rediscovered in 1988 with the republication of his proto-postmodernist novel Locos; in 1990 his only other novel, Chromos (written in 1948), was published for the first time, winning great critical acclaim and a nomination for the National Book Award...read more

Product Description: Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage is Ilan Stavans’s contribution to the literature on Columbus. “My purpose,” says Stavans, “is to revisit, to investigate, to play with the asymmetrical geometries of the admiral’s literary adventures in the human imagination...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Features the writing of Sandra Cisneros, Oscar Hijuelos, Rudolfo Anaya, Julia Alvarez, and others

A collection of memoirs and stories about growing up Latino in the United States features the writing of Sandra Cisneros, Oscar Hijuelos, Rudolfo Anaya, Julia Alvarez, and others. 17,500 first printing.

Product Description: This collection of Latin-American literature features short stories of revenge and hope, love and death, written by established masters as well as by new voices. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A searching and pioneering psycho-cultural profile of the culture and identity of the 22 million Hispanics in America today.

A profile of Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta describes his early years with the U.S. Air Force and as a law student and chronicles his political activism in East Los Angeles that led to the 'Brown Power' movement

Product Description: The One-Handed Pianist was published to acclaim in the early 1990’s, with the two-part Spanish edition winning the Latino Literature Prize in 1989 and the Gamma Literature Prize in 1992. Its tales look at what it means to be Jewish in the Hispanic world—a world in which spirituality is often exercised outside the realm of orthodoxy...read more

Product Description: This milestone collection gathers unpublished stories, essays, letters, poems and a teleplay written by Acosta (1935-1974), the Chicano attorney, political activist and writer, between the early 1960s and shortly before his misterious disappearance in Mazatlán, Mexico in 1974.

Product Description: Fascinated by the idea of Western civilization as being a sequence of numerous misinterpretations and misrepresentations, these 19 essays cover a broad range of topics with the unifying theme being the crossroads where politics and the imagination meet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A winner of the Latino Literature Prize and nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award offers an anthology of the short stories of twenty-three young Latino writers, representing the best of contemporary Latino fiction. Original.

'This en face annotated edition of selected writings of the Mexican poet includes the Respuesta to the Bishop of Puebla (1691) and a broad selection of her poetry and dramatic texts: nine love sonnets; segments from Primero sue�no, Villancico VI to SaintCatherine, and Loa para el auto sacramental de el divino Narciso; and Leonor's speech from the play Los empe�nos de una casa. Peden's 'Translator's Note' explains her translation strategy of 'moving backwards' towards the poet's place and time, which skillfully captures the full flavor of the baroque past. Stavans' extensive 'Introduction' and 'Suggestions for Further Reading' provide orientation to Sor Juana's masterpieces and their social and intellectual contexts. Highly recommended for classroom and general use'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Collects many of the writings of Juana In�es de la Cruz, including a defense of the rights of women to participate in intellectual pursuits, and contains autobiographical sonnets, religious poetry, and love poems. (view table of contents)

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Contains more than seventy selections, some never before translated into English, by such well-known Latin American writers as Pablo Neruda, Alfonso Reyes, and Carlos Fuentes, covering a broad range of topics from politics to history to literature. UP. (view table of contents)

A collection of twenty stories documenting the intricate culture and lifestyles of some of America's most prominent cities includes stories from such noted authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Baldwin. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Cláper is a novel of Venezuelan Jewish life originally published in Spanish in 1987. Narrated by a father, a first-generation emigrant from Eastern Europe, and his daughter, a second-generation Jewish Venezuelan, it tells a classic story of the twentieth-century Jewish experience, of Old World struggles for economic survival and New World struggles for acceptance and independence...read more

Product Description: From one of our foremost cultural critics comes a provocative collection of essays on kitsch and high art in the Americas. Ilan Stavans examines the delightful if torturous relationship between a Europeanized elite and the hybrid masses in a continent he sees as imprisoned in the labyrinth of identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: stories selected by 16 preeminent translators (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Hailed as a literary relative of Kafka and Poe by his Italian and Cuban contemporaries, Calvert Casey and his enthralling work have until now remained eclipsed in the United States. This collection brings all of Casey’s powerful short stories and a fragment of an unfinished novel to an English-speaking audience for the first time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A wide-ranging anthology presents the work of more than fifty notable Jewish writers from a dozen countries and from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including Sholem Aleichem, the father of Yiddish literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Cynthia Ozick. UP. (view table of contents)