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Latino/a Children's and Young Adult Writers on the Art of Storytelling
Children's and young adult literature has become an essential medium for identity formation in contemporary Latino/a culture in the United States. This book is an original collection of more than thirty interviews led by Frederick Luis Aldama with Latino/a authors working in the genre. The conversations revolve around the conveyance of young Latino/a experience, and what that means for the authors as they overcome societal obstacles and aesthetic complexity. The authors also speak extensively about their experiences within the publishing industry and with their audiences. As such, Aldama's collection presents an open forum to contemporary Latino/a writers working in a vital literary category and sheds new light on the myriad formats, distinctive nature, and cultural impact it offers.
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Conversations with Mexican American Writers
Through a series of interviews with nine acclaimed authors,Conversations with Mexican American Writersexplores the languages and literature of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as a confluence of social, cultural, historical, and political forces. In their conversations, these authors discuss their linguistic choices within the context of language policies and language attitudes in the United States, as well as the East Coast publishing industry's mandates.
The interviews reveal the cultural and geographical marginalization endured by Mexican American writers, whose voices are muted because they produce literature from the remotest parts of the country and about people on the social fringes. Out of these interviews emerges a portrait of the borderlands as a dynamic space of international exchange, one that is situated and can only be understood fully within a global context.
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Inter/View
Twenty-eight powerful and individual voices are heard as Pearlman and Henderson offer a forum for a generous cross-section of the women writing fiction in America today -- writers whose vital statistics cross the borders of race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual preference, marital status, age, geography, and lifestyle. Each writer is presented in an essay/interview reflecting the dynamic that develops naturally when two vital minds meet to discuss topic of mutually interest. The writers talk about the role of memory, space, and family in their work, about politics, dreams, and race, about their mothers and children and alma maters, about book reviewing and their agents, editors, and publishers, and about each others' work. A bibliography of principal works follows each essay. A valuable contribution to writers both female and male, for above all else, this is a book about writing.
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Women and Power in Argentine Literature
The astonishing talent of Argentine women writers belies the struggles they have faced—not merely as overlooked authors, but as women of conviction facing oppression. The patriarchal pressures of the Perón years, the terror of the Dirty War, and, more recently, the economic collapse that gripped the nation in 2001 created such repressive conditions that some writers, such as Luisa Valenzuela, left the country for long periods. Not surprisingly, power has become an inescapable theme in Argentine women’s fiction, and this collection shows how the dynamics of power capture not only the political world but also the personal one. Whether their characters are politicians and peasants, torturers and victims, parents and children, or lovers male and female, each writer explores the effects of power as it is exercised by or against women. The fifteen writers chosen for Women and Power in Argentine Literature include famous names such as Valenzuela, as well as authors anthologized for the first time, most notably María Kodama, widow of Jorge Luis Borges. Each chapter begins with a “verbal portrait,” editor Gwendolyn Díaz’s personal impression of the author at ease, formed through hours of conversation and interviews. A biographical essay and critical commentary follow, with emphasis on the work included in this anthology. Díaz’s interviews, translated from Spanish, and finally the stories themselves—only three of which have been previously published in English—complete the chapters. The extraordinary depth of these chapters reflects the nuanced, often controversial portrayals of power observed by Argentine women writers. Inspiring as well as insightful, Women and Power in Argentine Literature is ultimately about women who, in Díaz’s words, “choose to speak their truth regardless of the consequences.”
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Conversations with David Foster Wallace
Across two decades of intense creativity, David Foster Wallace
(1962-2008) crafted a remarkable body of work that ranged from
unclassifiable essays, to a book about transfinite mathematics, to
vertiginous fictions. Whether through essay volumes ( A
Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Consider the
Lobster ), short story collections ( Girl with Curious Hair,
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion ), or his novels
( Infinite Jest, The Broom of the System ), the luminous
qualities of Wallace's work recalibrated our measures of modern
literary achievement. Conversations with David Foster
Wallace gathers twenty-two interviews and profiles that trace
the arc of Wallace's career, shedding light on his omnivorous
talent.
Jonathan Franzen has argued that, for Wallace, an interview
provided a formal enclosure in which the writer \"could safely draw
on his enormous native store of kindness and wisdom and expertise.\"
Wallace's interviews create a wormhole in which an author's private
theorizing about art spill into the public record. Wallace's best
interviews are vital extra-literary documents, in which we catch
him thinking aloud about his signature concerns--irony's magnetic
hold on contemporary language, the pale last days of postmodernism,
the delicate exchange that exists between reader and writer. At the
same time, his acute focus moves across MFA programs, his
negotiations with religious belief, the role of footnotes in his
writing, and his multifaceted conception of his work's
architecture. Conversations with David Foster Wallace
includes a previously unpublished interview from 2005, and a
version of Larry McCaffery's influential Review of Contemporary
Fiction interview with Wallace that has been expanded with new
material drawn from the original raw transcript.
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