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This collection brings together critical writing which examines questions of identity and community in the fiction of contemporary American women writers: among them Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisnernos.

This critical collection combines astute and graceful interpretations of well-known literary texts from the Americas while at the same time displaying a rich global understanding of the broad reach of magical realism. Fashioning subtle rethinkings of the magical realist movement, it will shape discussion of postmodern and postcolonial literary histories."--Jose David Saldivar, University of California, Berkeley

This 1989 book is a comparative literary study of apocalyptic themes and narrative techniques in the contemporary North and Latin American novel.

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Explores the influence of the study of the Americas - variously referred to as Americas Studies, Transamerican Studies, Hemispheric Studies, and Interamerican Studies - on the field of comparative literature.

An interdisciplinary anthology that charts the enormous importance of the baroque to the cultural life of the western hemisphere, from the 17th century into the present.

The Inordinate Eye" traces the relations of Latin American painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature--the stories they tell each other and the ways in which their creators saw the world and their place in it. Moving from pre-Columbian codices and sculpture through New World Baroque art and architecture to Neobaroque theory and contemporary Latin American fiction, Lois Parkinson Zamora argues for an integrated understanding of visual an...

A comparative study of Latin American and North American fiction.

An interdisciplinary anthology that charts the enormous importance of the baroque to the cultural life of the western hemisphere, from the 17th century into the present.