Books in the Texas Pan American Series series

The exciting and important history of the Mexican Indians who founded Tenochtitlan and who created from it what is known as the Aztec empire.

The first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system.

This book traces the development of the response to the human dilemma in the works of the Argentine writer Ezequiel Martinez Estrada,

A towering Mexican thinker discusses both Latin America's internal problems and its relations with the United States, Russia, and the rest of the world.

This volume explores the interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America through the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians.

How political, social, and aesthetic changes made their way into the essayistic writings of twenty-six Spanish American intellectuals.

This novel tells the story of a would-be utopian community built on an old plantation of the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

In these revealing interviews, first published in 1988 as Historias intimas, ten of Latin America's most important women writers explore this question with scholar Magdalena Garcia Pinto, discussing the personal, social, and political factors that have sh

This study of Dario's poetry demonstrates that esoteric tradition is central to Modernism and that an understanding of this centrality clarifies both the nature of the movement and its relationship to earlier European literature.

This book brings together Ortega's most penetrating and insightful analyses of the fiction of Borges, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Carpentier, Rulfo, Cabrera Infante, and others responsible for great writing from Spanish America.

This biography is the first comprehensive exploration of the life and works of Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974; this sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play.

These two novels by one of Mexico's premier writers illuminate many aspects of contemporary Mexican life.

How humor is used in religious rituals in three Mayan communities.

This novel is the diary of a thoughtful man facing the imminent prospect of death and trying to find the meaning of life.

This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin America's, major writers of the twentieth century.

These are the recollections of Alexandre-of his life, his death-in-life, and his ultimate death, as they are played out against the mobile tapestry of the valley where he was born.

The memoir of a Mexican politician's youth during the Revolution.

An English translation of the greatest work of a man regarded by many as Mexico's most important novelist.

A novel about a passionate woman who lacks the money to establish herself in the liberated, bohemian society she craves.

This collection of nearly all of Salvador Novo's Aztec-related writings,taken together, provides a delightful introduction to Novo's later works and a light-hearted, historically accurate introduction to Aztec culture.

The acclaimed author of Garca Mrquez delivers ';a compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest . . . writer of fantasy' (New York Daily News). Since its first publication in 1981, Borges and His Fiction has introduced the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer to an entire generation of students, high school and college teachers, and general readers. Responding to a steady demand for an updated edition, Gene H. Bell-Villada has significantly revised and expanded the book to incorporate new information that has become available since Borges' death in 1986. In particular, he offers a more complete look at Borges and Peronism and Borges' personal experiences of love and mysticism, as well as revised interpretations of some of Borges' stories. As before, the book is divided into three sections that examine Borges' life, his stories in Ficciones and El Aleph, and his place in world literature. ';Of the scores of Borges studies by now published in English, Bell-Villada's excellent book stands out as one of the freshest and most generally helpful . . . Lay readers and specialists alike will find his book a valuable and highly readable companion to Ficciones and El Aleph.' Choice