Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974) hace una muy personal incursion en Mujer que sabe latin... (1973) en el polemico y actual tema del feminismo. En este campo, Castellanos es una rival temible, pues combate con las armas del ingenio, de la ironia y resplande
In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba’s National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary); her poorly trained but ardent students wo
From the esteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex thre
For one year, Alma Guillermoprieto lived in Manguiera, a village near Rio de Janeiro, to learn the ritual of samba--the sensuous song and dance marked by a rapturous beat--and to take part in Rio's renowned carnivale parade.
An extraordinarily vivid, unflinching series of portraits of South America today, written from the inside out, by the award-winning New Yorker journalist and widely admired author of Samba.
As the descendants of Mexican immigrants have settled throughout the United States, a great literature has emerged, but its correspondances with the literature of Mexico have gone largely unobserved. In Bordering Fires, the first anthology to combine writ
Album de Familia esta compuesto por cuatro relatos que nos enfrentan a situaciones vitales de una serie de personajes poco comunes en la tematica de la autora. El lector no puede escapar a una prosa que incita a la risa pero que, en definitiva, es un sint
