HLI 380: Latin American Literature: Motorcyclists, Writers and Revolutionaries

Invaluable for translators as well as scholars, students, and teachers. Bibliography following each entry includes information about work in translation; numerous lesser-known writers and countries are covered well; long thematic entries discuss such individual topics. Dick Gerdes' 'Translation,' for example, offers a fine overview of work and trends in both Brazil and Spanish America. Highly recommended"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Includes critical essays on such works as "One hundred years of solitude;" "The autumn of the patriarch;" "Chronicle of a death foretold;" and "Love in the time of cholera."

"A provocative examination of the artistic interpretation of twelve of Borges' most famous stories. In Painting Borges, Jorge J.E. Gracia explores in depth the artistic interpretation of fiction using a novel and philosophically sophisticated approach. The book presents a provocative theory of the artistic interpretation of literature, thus contributing both to aesthetics and hermeneutics; it provides original artistic and philosophical interpretations of twelve of Borges's most famous stories, thus making new inroads in to the understanding of Borges's work; and it introduces readers to recent figurative Argentinean and Cuban art, two of the most vibrant artistic currents today. The book breaks new ground because, although the artistic interpretation of literature is nothing new in the history of art, the philosophical exploration of how artists have interpreted literature is a topic that has been largely ignored."--Project Muse.

Women, alterity and Mexican identity in Como agua para chocolate / Tina Escaja -- Like water for chocolate : cinematic patriarchy and tradition / Jorge J. Barrueto -- Like water for chocolate and human nature / Jerry Hoeg -- Like water for chocolate and the art of criticism / Jay Corwin -- Under the sign of hyperbole : magical realism and melodrama in Laura Esquivel's Like water for chocolate / Mónica Zapata -- Como agua para chocolate : Cinderella and the revolution / Cherie Meacham -- Myth and marginalization in Como agua para chocolate / Victoria Martínez -- Female rebellion and carnival : Like water for chocolate / Amelia Chaverri -- Chile conquest : Like water for chocolate's "revolutionary" impact on perceptions of Mexican food in the United States / Ellyn Lem -- National myths of archetypal imagery in Laura Esquivel's Like water for chocolate / María Teresa Martínez-Ortiz -- The Mexican revolution as an active participant in Esquivel's Like water for chocolate / Eric Skipper.