Sudden fiction Latino : short-short stories from the United States and Latin America / edited by Robert Shapard, James Thomas, and Ray Gonzalez ; introduction by Luisa Valenzuela
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co. , 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 336 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780393336450
- LAS FIC SUD
- PS508.H57 S844 2010
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Latin American Studies | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | LAS FIC SUD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 062638 |
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LAS FIC SOL The black minutes | LAS FIC SOL There is no such place | LAS FIC SPO The enemy blood | LAS FIC SUD Sudden fiction Latino : short-short stories from the United States and Latin America | LAS FIC SUN Sun, stone, and shadows : 20 great Mexican short stories | LAS FIC TAI No happy ending | LAS FIC TAI An easy thing |
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. Introduction: a smuggler's sack / Luisa Valenzuela -- The . White girl / Luis Alberto Urrea -- The . Extravagant behavior of the naked woman / Josefina Estrada -- . Everyone's Abuelo can't have ridden with Pancho Villa / Andrea Saenz -- The . Book without covers / Enrique Jaramillo Levi -- . Alma / Junot Díaz -- 3 microstories: . Cannibals and explorers ; . Respect for genres ; . Theologian / Ana María Shua -- . Clownpants Molina / Stephen D. Gutierrez -- . Insomnia / Virgilio Piñera -- . People of the dog / Alma Luz Villanueva -- . Light is like water / Gabriel García Márquez -- . Red sperpent ceviche / Antonio Farias -- . Celeste's heart / Aída Bortnik -- . Shout / Dagoberto Gilb -- The . Lord of the flies / Marco Denevi -- . Day ah Dallas mare toes / Luna Calderón -- The . Eclipse / Augusto Monterroso -- . Montezuma, my revolver / Fernando Benavidez, Jr. -- . Victim / Pedro Ponce -- . When new flowers bloomed / Carmen Naranjo -- . Imagining Bisbee / Alicita Rodríguez -- . Miss Clairol / Helen María Viramontes -- . Counterfeit / Edmundo Paz Soldán -- The . News of the author / Omar Castañeda -- . Halloween / Norma Elia Cantú -- The . Book of sand / Jorge Luis Borges -- . Customer service at the Karaoke Don Quixote / Juan Martinez -- . Impossible story / Carmen Boullosa -- . Eva and Daniel / Tomás Rivera -- The . Captive / José Emilio Pacheco -- . Essential things / Jorge Luis Arzola -- . Pilón / Sandra Cisneros -- 4 microstories: . Love 1 ; . Love 2 ; The . Test ; The . Hole / Raúl Brasca -- . Our secret / Isabel Allende -- The . Native lawyer / Rudolfo Anaya -- . Señor Noboa / Raúl Leis -- . How to live with a feminista and (still) be a macho : notes unabridged / Juan Felipe Herrera -- . Aunt Chila / Ángeles Mastretta -- The . Hitchhiker / Louis Reyna -- . What should run in the mind of caballeros / Lupe Méndez -- The . Scribe / Rafael Courtoisie -- . Phone calls / Roberto Bolaño -- . Foreign market / Ana Castillo -- The . proof / Rodrigo Rey Rosa -- The . Back of my own head in a crowd / Alberto Ríos -- . Fresh fruit / Marisella Veiga -- . Chronicle of the City of Havana / Eduardo Galeano -- The . Uprooted / Cristina Peri Rossi -- The . Visitor / Daniel Alarcón -- . Volar / Judith Ortíz Cofer -- . Asunder / Robert Lopez -- . Devotion / Alejandra Pizarnik -- The . Eternal dog / Hernán Lavín Cerda -- The . Expression / Mario Benedetti -- . Johnny Depp / Socorro Venegas -- . In the cold of the malecón / Antonio José Ponte -- . Tía / Carmen Tafolla -- . Hair / Hilma Contreras -- La . Guaca / Daniel A. Olivas -- The . Centerfielder / Sergio Ramírez -- . Chronicle of the second plague / Ignacio Padilla -- . "Cielito Lindo" / Lisa Alvarez -- . Day of the dead / Daniel Chacón -- 2 microstories: The . Wooden boat ; . Astilla / Manuel Muñoz -- . Manuelito / Nicomedes Suárez Araúz -- . Zapata / Pablo Medina -- . Cat's eye / Luisa Valenzuela -- . Epilogue: migrations / Julio Ortega.
After the Sudden Fiction and Flash Fiction anthologies, editors Shapard and Thomas teamed with Gonzalez to create this stunning compilation of short shorts (under 1,500 words) by venerated and emerging Latino writers. In Andrea Saenz's "Everyone's Abuelo Can't Have Ridden with Pancho Villa," the narrator's Grandma Jefa discredits the family legends while holding fast to her own: a prescient dream about the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. Luna Calderon writes about Dia de Los Muertos or, as the social studies teacher in her story calls it, "Day Ah Dallas Mare Toes." In "Imagining Bisbee," Alicita Rodriguez recounts the making of a ghost town: "Bisbee's inhabitants want to disappear. They use P.O. boxes and first names. They hide under straw mats and melt into the horizon." In "Miss Clairol," Helena MarIa Viramontes describes the transformative makeup ritual of a mother: "The only way Champ knows her mother's true hair color is by her roots, which, like death, inevitably rise to the truth." The spirited mix of writers also includes Junot DIaz, Sandra Cisneros, Gabriel GarcIa Marquez, and Jorge Luis Borges.
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