...John Kenneth Leslie Copyright 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Contemporary Spanish-American Fiction . By Spell Jefferson Rae . ( Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1944 . Pp. ix , 323 . $3.00 .) ...

...Ada Ferrer The Representation of Slavery in Cuban Fiction . By Williams Lorna Valerie . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 1994 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 220 pp. Cloth . $34.95 . Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Lorna Valerie Williams’ new...

...Eduardo González Conquest of the New Word: Experimental Fiction and Translation in the Americas . By Payne Johnny . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1993 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . vii , 292 pp. Cloth . $35.00 . Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press 1995...

...Sandra McGee Deutsch The Last Happy Men. The Generation of 1922, Fiction, and the Argentine Reality . By Leland Christopher Towne . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 1986 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xviii , 198 . Cloth . $29.95 . Copyright 1988 by Duke University...

...Eliana Rivero Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution . By Menton Seymour . Austin , 1975 . University of Texas Press . Chronology. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 344 . Cloth. $12.50 . Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Professor Menton is concerned...

.... Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 The Portrayal of Immigration in Nineteenth Century Argentine Fiction (1845-1902) . By Fishburn Evelyn . Berlin : Colloquium Verlag , 1981 . Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 191 . Paper. ...

...Henry C. Schmidt Mexico in American and British Letters: A Bibliography of Fiction and Travel Books, Citing Original Editions . Compiled by Gunn Drewey Wayne . Metuchen, New Jersey , 1974 . The Scarecrow Press . Index . Pp. vii , 150 . Cloth. $5.00 . American and British...

...Miles Richardson Collisions with History: Latin American Fiction and Social Science from“El Boom” to the New World Order . By Nunn Frederick M. . Research in International Studies : Latin America , no. 36 . Athens : Ohio University Press , 2001 . Notes. Index . x , 266 pp...

... For an attempt to disentangle history from myth in the life of another female revolutionary leader, see David Stoll, Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999). On the dangers of assigning historical validity to fictionalized history, see Eduardo Posada Carbó...

... investigation into Veríssimo shows a Brazilian-US network in which literature is questioned both as a potential vehicle for subversion and as representative of its political context. Archival sources related to this investigation reveal how police agents searched for clues within fiction and how ideology often...

...); and the Darkening Stream (William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Louisa May Alcott, and Pearl S. Buck). Louisa May Alcott seems to be in rather strange company here. Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 The Spanish American Reception of United States Fiction, 1920-1940 . By Chapman Arnold...

...Ben Vinson, III Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico . By Martínez María Elena . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2008 . Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 407 pp. Cloth . Copyright...

...Charles W. Macune, Jr. Pirate Novels: Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America . By Gerassi-Navarro Nina . Latin American Studies/Postcolonial Studies . Durham : Duke University Press , 1999 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 251 pp. Cloth , $49.95...

...Nicolas Shumway Reclaiming the Author: Figures and Fictions from Spanish America . By Kerr Lucille . Durham : Duke University Press , 1992 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . 228 pp. Cloth , $32.50 . Paper , $17.50 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Critical...

...John Charles Chasteen Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America . By Sommer Doris . Latin American Literature and Culture , vol. 8 . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1991 . Illustrations. Map. Notes. Index . 431 pp. Cloth . $45.00 . Copyright...

...Jon Beasley-Murray Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America's Export Age . By Beckman Ericka . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2013 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxix, 254 pp. Paper , $25.00 . Copyright © 2014 by Duke...

...Alfonso González Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Narrativa y crítica de nuestra América is a compilation of eleven critical essays about eleven outstanding Spanish-American prose fiction writers: Asturias, Borges, Carpentier, Cortázar, Fuentes, García Márquez, Onetti, Sábato...

... Caldwell demonstrates that she probably knows Machado de Assis (1839-1908) better than anyone else living today. Her approach is sound in reassessing Machado’s biography and novels, eschewing long-accepted statements about his eccentric character and refuting stale concepts about his fiction. From...

... into two narrative sequences, namely, the institutional trajectory of censorship in Brazil and the fiction banned by or written in response to censorship. The two strands take turns in Baden’s chronologically organized chapters, where she studies several contemporary Brazilian authors and presents...

... , 194 pp. Cloth , $59.95 . Paper , $22.50 . © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 In The Imagined Island , Pedro San Miguel establishes a number of purposes for the five essays that constitute the volume. One is to extend and apply theories that reveal the fictional narratives with which...