| Contents |
Introduction / Elisabeth Guerrero and Anne Lambright -- Short circuits : gendered itineraries in recent urban fiction anthologies from Latin America / Marcy Schwartz -- What happened to the cool city? : seventy years of women's narrative in Brazil / Lidia Santos -- On being a woman in the City of Kings : women writing (in) contemporary Lima / Anne Lambright -- Failed modernity : San Juan at night in Mayra Santos Febres's Cualquier miércoles soy tuya / Guillermo B. Irizarry -- Anna's extreme makeover : revisiting Tolstoy in Karenina express / Debra A. Castillo -- The "uchronic" city : writing (after) the catastrophe / Daniel Noemi Voionmaa -- The fourth world and the birth of sudaca stigma / Gareth Williams -- The cultural memory of Malinche in Mexico City : stories by Elena Garro and Cristina Pacheco / Sandra Messinger Cypess -- Writing home : Afro-Costa Rican women poets negotiating Limón and San José / Dorothy E. Mosby -- Urban legends : Tina Modotti and Angelina Beloff as flâneuses in Elena Poniatowska's Mexico City / Elisabeth Guerrero -- Modernity, flirting, seduction, and urban social landscape in Carmela Eulate Sanjurjo's El asombroso doctor Jover / Ángel A. Rivera -- Woman between Paris and Caracas : Iphigenia by Teresa de la Parra / Naomi Lindstrom -- Amateurs and professionals in Ena Lucía Portela's lexicon of crisis / Jacqueline Loss. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006036913 |
| ISBN | 9780816648122 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780816648139 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816648123 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816648131 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
