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Humanities Seminar The Latin American Short Story Wednesdays 9 a.m.-12 noon Chuck Tatum ctatum@email.arizona.edu Home phone: 742-4007 The short story genre has held a prominent place in Latin American literature for at least The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria. But the unique strength of The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories is that it allows us to see the connections between writers from Peru to Puerto Rico and from the sixteenth century to the present--and thus to view in a single, unprecedented volume one of the most diverse and fertile literary landscapes in the world. Thousands of great short stories can be found in American Literature's Short Story Library, including many of the greatest short stories ever written. González Echevarría, Roberto. The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories, Roberto González Echevarría When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself over night out of thin air. “El almohadón de plumas” by Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937) Though he also wrote plays and poetry, Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga is far and away most famous for his short stories. Instead, García Márquez’s style, says Grossman, “seemed like a way of writing about the exceptionalness of so much of Latin America.” Today, in honor and with tremendous gratitude for that indefatigable chronicler of exceptional lived experience, we offer several online texts of Gabriel García Márquez’s short works at the links below. [PDF Download] Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real [PDF] Full Ebook (Eds.) González Echevarría, Roberto., eds. (1999) The Oxford book of Latin American short stories /New York : Oxford University Press, MLA Citation. 8 Enchanting Short Stories in Spanish That’ll Make You Love Literature 1. APA Citation. Readers looking for something more current might enjoy The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories (1997, 53 works) and The Vintage Book of Latin American Short Stories (1998, 39 works). Contents Preface xi Introduction 3 PARTI THE COLONIAL PERIOD 23 FRAY RAM6N PANE "How the Men Were Parted from the Women" 25 POPOL VUH "A Maiden's Story" 28 FELIPE GUAMAN POMA DE AYALA … THE OXFORD BOOK OF Latin American Short Stories EDITED BY ROBERTO GONZALEZ ECHEVARRI'A NEW YORK OXFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1997. In place of treating as prerequisites the history of Latin America, her religions, ancient and modern, and the complex literary styles of magic realism and the fantastic, these and other strands are presented sequentially through examples first of literature which is familiar and then Latin American literature. But the unique strength of The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories is that it allows us to see the connections between writers from Peru to Puerto Rico and from the sixteenth century to the present--and thus to view in a single, unprecedented volume one … But the unique strength of The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories is that it allows us to see the connections between writers from Peru to Puerto Rico and from the sixteenth century to the present--and thus to view in a single, unprecedented volume one of the most diverse and fertile literary landscapes in …