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New York. 1997. Oxford University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 1997. Oxford University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0195092341. 518 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Leah Lococo. Jacket painting by Frida Kahlo, The Bus (El Camion), 1929. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays, Ilan Stavans provides an anthology that is as vast, as varied, and as fascinating as the region it represents. While retaining much of the flavor of Latin American fiction-the dazzling metaphors, richness of language, and sheer imaginative bravado-these essays give us the more intellectual, critical, and self-reflexive side of the dreaming mind that has so thoroughly entranced the literary world. From Baldomero Sanin Cano's lacerating critique of Theodore Roosevelt to Ezequiel Martinez Estrada's reverential reading of Thoreau; from Pablo Neruda's passionate Nobel acceptance speech to Mario Vargas Llosa's penetrating analysis of the destruction of the Incas; from Isabel Allende's and Carlos Fuentes's personal accounts of their writing to Gabriel Garcia Márquez's playful repudiation of the umbrella and Rosario Ferré's complex assessment of the role of the translator, this volume gives us the whole spectrum of concerns that have animated some of the greatest writers of our time. Of course, the political struggles that have afflicted the region for centuries-the ‘endemic dictatorships resembling tropical fevers, ' as Augusto Roa Bastos calls them-exert a constant pressure on the writing gathered here. Indeed, it is the attempt to understand the effects of history and politics on personal, cultural, and literary identities that makes these essays so compelling. Enrique Anderson Imbert asserts that ‘the history of the essay does not show us a limbo of indecisive people or apprentices, but an emphatic assembly of spirits who felt confident, ingenious, and aware. ' Includes selections by Andrés Bello, Jorge Amado, Julio Cortázar, Clarice Lispector, Octavio Paz, Ariel Dorfman, Manuel Puig, and many others. inventory #24771.