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050	0	0	_aPQ7816 _b.F57 1998
082	0	0	_aLAS FIC FIR
245	0	0	_aFire from the Andes _b: short fiction by women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru _c/ edited and translated by Susan E. Benner and Kathy S. Leonard ; foreword by Marjorie Agosín
250			_a1st ed
260			_aAlbuquerque _b: University of New Mexico Press _c, c1998.
300			_axviii, 189 p. _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 159-189).
520			_aThis anthology provides an opportunity for English-speaking audiences to read previously untranslated fiction by women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. Much of this work is inspired by an awareness of social injustice -- particularly for women, indigenous groups, and other marginalized members of society -- and by a desire to transcend that injustice through personal revelation. Most of the stories focus on women's inner lives and their struggles to make sense of experience. Like Monica Bravo's heroine attempting to outwit death, or the mayor's wife, in a story by Alicia Yanez Cossio, surviving the news of her husband's infidelity, many of the protagonists are strong women, wise and shrewd. Perhaps the same could be said of the twenty-four authors who have drawn from their experience and imagination to create these compelling, often haunting, stories of life, liberty, love, and loss.
650		0	_aBolivian fiction _x--Women authors _v--Translations into English
650			_aShort stories _z-Bolivia
650		0	_aEcuadorian fiction _x--Women authors _v--Translation into English
650			_aShort stories _z-Ecuador
650		0	_aPeruvian fiction _x--Women authors _v--Translations into English
650			_aShort stories _z-Peru
700	1		_aBenner, susan E. (Susan Elizabeth) _d, 1957-
700	1		_aLeonard, Kathy S. _d, 1952-
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