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Alfonsina Storni
Selected Poems
Häftad, 1995
150 kr
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"This collection is painful, disturbing, and rewarding. Freeman and three other translators transform Storni's razor-sharp poetry into English versions that invite constant rereading. This is a poetry of fatal beauty that leads toward unavoidable death, but not before freeing the poet to leave …
Gabriela Mistral
A Reader
Häftad, 1995
190 kr
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Gabriela Mistral's name evokes a constellation of contradictory images: a rural schoolteacher and first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize, a poet who sang to children but never had any of her own, a provincialist and a universal traveller. All these references to her mythic legacy contain …
Open Your Eyes and Soar
Cuban Women Writing Now
Av Mary Berg
Häftad, 2003
168 kr
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The writing of Cuban women writers is virtually unknown in this country. Ten of the best Cuban women writers who have risen to prominence in the last decade of the 20th century are included in this anthology which focuses on the challenging period after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the …
Landscapes of A New Land
Short Fiction by Latin American Women
Häftad, 1995
133 kr
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A landmark collection that rescues the voices of the great women writers of Latin America letters, many of them distinguished in their own countries but largely unrecognised abroad. The collection shows a wide range of themes, images, and languages encountered in the new territories of the Latin …
Snowy Road & Other Stories
An Anthology of Korean Fiction
Häftad, 1995
172 kr
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Our image of Korea is shaped by the memory of the Korean War and the country's recent emergence as a fast-developing Asian industrial power. English-speaking readers are largely unaware of Korea's long literary tradition and the work of its contemporary writers. This anthology presents work by half …
Pleasure In The Word
Erotic Writing by Latin American Women
Av Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Margarite Fernández Olmos
Inbunden, 1995
210 kr
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"An important chorus of our south of the border sisters for us Latinas to hear...Here we have much knowing and glorying from Argentina to Brazil to my own Dominican Republic -- toes to waist to breasts of the hemisphere!" -- Julia Alvarez.
Remaking A Lost Harmony
Stories from the Hispanic Caribbean
Av Margarite Fernndez Olmos, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Häftad, 1995
179 kr
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The 25 stories in this collection -- written since 1959 by Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican writers -- make accessible Caribbean literature long lost to most readers in this country because of differences in language, politics, and culture. Despite the variations in style, setting, and period to …
Necklace of Words
Short Fiction by Mexican Women
Av Isabel Allende, Nancy Abraham Hall
Häftad, 1997
146 kr
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The first English-language gathering of the voices of Mexican women, most of whom began to publish in the 1960s, when an emerging middle class supported a boom in Mexican letters. Well-known writers such as Elena Poniatowska and Rosario Castellanos, and writers just beginning to receive critical …
River of Sorrows
Häftad, 2000
146 kr
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This novel is set in the sixteenth century Argentina of the earliest Spanish settlements, when Juan de Garay came down the Parana River from Asuncion, Paraguay, to found the of Santa Fe in 1573. After he left Santa Fe in early 1580, to re-establish the port of Buenos Aires, seven of the mestizos …
Woman Without Background Music
Selected Poems of Delia Dominguez
Av Deila Dominguez, Isabel Allende
Häftad, 2006
172 kr
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Born in 1931, Delia Dominguez is one of the most important poets of Chile. "Woman Without Background Music" is the first volume of her poems to be published in English and collects poems from all phases of her work in a bilingual edition.
Woman in Her Garden
Selected Poems of Dulce Maria Loynaz
Av Dulce Maria Loynaz, Judith Kerman
Häftad, 2002
184 kr
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Born in Cuba in 1902, Dulce Maria Loynaz established her reputation as a poet in the first half of the 20th century. After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, she retreated to her beloved house in Havana, vowing never to write poetry again. Although her class privilege gave her the means to leave the …
I Have Forgotten Your Name
Häftad, 2004
172 kr
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When this coming-of-age novel was first published in Rivera's native Dominican Republic, it shocked readers with its frank look at the sometimes tawdry life of a young Dominican woman. Caught between the onslaught of US consumer culture and the evolving Marxist theology that spread through the …
Mapmaker's Diary
Häftad, 2007
172 kr
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"A Mapmaker's Diary" gathers a selection of poems from both published and unpublished work in a bilingual format by this verbal acrobat, juggler of words, and magician of memory.
Quick Fix
Sudden Fiction
Häftad, 2008
184 kr
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"The wink of an eye and we are transported to an unexpected realm. In very few impeccable lines, Shua's micro short stories open new vistas to our perception of dreams, myths, fairy tales, even of our everyday life. To read her is to discover another dimension in fiction: small is absolutely …
Talisman in the Darkness
Selected Stories of Olga Orozco
Av Olga Orozco
Häftad, 2012
168 kr
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"This is a gem of a collection of Olga Orozco stories, beautifully rendered into English. This wise selection of stories reveals Orozco's lyrical, as well as mysterious, prose. The translators provide an excellent introduction to Orozco's haunting and illuminating saga of childhood on the Argentine …
These Are Not Sweet Girls
Poetry by Latin American Women
Häftad, 2016
206 kr
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This reprint of a White Pine Press classic brings together an astonishing range of work from the turn of the century to the present. Despite cultural maxims encouraging them to be silent, women continue to speak, often through the language of poetry, where there is an abundance of intuition and the …
