Books in the Texas Pan American Series series

A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.

A biting commentary on the follies of mankind, by one of Mexico's outstanding authors.

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.

The stories in this volume reflect Machado's post-1880 emphasis on social satire and experimentation in psychological realism.

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.

How Mexican writers responded to a 1968 student massacre.

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.

In concise but moving words and in memorable photographs, this classic sweeps the reader along from the false peace and plenty of the Diaz era through the doomed administration of Madero, the chaotic years of Villa and Zapata, Carranza and Obregon, to the

A collection of over 400 poems by eighty-five Latin American poets.

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

A study of Mexico during 1913-1920.

Readings of Poniatowska's work from a variety of critical approaches.

This book argues that poststructuralism offers important and revealing insights into all aspects of Lispector's writing,

Interviews with five prominent Mexican women writiers.

This collection of poems, parables, and stories explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world.

How religion and community economics affect each other in rural Guatemala.

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.

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

A fresh look at ancient cultural history in the Americas and the Pacific basin.

The autobiography of one of Mexico's greatest artists.

An exploration of more than one hundred years of hemispheric relations through political cartoons collected from leading U.S. periodicals from the 1860s through 1980.

This richly orchestrated novel, which won a national literary prize in the author's native land, Venezuela, also earned international recognition when the William Faulkner Foundation gave it an award as the most notable novel published in Ibero America between 1945 and 1962.

A Mexican Family Empire is a careful examination of the largest latifundio ever to have existed, not only in Mexico but also in all of Latin America-the latifundio of the Sanchez Navarros.