Latin American Literature and Culture Series

The series is currently inactive. Titles are listed for reference.

Series Editors: Evelyn Picon Garfield and Ivan A. Schulman

Women’s Fiction from Latin America: Selections from Twelve Contemporary Authors

Edited with Translations by Evelyn Picon Garfield

Selections from the prose works of twelve female authors representing seven Latin American countries, creating a collection which speaks to a variety of issues and exhibits a pastiche of richly varied artistic styles.

Violent Acts: A Study of Violence in Contemporary Latin American Theatre

Severino João Albuquerque

Albuquerque argues that in the face of repression, censorship, persecution, and torture, Latin American playwrights have found violence to be both a pertinent theme and a mode of expression.

Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Edited by Stephanie Merrim

Essays exploring the implications of Mexican writer Sor Juana’s feminist status in literary and cultural terms.

The Impenetrable Madam X

Griselda Gambaro  • Translated by Evelyn Picon Garfield

A naughty, comic romp through the fields of desire and pleasure in nineteenth century Spain.

Autor/lector: Huidobro, Borges, Fuentes y Sarduy

Alicia Rivero-Potter

This Spanish-language volume examines the relationship between author and reader in the essays and fiction of four Latin American writers—Vicente Huidobro, Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, and Severo Sarduy.

José Donoso’s House of Fiction: A Dramatic Construction of Time and Place

Flora González Mandri

A comprehensive reading of the narrative works of José Donoso, Chile’s most prominent novelist.