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
- 1st ed.
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co. , 2010.
- 336 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
. Introduction: a smuggler's sack . White girl . Extravagant behavior of the naked woman . Everyone's Abuelo can't have ridden with Pancho Villa . Book without covers . Alma . Cannibals and explorers ; . Respect for genres ; . Theologian . Clownpants Molina . Insomnia . People of the dog . Light is like water . Red sperpent ceviche . Celeste's heart . Shout . Lord of the flies . Day ah Dallas mare toes . Eclipse . Montezuma, my revolver . Victim . When new flowers bloomed . Imagining Bisbee . Miss Clairol . Counterfeit . News of the author . Halloween . Book of sand . Customer service at the Karaoke Don Quixote . Impossible story . Eva and Daniel . Captive . Essential things . Pilón . Love 1 ; . Love 2 ; . Test ; . Hole . Our secret . Native lawyer . Señor Noboa . How to live with a feminista and (still) be a macho : notes unabridged . Aunt Chila . Hitchhiker . What should run in the mind of caballeros . Scribe . Phone calls . Foreign market . proof . Back of my own head in a crowd . Fresh fruit . Chronicle of the City of Havana . Uprooted . Visitor . Volar . Asunder . Devotion . Eternal dog . Expression . Johnny Depp . In the cold of the malecón . Tía . Hair . Guaca . Centerfielder . Chronicle of the second plague . "Cielito Lindo" . Day of the dead . Wooden boat ; . Astilla . Manuelito . Zapata . Cat's eye . Epilogue: migrations / Luisa Valenzuela -- / Luis Alberto Urrea -- / Josefina Estrada -- / Andrea Saenz -- / Enrique Jaramillo Levi -- / Junot Díaz -- / Ana María Shua -- / Stephen D. Gutierrez -- / Virgilio Piñera -- / Alma Luz Villanueva -- / Gabriel García Márquez -- / Antonio Farias -- / Aída Bortnik -- / Dagoberto Gilb -- / Marco Denevi -- / Luna Calderón -- / Augusto Monterroso -- / Fernando Benavidez, Jr. -- / Pedro Ponce -- / Carmen Naranjo -- / Alicita Rodríguez -- / Helen María Viramontes -- / Edmundo Paz Soldán -- / Omar Castañeda -- / Norma Elia Cantú -- / Jorge Luis Borges -- / Juan Martinez -- / Carmen Boullosa -- / Tomás Rivera -- / José Emilio Pacheco -- / Jorge Luis Arzola -- / Sandra Cisneros -- / Raúl Brasca -- / Isabel Allende -- / Rudolfo Anaya -- / Raúl Leis -- / Juan Felipe Herrera -- / Ángeles Mastretta -- / Louis Reyna -- / Lupe Méndez -- / Rafael Courtoisie -- / Roberto Bolaño -- / Ana Castillo -- / Rodrigo Rey Rosa -- / Alberto Ríos -- / Marisella Veiga -- / Eduardo Galeano -- / Cristina Peri Rossi -- / Daniel Alarcón -- / Judith Ortíz Cofer -- / Robert Lopez -- / Alejandra Pizarnik -- / Hernán Lavín Cerda -- / Mario Benedetti -- / Socorro Venegas -- / Antonio José Ponte -- / Carmen Tafolla -- / Hilma Contreras -- / Daniel A. Olivas -- / Sergio Ramírez -- / Ignacio Padilla -- / Lisa Alvarez -- / Daniel Chacón -- / Manuel Muñoz -- / Nicomedes Suárez Araúz -- / Pablo Medina -- / Luisa Valenzuela -- / Julio Ortega. The The The 3 microstories: The The The The The 4 microstories: The The The The The The The The The The The La The 2 microstories: The
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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Hispanic Americans---Literary collections Short stories, American