Latin American Authors since 1950
for Professor Florence Hesler
Contemporary Latin American Literature Class LIT 3073
USF Sarasota / Manatee
Information from Professor Hesler's list of authors and their writings.
On campus or in the library from the Jane Bancroft Cook Library homepage http://lib.sar.usf.edu/
(If you are not on campus choose Link to myUSF (Blackboard) log in with your netID and password and then choose Databases.)
Choose Databases, then by subject category,
Latin American and Caribbean Studies then choose Latin America or
Latin American and Caribbean Studies then choose Selected Websites or
Literature and Literary Studies Databases then choose Article Databases or Literary Criticism
Literature and Literary Studies Databases then choose Selected Websites
Jane Bancroft Cook Library Latin American and Caribbean Studies Guide
Authors from the Reading list for class
*Isabel Allende 1942- Chile
Woman author of short stories, novels: The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, The Stories of Eva Luna, The Infinite Plan, Paula, Daughter of Fortune, Portrait in Sepia
Isabel Allende Biography and photo album
Gale Resources Hispanic Heritage
* Jose Maria Arguedas 1911-1969 Peru
Author of novels: Deep Rivers, Yawar Fiesta, The Fax from Above and the Fax from Down Below: Critical Edition
Reconsiderations for
Latin American Studies
New book presents "Jose Maria Arguedas's views on acculturation
and transculturation for English-speaking audiences for the first time." Ohio
University Press
Peru
Reader
Juan Jose Arreola 1918-2001 Mexico
Author of 16 books of short stories, winner of the Mexican National Linguistics and Literature Prize in 1976 : "The Switchman", Confabulario and Other Inventions, The Fair
Complete Review Confabulario
*Miguel Angel Asturias 1899-1974 Guatemala
Author won the Nobel Prize in Literature: Men of Maize, The President, The Mirror of Lida Sol: Tales Based on Mayan Myths and Guatemalan Legends (Discoveries), Mulata, The Eyes of the Interred, The Talking Machine, Strong Wind, The Green Pope
Gioconda Belli 1948- Nicaragua
Woman author of The Inhabited Woman
Maria Luisa Bombal 1910-1980 Chile
Woman author of novels, short stories: New Islands and Other Stories, the Shrouded Woman, "The Tree"
* Jorge Luis Borges 1899-1986 Argentina
Author of short stories, fantastic stories, detective stories, poems: The Aleph and Other Stories, Labyrinths, A Personal Anthology, collected Fictions, Seven Nights, Dreamtigers, Selected Non-Fictions, Other Inquisitions: 1937-1952, Everything and Nothing, The Book of Imaginary Beings, Selected Poems, The Library of Babel, Universal History of Infamy The Book of Sand, "The Secret Miracle," " The Circular Ruins," "Death and the Compass," "The Garden of Forking Paths, " " Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
Borges: Garden of Forking Paths
Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies & Documentation
UVa Jorge Luis Borges Collection (2000 individual items)
JSTOR Literature stable URL's
Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1922- Cuba
Author of: Three Trapped Tigers, Infante's Inferno, Writes of Passage
*Alejo Carpentier 1904-1980 Cuba
Author of: The Lost Steps, The Kingdom of this World, " Journey Back to the Source," Explosion in a Cathdral
Adolfo Bioy Casares 1914- Argentina
Author of fantastic stories:The Invention of Morel, The Book of Fantasy (with Jorge Luis Borges), A Russian Doll: And Other Stories, Selected Stories, Asleep in the Sun, The Dream of HEroes, Diary of the War of a Pig; a Novel, The Aadventures of a Photographer in la Plata, A Plan for Escape
*Rosario Castellanos 1925-1974 Mexico
Woman author of short stories, novels, poems: The Nine Guardians, Just Like a Woman, A Farce
Julio Cortazar 1914-1984 Argentina
Author of short stories and novels: End of the Game and Other Stories, Hopscotch, Blow-Up and Other Stories, "Bestario, " "The Pursuer, " Around the Day in Eighty Worlds, A Manual for Manuel, A Change of Light and Other Stories, We Love Glenda So Much and Other Tales
Julio Cortazar Biography
Interview from Review of Contemporary Fiction
*Jose Donoso (Yanez) 1924-1996 Chile
Author winner of the Critics Award for best novel in Spanish, 1979, for Casa de campo; National Literature Prize, Chile, 1990 of short stories, novels: Coronation, The Obscene Bird of the Night, Hell Has No Limits, A House in the country, Curfew: A Novel, Sacred Families: Three Novellas, Charleston and Other Stories, The Garden Next Door
Ariel Dorfman 1942- Argentina
Author of stories, novels, poems, plays: Widows, The Last Song of Manuel Sendero
Laura Esquivel Mexico
Woman author of Like Water for Chocolate
*Rosario Ferre 1938- Puerto Rico
Woman author of short stories, novels: The Youngest Doll, The House on the Lagoon, Sweet Diamond Dust, Flight of the Swan
*Carlos Fuentes 1928- Mexico
Author of short stories: Aura, The Death of Artemio Cruz, Where the Air Is Clear, Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins, Terra Nostra, A Change of Skin, The Hydra Head, Burnt Water, Distant Relations, Christopher Unborn, The Old Gringo
Interview NPR
The Years with Carlos Fuentes by David Garza
Aura found in
Short Story Criticism volume 24 pages 58-62 in Reference PN 3373 .S386 v.24
Masterpieces of Latino Literature pages 19-21 in Reference PQ 7081 .A1 M29 1994
Fuentes, Carlos."On Reading and Writing Myself: How I Wrote Aura." pp. 923-31. Genova, Pamela A. (ed. and introd.). Twayne Companion to Contemporary World Literature: From the Editors of World Literature Today, I: Parts 1-5; II: Parts 6-8, Appendices, Index. New York, NY: Twayne--Thomson Gale, 2003.
