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1	Album more books like this by Joy Renjilian-Burgy, Rebecca M Valette add to wishlist This best-selling reader is designed to transition students from reading highly controlled elementary-level materials to appreciating authentic literature. Written primarily in the twentieth century by authors from Spain, Latin America, and the United States, the 29 short stories in Album appear in order of increasing difficulty. Many features, ... see all copies from $29.09! new only from $45.22! \| SVS
2	Album, Second Edition more books like this by Valette add to wishlist Contains more than twenty short stories in Spanish with accompanying exercises and suggested activities designed to develop reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and writing skills. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $58.64!
3	El Cuento Hispanoamericano Antologia Critico-Historica more books like this by Seymour Menton add to wishlist Students of contemporary Latin American fiction are generally aware that during the past 25 years the historical novel has gained increasing importance from Mexico to Argentina. This work stands out as an erudite and interesting achievement by a distinguished scholar. It should be read by both students and specialists seeking to broaden their ... see all copies from $6.28! new only from $10.83! \| SVS
4	Al Tanto: Catorce Cuentos Contemporaneos more books like this by Gene S Kupferschmid add to wishlist This successful reader for second-year Spanish focuses on language acquisition, reading comprehension, and communicative competence. Designed to introduce literature without demanding complicated literary analysis, it contains 14 unadapted short stories by contemporary writers from different parts of the Spanish-speaking world. To facilitate ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $58.82!
5	Album: Cuentos del Mundo Hispanico more books like this by Rebecca M Valette add to wishlist Contains seventeen short stories in Spanish with accompanying exercises designed to develop reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and writing skills. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $62.56!
6	The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel more books like this by Efrain Kristal (Editor) add to wishlist A stimulating collection of new essays on the development of the novel in Latin America. see all copies from $25.29! new only from $25.29! \| SVS
7	On Modern Latin American Fiction more books like this by John King (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
8	Tierra Marcada: Antologia de Cuentos Latinoamericanos del Siglo XX more books like this by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Julio Cortazar, Jose Donoso add to wishlist Tierra marcada is a collection of short stories written within the 50s and 70s. The works included in this anthology center on social themes such as the marginal sectors of our society and the revolutionary ideas that permeate the literary works of this period. Gathered here are works by important Latin-American authors Guillermo Cabrera Infante, ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $7.94! \| SVS
9	La Fugitiva Contemporaneidad: Narrativa Latinoamericana, 1990-2000 more books like this by Guillermo Blanck, Susana Cella, Celina Manzoni add to wishlist see all copies from $15.28! new only from $15.29!
10	Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction: An Introduction more books like this by Philip Swanson add to wishlist This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of twentieth century Latin American fiction. see all copies from $4.32! new only from $99.00!
11	Los Mejores Relatos Latinoamericanos more books like this by Santillana add to wishlist Latin America's finest contemporary stories are featured in this anthology that includes works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortazar, Jorge Luis Borges, and Juan Rulfo. see all copies from $5.69! new only from $11.30! \| SVS
12	Killer Books: Writing, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative more books like this by Anibal Gonzalez add to wishlist Writing and violence have been inextricably linked in Spanish America from the Conquest onward. Spanish authorities used written edicts, laws, permits, regulations, logbooks, and account books to control indigenous peoples whose cultures were predominantly oral, giving rise to a mingled awe and mistrust of the power of the written word that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.36! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Cuentos Fantasticos Modernistas de Hispanoamerica more books like this by Dolores Phillipps-Lopez add to wishlist see all copies from $14.00! new only from $14.00!
14	Writing the Apocalypse: Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction more books like this by Lois Parkinson Zamora add to wishlist This is a comparative literary study of apocalyptic themes and narrative techniques in the contemporary North and Latin American novel. Zamora explores the history of the myth of apocalypse, from the Bible to medieval and later interpretations, and relates this to the development of American apocalyptic attitudes. She demonstrates that the ... see all copies from $12.59! new only from $26.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	Reclaiming the Author - P more books like this by Lucille Kerr, Lucille Kerr add to wishlist The recent fiction of Spanish America has been widely acclaimed for its experimental and revolutionary qualities. In "Reclaiming the Author," Lucille Kerr studies the sources of power of this newly emergent literature in her detailed examination of the critical concept of "the author." Kerr considers how Spanish American narratives raise questions ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $7.94! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Spanish American Regional Novel: Modernity and Autochthony more books like this by Carlos J Alonso add to wishlist Carlos Alonso's study provides a radical re-examination of the novela de la tierra or regional novel, which plays a central part in the development of Latin American fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. He identifies the regional novel as a specific literary manifestation of the persistent meditation on cultural authochthony that ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $28.70! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Antologia del Cuento Latinoamericano del Siglo XXI: Las Horas y las Hordas more books like this by Julio Ortega (Compiled by), Maria Fernanda Lander (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $14.43! new only from $28.99! \| SVS
18 view cover	Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction more books like this by Marcy E Schwartz add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50!
19	Women's Voices from Latin America: Interviews with Six Contemporary Authors more books like this by Evelyn Picon Garfield add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.12! \| first editions
20 view cover	City Fictions: Language, Body, and Spanish American Urban Space more books like this by Amanda Holmes add to wishlist Using concepts from urban and cultural studies, "City Fictions" examines the representation of the city in the works of five important late-twentieth-century Spanish American authors, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortazar, Christina Peri Rossi, Diamela Eltit, and Carlos Monsavais. While each of these authors is influenced at least partially by a specific ... see all copies from $171.24! new only from $187.16!
21 view cover	The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain more books like this by Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola add to wishlist Investigates the role played by censorship in the Spanish-language publishing industry, which led to the Latin American Boom literature of the 1960s and 1970s. see all copies from $20.00! new only from $27.40! \| signed copies \| SVS
22 view cover	El Cuento: Arte y Anlisis more books like this by Edward H Friedman add to wishlist For students in fourth/fifth-semester college Spanish courses. A collection of 25 Hispanic short stories by 24 writers (9 female, 15 male) representing 16 countries is a solid introduction to the art and analysis of reading literature in Spanish after completing a basic language sequence. It contains an introduction in English of basic concepts, ... see all copies from $15.08! new only from $42.95!
23 view cover	Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community more books like this by Lois P Zamora (Editor), Wendy B Faris (Editor) add to wishlist Shows magical realism to be an international movement with a wide-ranging history. see all copies from $11.52! new only from $27.95! \| SVS
24 view cover	Temas del Comercio y la Economia en la Narrativa Hispana more books like this by German Torres, Carlos M Coria-Sanchez add to wishlist "Consideraciones economicas y comerciales en la narrativa hispana: Un enfoque interdisciplinario" is a collection of ten essays, from different authors, on economic and commercial issues as portrayed in Hispanic narrative (fiction, essays, music, and film). The book starts with a general overview of the literary representation of business people; ... see all copies from $30.94! new only from $36.51!
25 view cover	Body of Writing-PB more books like this by Rene Prieto, Rene Prieto add to wishlist "Body of Writing" focuses on the traces that an author's body leaves on a work of fiction. Drawing on the work of six important Spanish American writers of the twentieth century, Rene Prieto examines narratives that reflect - in differing yet ultimately complementary ways - the imprint of the author's body, thereby disclosing insights about power, ... see all copies from $7.59! new only from $40.95! \| signed copies

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