Cruel Fictions, Cruel Realities : Short Stories by Latin American Women Writers (Discoveries)
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (857 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0935480870 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 134 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Subjects of the stories vary widely, with most of the stories marked with heavy doses of magic realism or black humor.. Editor and translator Kathy Leonard created this superb and diverse anthology to provide a literary outlet for the best of the new fiction by contemporary Latin American women authors. Through her work with the authors represented here, Leonard brings to these stories an uncompromised clarity of translation as well as useful biographical information about the authors
One of the More Recent Collections of Women's Writing in the Region Reader in Tokyo This book was published in 1997 and contained 18 short stories and 1 excerpt from a novel. The 12 female writers were from six Latin American countries. Chile and Argentina were best represented, with three to four stories each; the other authors were from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The editor's intention was to present well-written, interesting and thought-provoking stories by relatively unknown female writers from Latin America, many of whom had won national or international writing awards.The oldest write. My thougts on "MInor Surgery" This story discusses a woman's reproductive health. The woman discovers she's pregnant and then decides to abort the child. After being at the abortion clinic for a while,(on the day of the procedure)she decides she wants to keep the child. This story was very interesting and descriptive.
Among the more noteworthy are Silvia Diaz Fierro's "The Sailor's Wife," about a man in love with a mermaid, and Ines Fernandez Moreno's painful tale of a mother who literally loses all her body parts to her children's needs. Public libraries without very strong demand for Spanish material can safely pass this one up. Subjects of the stories vary widely, with most of the stories marked by heavy doses of magic realism or black humor. From Booklist Leonard, a professor of Spanish at Iowa State University, has assembled a collection of short stories by 12 South American writers who will mostly be unknown to American readers. Other interesting stories include one that deals with a sadistic teacher who insists his students recite the parts of the genitalia and their functions in every class, and Viviana Mellet's "Good Night Air," in which a man attempts to cope with his elderly, crotchety mo