Enrique Serna (Mexico City, 1959) is one of Mexico’s most celebrated living writers. Although he is best known for his novels of historical fiction, for…
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Javier Fuentes-León’s directorial debut, Contracorriente (2009), has garnered both critical interest and success, winning rave reviews from respected international print and web outlets and coveted…
Comments closedI SANG to women gathered round; Forth from my own heart-springs Welled out the passion; of the pain I sang if the beloved in vain…
Comments closedAccording to Richard Rodriguez, we owe the invention of the Hispanic to Richard Nixon, whose administration introduced this category in 1973 in the classification system…
Comments closedDirector Leopoldo Torre Nilsson enjoyed an intimate connection with Argentine cinema from a very early age: his father, Leopoldo Torres Ríos, and his uncle, Carlos…
Comments closedThe recent rise in the study of affect and emotions within different paradigms of cultural studies opens many questions relevant to the study of Mexican…
Comments closedBy one of those quirks that make language so fascinating, in Spanish the word romance, although in common use to refer to a love story,…
Comments closedVictoria Nelson’s second book, Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural, ends on an invocative note. “May the Gothick never lose its dedication…
Comments closedThe relentless pairing of trauma and romance in literature is no coincidence. Both trauma and romance—which, apart from psychological and social experience, manifest as themes,…
Comments closedAs one of the most well-known Uruguayan poets of the twentieth century and the only recognized female member of the Latin American modernista movement, Delmira…
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