Bücher der Reihe Texas Pan American Series

Essays by one of the leading South American social philosophers of the early twentieth century.

One of the most important historical sources for a major part of Simon Bolivar's life.

This novel, published in 1963 as En Chima nace un santo, makes important connections between the frustrations of poverty and the excesses of religious fanaticism.

Cartucho and My Mother's Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico.

Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga.

In this Brazilian novel, originally published in 1875, the heroine uses newly inherited wealth to "buy back" and exact revenge on the fiance who had left her for a woman with a more enticing dowry.

A controversial 19th-century Cuban novel about the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter, together with a novella about an intelligent, flamboyant woman struggling against the restrictions on her gender.

Poststructuralist readings of this author's work.

This book brings together an important collection of modern-day Aztec Indian folktales and vividly demonstrates how these tales have been shaped by the social structure of the communities in which they are told.

This book adds depth to our understanding of the political and religious elite ruling in Panama at thetime of the European conquest.

This book collects thirty-six notable essays by twenty-two women writers, including Flora Tristan, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Rosario Ferre, Christina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska.

This ethnographic study of the Panare Indians of Venezuela is the first extensive look at a tribe of this region of the Amazonia.

Sarah Blaffer analyzes the position of anomalies in societies in this stidy of a norm-offending, yet norm-reinforcing, specter who by his character and actions demonstrates the proper sex roles for Zinacantec men and women.

This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective.

The story of a man who lived through the final days of the Inca empire.

A vivid, firsthand account of a noncombative encounter between Native American and European civilizations.

This volume of twenty-one original studies by noted experts in Latin American literature seeks to recover and celebrate the accomplishments of Latin American women essayists.

This book examines fragmentation as a literary strategy that reflects the social and political fissures within modern Mexican society and introduces readers to a more participatory reading of texts.

Thirteen of Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga's most compelling tales.

How various readings of a classic 1845 essay have contributed to the making and remaking of the Argentine nation and its culture.

An English translation of a Mayan history of Yucatan.

The history of a small town in Mexico.

Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations; first published in 1900.

This is the first serious study tracing La Malinche in texts from the conquest period to the present day.

In this first biographical study in English of "la superbe Argentine," originally published in 1979, Doris Meyer considers Victoria Ocampo's role in introducing European and North American writers and artists to the South American public-through the pages

A biography of the noted Chilean poet.

Here are collected thirteen of the Brazilian writer's most brilliantly conceived stories, where mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human condition.

Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View is the first full-scale examination in English of this major writer's work.

The autobiography of one of Mexico's greatest artists.