Mexican writers on writing
"Ranging from the literature of colonialism and conquest to a contemporary look at Mexican life and letters, the book presents a cross-section of Mexican authors' thoughts on writing, including works by Carlos Fuentes, Bernardo de Balbuena, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Octavio Paz, Elena Pon...
| Other Authors: | Peden, Margaret Sayers. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Antonio, Tex. :
Trinity University Press,
[2007]
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| Physical Description: |
xii, 210 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series: |
Writer's world (San Antonio, Tex.)
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Table of contents Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- An account, much abbreviated, of the destruction of the Indies / Bartolomé de las Casas
- In defense of poetry / Bernardo de Balbuena
- Response to Sor Filotea / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- The Itching parrot / Jose Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
- The Death of the Swan? / Enrique González Martínez
- Translation : The literary and the literal / Octavio Paz
- Selections / Rosario Castellanos
- Some thoughts on dramatic composition / Emilio Carballido
- Decalogue for a young writer / Carlos Fuentes
- Corporeal writing / Margo Glantz in conversation with Noé Jitrick
- A question mark engraved on my eyelids / Elena Poniatowska
- Poems / José Emilio Pacheco
- Dreaming a novel / Angeles Mastretta
- The lesson of the jaguar / Alberto Ruy Sánchez
- Daughter of the park / Carmen Boullosa
- The phases of the moon / Juan Villoro
- Quest / Ilan Stavans
- Crack Manifesto / Pedro Ángel Palou, Eloy Urroz, Ignacio Padilla, Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, Jorge Volpi
- Crack in three and a half chapters / Ignacio Padilla
- Of parasites, mutations, and plagues : notes on the art of the novel / Jorge Volpi.