Contemporary Uruguayan Women’s Writing
By Dr María Soledad Montañez, Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Stirling ‘There’s no river, no square, no church, no nothing. This house is the whole world’: Contemporary...
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By Rebecca Jarman. In 2010, Simon Romero published an article in the New York Times entitled ‘Venezuela, More Deadly Than Iraq’. Comparing statistics of civilian deaths in Caracas unfavourably to those...
View ArticleThe Ghosts of the City
By Carlos Colmenares Gil 1. In 2006, two Venezuelan writers, Ana Teresa Torres and Héctor Torres, created an event called the Semana de la Nueva Narrativa Urbana (A Week of New Urban Narrative) in...
View ArticleLiterature of the Imagination in Mexico
By Alberto Chimal. Translated by Cherilyn Elston. en español 1. In the past the term “literatura fantástica” would have sufficed. This has a long history and illustrious origins: at the turn of the...
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Written by Jorge Luis Cáceres. Translated by Cherilyn Elston. Hotel Dolphin, October 2015 My first encounter with the work of Stephen King was in the now defunct bookshop Studium, on 10 de agosto...
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By Lucy Bell, Alex Flynn & Patrick O’Hare Cartoneras in Translation presents a selection of texts by four cartonera publishers from Brazil and Mexico: Dulcinéia Catadora (São Paulo), Catapoesia...
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