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Contemporary
Argentinean Edited by Gustavo Fares and Eliana Cazaubon Hermann With this anthology, the voices of fourteen major Argentinean women writers will be heard for the first time in English. Along with their short stories and novel segments, the collection includes an interview with each author and a bibliography of her work. Since its original publication in Spanish, the collection has been expanded and includes a new introduction that deals with Argentinean history of the past decades as well as current literary production there, with special emphasis on the position of women writers. The writers:
Gustavo Fares is associate professor of Spanish at Lynchburg College in Virginia. Eliana C. Hermann is associate professor of Spanish at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. 1998. 264 pp. 6 X 9. Bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8130-1553-7 Cloth, $55.00
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"Editors Fares and Hermann, both Spanish professors, provide a lucid introduction to Argentine politics and history in this century - a time of upheaval accompanied by authoritarianism, censorship, and violence. These female voices offer another viewpoint on that upheaval. . . . Many stories involve real of symbolic immigration and emigration in the hope of finding identity. In the interviews, Jorge Luis Borges is often cited as an inspiration - which is evident in these complex, imaginative works."--Library Journal
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