Latin American Literature and its Times: Profiles of Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them (World Literature and its Times, Volume 1)

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
ISBN 0787637262......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
General Preface......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction to Latin American Literature and Its Times......Page 12
Chronology of Relevant Events......Page 15
Contents by Title......Page 31
Contents by Author......Page 33
Photo Credits......Page 35
. . . and the earth did not part......Page 38
Barren Lives......Page 48
Before Night Falls......Page 58
Biography of a Runaway Slave......Page 68
Bless Me, Ultima......Page 80
Blow-Up and Other Stories......Page 90
A Brazilian Tenement......Page 100
The Celebration......Page 110
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father......Page 122
Death and the Maiden......Page 132
The Death of Artemio Cruz......Page 142
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories......Page 154
Deep Rivers......Page 162
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands......Page 174
Dom Casmurro......Page 184
Dona Barbara......Page 196
Facundo......Page 208
The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner......Page 218
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon......Page 228
The Gaucho Martin Fierro......Page 240
The Heights of Macchu Picchu......Page 252
The Hour of the Star......Page 264
A House in the Country......Page 274
The House of the Spirits......Page 286
In the Time of the Butterflies......Page 296
Iracema, the Honey-Lips: A Legend of Brazil......Page 308
l, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala......Page 318
I the Supreme......Page 328
The Kingdom of This World......Page 338
Kiss of the Spider Woman......Page 350
The Labyrinth of Solitude......Page 362
Like Water for Chocolate......Page 372
Macho Camacho's Beat......Page 382
Macunaima......Page 392
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love......Page 402
Massacre in Mexico......Page 414
Men of Maize......Page 424
One Hundred Years of Solitude......Page 436
"Our America"......Page 448
Pedro Paramo......Page 458
Rebellion in the Backlands......Page 468
Recollections of Things to Come......Page 482
"Reply to Sor Philothea"......Page 496
Santa Evita......Page 506
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies......Page 516
The Storyteller......Page 536
Three Trapped Tigers......Page 548
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories......Page 560
"The Youngest Doll"......Page 572
Index (with page links)......Page 580