Frenk, Susan F. "Rewriting History: Carlos Fuentes' Aura." Forum for Modern Language Studies, 30:3 (1994 July), pp. 256-76.
Gyurko, Lanin A. "Myth and Mythification in Fuentes' Aura and Wilder's Sunset Boulevard." Hispanic Journal, 7:1 (1985 Fall), pp. 91-113.
Kooreman, Thomas E. "Reader Interest in Aura: A Search for Confirmation." pp. 25-34. Vera, Catherine (ed.) and McMurray, George R. (ed.). In Honor of Boyd G. Carter: A Collection of Essays. Laramie: Dept. of Mod. & Classical Langs., Univ. of Wyoming, 1981. ix, 119 pp.
Time and Tense in Carlos Fuentes' "Aura" Nelson Rojas In JSTOR database Stable URL:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2133%28197812%2961%3A4%3C859%3ATATICF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
Review: [untitled review]
Author(s) of Review: Richard M. Reeve
Reviewed Work(s): Aura by Carlos Fuentes
Stable URL:http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2133%28196605%2949%3A2%3C355%3AA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8
*Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1927- Colombia
Author of short stories, novels, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1982: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, No One Writes to the Colonel, Innocent Erendia and Other Stories In Evil Hour, collected Stories, The General in his Labyrinth, Leaf Storm and Other Stories
Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Modern World Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude page by Margaret Lee
JSTOR Literature stable URL's
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Elena Garro 1920- Mexico
Woman author of short stories, plays, novels: Recollections of Things to Come
Bibliography by Lucía Melgar-Palacios
Felisberto Hernandez 1902-1964 Uruguay
Author of short stories: "The Daisy Dolls"
Luisa Mercedes Levinson 1914-88 Argentina
Woman author of: The Two Siblings and Other Stories, In the Shadow of the Owl
Rigoberta Menchu Guatemala, Quiche Maya
Woman author winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1992, I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Gabriela Mistral 1889-1957 Chile
Woman author winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1945, poetry: Gabriela Mistral: Selected Poems, Selected Prose and Prose Poems, A Gabriela Mistral Reader, Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
*Pablo Neruda 1904-1973 Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto Chile
Author of : The Poetry of Pablo Neruda; Twenty Love Poems: And a Song of Depair; Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems: Odes to Common Things: ODes to Opposites: Canto General; Toward the Splendid City: Nobel Lecture; Book of Questions; Extravagaria; Fully Empoweredd, Sleected Odes of Pablo Neruda; ISla Negra; Neruda at Isla Negra; Residence on Earth; Pablo Nerude: 50 Odes; Ceremonial Songs; Separate Rose; Heaven Stones; Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems; House in the Sand, On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea; Spain in the Heart, Late and Posthumous Poems
Nobel Prize in Literature 1971
Silvina Ocampo 1906- Argentina
Woman author of short stories: Leopoldina's Dream, The Book of Fantasy
Juan Carlos Onetti 1904- Uruguay
Author of short stories, novels: Brief Life, The Shipyard, Body Snatcher, The Pit
Jose Emilio Pacheco 1939- Mexico
Author of poetry, stories, novels: Don't Ask Me How the Time Goes By, Signals from the Flames, Selected Poems, The Battles in the Desert and Other Stories
*Octavio Paz 1914- Mexico
Author of poetry, prose, Nobel Prize for Literature 1990: The Labyrinth of Solitude; The Collected Poems of OCtavio Paz 1957-1987; Sor Juana: or, The Traps of Faith; Sunstone / Piedra de Sol, Selected Poems, A Tree Within, Early Poems, 1935- 1955, A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems, Selected Poems of Octavio Paz, Essays on Mexican Art, The Monkey Grammarian, a Tale of Two Gardens; Poems from India 1952-1995, The Bow and the Lyre, Configurations, In Light of India, An Erotic Beyond: Sade, The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
