Ana Duffy holds a PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of Queensland, Australia. She has worked in various Australian universities as a lecturer and tutor in the fields of Latin American studies and literature, Spanish and, being a writer herself, in creative writing and literary studies. As a researcher, she has focused on Luisa Valenzuela, marginality and, more recently, on the practice of creative writing in a foreign country and through a borrowed language.

• CONTENTS: Unas palabras – The ripple effect – Leading towards and breaking through subalternity – Locating El Mañana within Valenzuela’s oeuvre – subaltern: The characters in El Mañana.

Ana Duffy holds a PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of Queensland, Australia. She has worked in various Australian universities as a lecturer and tutor in the fields of Latin American studies and literature, Spanish and, being a writer herself, in creative writing and literary studies. As a researcher, she has focused on Luisa Valenzuela, marginality and, more recently, on the practice of creative writing in a foreign country and through a borrowed language.

• CONTENTS: Unas palabras – The ripple effect – Leading towards and breaking through subalternity – Locating El Mañana within Valenzuela’s oeuvre – subaltern: The characters in El Mañana.