Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America

A Critical Anthology

Editor(s) Patricia Garcia,Teresa López-Pellisa

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Criticism

Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies

  • August 2019 · 160 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Paperback - 9781786835086
  • · eBook - pdf - 9781786835093
  • · eBook - epub - 9781786835109

About The Book

The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism. While these writers’ works have done much to establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary canon, women authors from Spain and Latin America are not always acknowledged, and their work is less well known to readers. The aim of this critical anthology is to render Hispanic female writers of the fantastic visible, to publish a representative selection of their work, and to make it accessible to English-speaking readers. Five short stories are presented by five key authors. They attest to the richness and diversity of fantastic fiction in the Spanish language, and extend from the early twentieth to the twenty-first century, covering a range of nationalities, cultural references and language specificities from Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina.

About the Editor(s)

Author(s): Patricia Garcia

Patricia García is Associate Professor in Hispanic and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Nottingham (School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies).

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Author(s): Teresa López-Pellisa

Teresa López-Pellisa is Ayudante Doctor in the Department of Spanish, Modern and Classical Philology of the Universitat de les Illes Balears.

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