*Elena Poniatowska 1932- Mexico
Woman author of fiction: Massacre in Mexico, Here's to You, Jesusa!, Tinisima
Writing of Elena Poniatowska : engaging dialogues. By Beth E. Jörgensen. Sarasota Circulating PQ 7297.P63 Z73 1994
Manuel Puig 1932-1990 Argentina
Author of novels: Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, Heartbreak Tango, The Kiss of the Spider Woman, Blood of Requited Love
Julio Ramon Ribeyro Peru
Juan Rulfo 1917-1986 Mexico
Author of short stories, novels:Pedro Paramo, the Burning Plain and Other Stories
Ernesto Sabato 1911- Argentina
Author of: The Tunnel, On Heroes and Tombs, The Angel of Darkness
Luisa Valenzuela 1938- Argentina
Woman author of fiction: Symmetries: Stories ( High Risk), The Censors, Black Novel with Argentines, Strange Things Happen Here, Twenty-six Short Stories and a Novel, Lizard's Tail, Bedside Manners, Clara (Discoveries), Open Door Stories, He Who Searches, Clara: Thirteen Stories and a Novel
Interview Caribbean
Novel in the Americas. Edited by Raymond Leslie Williams. Sarasota Circulating PN 3321 .N59 1992 from NetLibrary http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=35
*Mario Vargas Llosa 1936- Peru
Author of novels, short stories, plays: The Green House, conversation in the Cathdral, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, " The Challenge," The Time of the Hero, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, The War of the End of the World, The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, Who Killed Patomino Molero?
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Additional:
Books
Sarasota Circulating:
Cambridge History of Latin American Literature PQ 7081 .A1 C35 1996 2 volumes 1996
Sarasota Reference:
| PQ 6055 .S63 1993 | Spanish Women Writers. Ed. by Linda Levine, 1993. |
| PQ 7081 .A1 E56 1997 | Encyclopedia of Latin American literature. Ed. by Verity Smith, 1997. |
| PQ 7081 .A1 H36 1992 | Handbook of Latin American literature. By David Foster, 1992. |
| PQ 7081 .A1 M29 1994 |
Masterpieces of Latino literature. Ed. by Frank Magill. 1994. |
| PQ 7081 .M625 1999 | Latin American literature and its times. By Joyce Moss, 1999. |
| PS 221 .D5 v. 113 | Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers. First Series. DLB.Ed. by William Luis. |
| PS 221 .D5 v. 145 | Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers. Second Series. DLB.Ed. by William Luis. |
Afro-Hispanic American literature
Afro-Hispanic Review USF Electronic Journals for 1998 - current
Archive of Hispanic Authors on Tape from the Library of Congress
Biographies of Featured Authors at the Border Book Festival
Chicano Literature
Chicano Literary History: Origin and Development by Luis Leal
Jose' Antonio Villarreal b. 1924
Americo Paredes b. 1915
John Rechy b. 1934
Richard Vasquez b. 1928
Edmundo Villasenor b. 1940
Quinto Sol Literary Award
Tomas Rivera 1970
Rudolfo Anaya 1971
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith 1972
Estela Portillo Trambley 1973
Dictionary of Writers in Mexico
Hispanic Caribbean literature written in the United States
Reinaldo Arenas 1943-1990
Biography 1938-
Carlos Guillermo Wilson 1941-
Rodolfo Anaya
Gary Soto
Nicholasa Mohr
Tato Laviera
Oscar Hijuelos
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Latino Museums and Research Collections
HLAS Online Handbook of Latin American Studies
Magical Realism
Magical realism : theory, history, community. Sarasota Circulating PN 56.M24 M34 1995
Mundo nuevo (Paris, France) Tampa Periodicals AP64 .M8 no.1 (1966:July)-no.57/58 (1971:Mar./Apr.)
Spanish American Literary Criticism
Journalism and the development of Spanish American narrative. By Aníbal González-Pérez Sarasota Circulating PQ 7082.N7 G66 1993
Women Writers (also see the list alphabetically above)
Albalucía Angel Colombia
Helena Parente Cunha Brazil
Diamela Eltit Chile
Susana Torres Molina Argentina
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