Beyond the Border

A New Age in Latin American Women's Fiction

Edited by Nora Erro-Peralta and Caridad Silva

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This collection of 15 vibrant short stories showcases a rich and important body of fiction from Latin American women, including well-known writers such as Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela as well as dynamic new voices. Ranging across boundaries in terms of both geography and gender, the stories deal with a variety of subjects—incest, race, politics, sexual needs, love, old age, and child abuse—and incorporate a variety of narrative forms.

This edition features a new foreword by the celebrated Mexican author Elena Poniatowska, a new story by Nélida Piñón, winner of the prestigious Rulfo award, and a new, critical introduction that highlights the history of Latin American women’s writing from the 16th century to the present. Also included are a commentary on each story, biographical sketches of each author, and an updated annotated bibliography of Latin American women writers.

One of just a handful of anthologies of short stories in English by Latin American women, the collection is both a literary compendium and a desktop reference.

Nora Erro-Peralta is professor of Latin American literature and director of Latin American studies at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. She is the author or editor of three books and of numerous articles in such journals journals as Hispamerica and Chasqui. Caridad Silva is associate professor and chair of Hispanic studies at Glendon College of York University, Toronto. Together they have edited Puerta abierta: La nueva escritora latinoamericana, a Latin American literature text.

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"What turns the head is the tone of some of these stories. It is as if someone were whispering directly into your ear, catching you by the sleeve to make you sit down and listen. . . . A strong and varied collection [that seems] to be cut from the same cloth. They are writers, but also scholars, editors, teachers, sisters, mothers, wives and grandmothers—women living several lives at once."—San Francisco Examiner


"A short-story lover’s dream book."—New Directions for Women


"A particularly fresh and vivid book. . . . Most of the stories have a clear-cut feminist text and subtext, which are illuminated by the editors’ pointed insights into the worlds of both contemporary Latin American women and contemporary Latin American literature."—Review of Contemporary Fiction