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VOCES DE HISPANOAMERICA, the market-leading anthology, features the most distinguished authors of Spanish-American literature from the pre-colonial period to the present. Introductory essays and literary selections, combined with many historical and literary references, make this text an invaluable resource for both students and instructors. Through detailed essays that focus on each historical period, this 5th edition provides the necessary background information for students to effectively study, analyze, and evaluate literary works. A complete novel or other literary works may be used in...

In her 1999 novel, Una mujer de fin de siglo, Maria Rosa Lojo evokes the decades that followed Rosas' dictatorship of Argentina (1829-1952), when the country began to move toward modernity, impelled by the ideology and aspirations of its new leaders. The protagonist of the novel, the writer Eduarda Mansilla de Garcia, was Rosas' niece, and the sister of Lucio V. Mansilla, the author of the well-known Una excursion a los indios ranqueles. Eduarda Mansilla's husband, Manuel Rafael Garcia, a career diplomat, was a member of the victorious anti-Rosas party. Lojo's novel features the drama of this...

At first glance, Maluco, la novela de los descubridores, by the Uruguayan novelist Napoleon Bacino Ponce de Leon (Montevideo 1947) is about Hernando de Magalhaes' first expedition around the world, as described by the fleet's jester who, in a letter addressed to an aged Charles I of Spain, in his declining years, asking that the king intercede "with your son, our beloved Phillip, and ask that he reinstate the pension that I lost because I sought the truth in villages and public squares." Of course his claim implies acknowledgement of himself as one of the nineteen survivors, thus documenting...