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Mexican writers on writing
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Mexican writers on writing

Author: Margaret Sayers Peden
Publisher: San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press, ©2007.
Series: The writer's world
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary: "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 Poniatowska, and others"--Provided by publisher.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Margaret Sayers Peden
ISBN: 9781595340283 1595340289 9781595340344 1595340343
OCLC Number: 76481382
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xii, 210 p. ; 23 cm.
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
Series Title: The writer's world
Responsibility: edited by Margaret Sayers Peden.
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"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 Poniatowska, and others"--Provided by publisher.

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