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The Sleepless Rider
As in the previous two volumes of his novelistic cycle, "La guerra silenciosa," Manuel Scorza adds touches of humor and fantasy to his chronicle of peasant uprisings in the Andes. …
Requiem for a Lightning Bolt
The five novels of Manuel Scorza's "La guerra silenciosa" are self-contained, yet reading them in the order of their appearance enhances an appreciation of the saga's underlying …
Bending the Rules in the Quest for an Authentic Female Identity
The Transformations of Araucania from Valdivia's Letters to Vivar's Chronicle
This book is a study of the representations of the conquistador, the native inhabitants, and the landscape in two accounts of the conquest of Chile - Pedro de Valdivia's "Cartas de …
Immaterial Transcendences
Brazil's "Letter" of discovery, "Carta a El Rei D. Manuel" (1500) by Pero Vaz de Caminha, continues to merit critical analysis. This book considers the Carta as a journey beyond …
Fear and Gendering
"Fear and Gendering" addresses the interaction of phobia, gender, and reproduction in a representative cross-section of work by the iconoclastic contemporary Spanish novelist, Juan …
Approximations to Luis Goytisolo's Antagonia
Luis Goytisolo's epic novel, Antagon a, whose four volumes contain a theory of knowledge, engages the reader in a dialogue about the life experience and the meaning and creation of …
Guiding the Plot
The theatre of Ana Diosdado and Paloma Pedrero in Spain, and Aida Bortnik and Griselda Gambaro in Argentina, written between 1960 and 1990, reveals an increasing preoccupation with …
Valera in Dialogue/in Dialogue with Valera
Juan Valera (1824-1905) was Spain's only realist with a lifelong insistence that narrative privilege invention over testimony. Throughout Valera's lengthy career, his novels …