The Oxford book of Latin American short stories / edited by Roberto González Echevarría.

Contributor González Echevarría, Roberto.

Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Descriptionxiv, 481 p. ; 21 cm.

Note:This translation originally published: 1997.

Note:PART I. THE COLONIAL PERIOD: Fray Ramón Pané: How the men were parted from the women. -- Popol Vuh: A maiden's story. -- Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: Tocay Capac, the first Inca. -- Fray Bartolomé de las Casas: Plague of ants. -- Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca: The story of Pedro Serrano. -- Gaspar de Villarroel: The adventurer who pretended that he was a bishop. -- Cataline de Erauso (The Lieutenant nun): Amorous and military adventures. -- Juan Rodríguez Freyle: A deal with Juana García. -- PART II. NEW NATIONS: Esteban Echevería: The slaughter house. -- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: The tiger of the plains. -- Juana Manuela Gorriti: He who listens may hear... to his regret: confidence of a confidence. -- Ricardo Palma: Fray Gómez's scorpion. - Where and how the devil lost his poncho. -- PART III. THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD: Rubén Darío: The death of the Empress of China. -- Leopoldo Lugones: Yzur. -- Horacio Quiroga: The decapitated chicken. -- João do Rio (Paulo Barreto): The baby in pink buckram. -- Rafael Arévalo Martínez: The man who resembled a horse. -- Ricardo Güiraldes: The braider. -- Alfonso Henriques de Lima Barreto: The man who knew Javanese. -- Rómulo Gallegos: Peace on high. -- Mário de Andrade: The Christmas turkey. -- Felisberto Hernández: The daisy dolls. -- Enrique Amorim: The photograph. -- Luisa Mercedes Levinson: The clearing. -- Jorge Luis Borges: The garden of forking paths. -- Alejo Carpentier: Journey back to the source. -- María Luisa Bombal: The tree. -- Miguel Angel Asturias: The legend of 'El Cadejo' -- Juan Bosch: Encarnación Mendoza's Christmas eve. -- João Guimarães Rosa: The third bank of the river. -- Juan Carlos Onetti: The image of misfortune. -- Juan Rulfo: Tell them not to kill me! -- Osman Lins: Hahn's pentago. -- Juan José Arreola: The switchman. -- Julio Ramón Ribeyro: The featherless buzzards. -- Virgilio Piñera: Meat. -- Augusto Roa Bastos: Unborn. -- Julio Cortázar: The night face up. -- Rosario castellanos: Cooking lesson. -- José Donoso: The walk. -- Gabriel García Márquez: Balthazar's marvelous afternoon. -- Mario Vargas Llosa: The challenge. -- Clarice Lispector: The crime of the mathematics professor. -- Antonio Benítez Rojo: Buried statues. -- José Balza: A woman's back. -- Nélidda Piñón: The warmth of things. -- Dalton Trevisan: Penelope. -- Crisina Peri Rossi: The threshold. -- Reinaldo Arenas: The parade ends. -- Rosario Ferré: When women love men.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibligraphical references (p. 473-475) and index..

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