Contemporary Mexican Women Writers

Gabriella De Beer

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• Mexican women writers moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and... Lees meer

Urban Latin America

Alejandro Portes

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• Much research on the city in developing societies has focused mainly on one of three areas-planning, demography, or economics-and has emphasized eithe... Lees meer

Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988

Cynthia Steele, Steele Cynthia

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• The student massacre at Tlatelolco in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, marked the beginning of an era of rapid social change in Mexico. In this illumin... Lees meer

Land of Bears and Honey

Joe C Truett, Daniel W Lay

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• Winner, Ottis Lock Endowment Award for the best book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 1985 Texas Literary Festival Award for Nonficti... Lees meer

Brazil and the Quiet Intervention, 1964

Phyllis R Parker

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• When the Brazilian military overthrew President João Goulart in 1964, American diplomats characterized the coup as a "100 percent Brazilian movement."... Lees meer

Song of the Heart

Ramón López Velarde

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• Ramón López Velarde (1888-1921) was one of the most Mexican of Mexican poets, whose sense of history found expression in many poems, including his bes... Lees meer

Victoria Ocampo

Doris Meyer

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• The "first lady of Argentine letters," Victoria Ocampo is best known as the architect of cultural bridges between the American and European continents... Lees meer

The Devil's Church and Other Stories

Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• The modem Brazilian short story begins with the mature work of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), acclaimed almost unanimously as Brazil's gr... Lees meer

Mexican Art and the Academy of San Carlos, 1785-1915

Jean Charlot

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• Was the Royal Academy of San Carlos, founded in 1785 by the King of Spain, beneficial or detrimental to the development of a valid, living art in Mexi... Lees meer

Modernismo, Modernity and the Development of Spanish American Literature

Cathy L Jrade

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Modernismo arose in Spanish American literature as a confrontation with and a response to modernizing forces that w... Lees meer

The Shattered Mirror

Maria Elena De Valdes, Maria Elena de Valdes, Mara Elena de Valds

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• Popular images of women in Mexico--conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television--were long restricted to either the stereotypic... Lees meer

The Golden Thread and Other Plays

Emilio Carballido

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• Emilio Carballido was one of the most innovative and accomplished of Mexico's playwrights and one of the outstanding creators in the new Latin America... Lees meer

Conversations with Isabel Allende

Allende Isabel

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• This revised edition has been updated to cover Allende's three newest books- City of the Beasts, Portrait in Sepia: A Novel, and Daughter of Fortune. ... Lees meer

Prospero's Daughter

Joanna O'Connell

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• A member of Mexico's privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America's most infl... Lees meer

An Epoch of Miracles

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• "Mr. Allan Burns, I am here to tell you an example, the example of the Hunchbacks." So said Paulino Yamá, traditionalist and storyteller, to Allan Bur... Lees meer

Borges and His Fiction

Gene H Bell-Villada

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• From reviews of the first edition: "A compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest...writer of fantasy. With a keen appreciatio... Lees meer

Medicine in Mexico

Gordon Schendel

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• A witch doctor casting an evil spell in a steaming jungle village; a young medical-school graduate cleaning a machete wound in a rat-infested thatched... Lees meer

Facundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture

Diana Sorensen Goodrich

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• Domingo F. Sarmiento's classic 1845 essay Facundo, Civilizacion y Barbarie opened an inquiry into the nature of Argentinian culture that continues to ... Lees meer

The Fifth Sun

Burr Cartwright Brundage

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• The ancient Aztecs dwelt at the center of a dazzling and complex cosmos. From this position they were acutely receptive to the demands of their gods. ... Lees meer

Nahuat Myth and Social Structure

James M Taggart

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• First published in 1983, Nahuat Myth and Social Structure brings together an important collection of modern-day Aztec Indian folktales and vividly dem... Lees meer

Dramatists in Revolt

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• Dramatists in Revolt , through studies of the major playwrights, explores significant movements in Latin American theater. Playwrights discussed are t... Lees meer

Otilia's Body

Sergio Galindo

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• From reviews of the Spanish edition: "...among the best works that Mexican fiction has produced." --Héctor Gally, Sábado "With homely features, but wi... Lees meer

Ritual Humor in Highland Chiapas

Victoria Reifler Bricker

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• Zinacantan, Chamula, and Chenalhó are neighboring Mayan communities situated in highland Chiapas, Mexico, near the city of San Cristóbal Las Casas. Th... Lees meer

The Colombian Novel, 1844-1987

Raymond Leslie Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• Novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude have awakened English-language readers to the existence of Colombian literature in recent years, but Colo... Lees meer