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Best of the West 2010
Edited by James Thomas and D. Seth Horton
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Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas
By Yaron Peleg
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Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture
By Ellie D. Hernández
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Princess, Priestess, Poet
By Betty De Shong Meador
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Red, Black, and Jew
By Stephen Katz
The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy
By Casey Dué
The Cast of Character
By Nancy Worman
Greek and Roman Comedy
Edited by Shawn O'Bryhim
Homeric Questions
By Gregory Nagy
Homeric Responses
By Gregory Nagy
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart
By Betty De Shong Meador
Roman Tragedy
By Mario Erasmo
The Theater of Plautus
By Timothy J. Moore
After-Dinner Conversation
By José Asunción Silva
Ariel
By José Enrique Rodó
Birds without a Nest
By Clorinda Matto de Turner
The Burning Plain
By Juan Rulfo
The Columbian Novel, 1844-1987
By Raymond Leslie Williams
Confabulario and Other Inventions
By Juan José Arreola
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The Contemporáneos Group
By Salvador A. Oropesa
Contemporary Mexican Women Writers
By Gabriella de Beer
The Devil's Church and Other Stories
By Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Dreamtigers
By Jorge Luis Borges
Early Spanish American Narrative
By Naomi Lindstrom
The Edge of the Storm
By Agustín Yáñez
Family Ties
By Clarice Lispector
First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix
By Regina Rheda
Guaman Poma
By Rolena Adorno
Iphigenia
By Teresa de la Parra
Killer Books
By Aníbal González
La Malinche in Mexican Literature
By Sandra Messinger Cypess
Mixing Race, Mixing Culture
Edited by Monika Kaup and Debra Rosenthal
Modernismo, Modernity, & the Development of Spanish American Literature
By Cathy L. Jrade
The Norther
By Emilio Carballido
100 Love Sonnets
By Pablo Neruda
Other Inquisitions
By Jorge Luis Borges
Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988
By Cynthia Steele
The Politics of Sentiment
By O. Hugo Benavides
The Potbellied Virgin
By Alicia Yánez Cossío
Recollections of Things to Come
By Elena Garro
A Rosario Castellanos Reader
By Rosario Castellanos
Sab and Autobiography
By Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga
Selected Prose and Prose Poems
By Gabriela Mistral
Selected Poems of Rubén Darío
By Rubén Darío
Senhora
By José de Alencar
Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector
By Earl E. Fitz
The Shattered Mirror
By María Elena de Valdés
The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing
By Naomi Lindstrom
Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century
By Jill Kuhnheim
Stories, Myths, Chants, and Songs of the Kuna Indians
Compiled, edited, and translated by Joel Sherzer
This America of Ours
By Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
The Three Marias
By Rachel de Queiroz
Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
Edited by Stephen Tapscott
The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel
By Raymond Leslie Williams
The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity
By John A. Ochoa
The Voice of the Masters
By Roberto González Echevarría
Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga?
By Caio Fernando Abreu
Women and Power in Argentine Literature
By Gwendolyn Díaz
Who if I Cry Out
By Gustavo Corção
The Writing of Elena Poniatowska
By Beth E. Jörgensen
Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution
By Max Parra
The Art of Friction
Edited by Charles Blackstone and Jill Talbot
The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras
By Tey Diana Rebolledo
The Disobedient Writer
By Nancy A. Walker
The Geometry of Modernism
By Miranda B. Hickman
Imagining Literacy
By Ramona Fernandez
The Lancelot-Grail Cycle
Edited by William W. Kibler
Postethnic Narrative Criticism
By Frederick Luis Aldama
Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century
By Jill Kuhnheim
Stoppard's Theatre
By John Fleming
Tex[t]-Mex
By William Anthony Nericcio
Toward a Philosophy of the Act
By M. M. Bakhtin
Women and Power in Argentine Literature
By Gwendolyn Díaz
Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution
By Max Parra
Children of the Waters
By Ibtihal Salem
The Director and Other Stories from Morocco
By Leila Abouzeid
Folktales from Syria
Collected by Samir Tahhan
Fortune Told in Blood
By Davud Ghaffarzadegan
Giving Voice to Stones
By Barbara McKean Parmenter
Imagining the Turkish House
By Carel Bertram
In a Persian Mirror
By M.R. Ghanoonparvar
No Rattling of Sabers
Translation and introduction by Esther Raizen
Orpheus
By Nazli Eray
Passage to Dusk
By Rashid al-Daif
Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies
By Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Satan's Stones
By Moniru Ravanipur
The Sheltered Quarter
By Hamza Bogary
Siraaj
By Radwa Ashour
They Die Strangers
By Mohammad Abdul-Wali
The Waiting List
By Daisy Al-Amir
Whatever Happened to Antara?
By Walid Ikhlassi
Women on a Journey
By Haifa Zangana
Year of the Elephant
By Leila Abouzeid
Revised edition coming in Fall 2009
100 Love Sonnets
By Pablo Neruda
Selected Prose and Prose Poems
By Gabriela Mistral
Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century
By Jill Kuhnheim
Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
Edited by Stephen Tapscott
Alien Constructions
By Patricia Melzer
Brown Gumshoes
By Ralph E. Rodriguez
Technophobia!
By Daniel Dinello
Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays
Edited by Ellen Schiff and Michael Posnick
Stoppard's Theatre
By John Fleming
Women Writing Plays
Edited by Alexis Greene
Blood Lines
By Sheila Marie Contreras
Brown Gumshoes
By Ralph E. Rodriguez
Brown on Brown
By Frederick Luis Aldama
The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras
By Tey Diana Rebolledo
Despite This Flesh
Edited by Vassar Miller
Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory
By Emma Pérez
Golondrina, why did you leave me?
By Bárbara Renaud González
Goyen
By William Goyen
Land of the Permanent Wave
By Bud Shrake
Lone Star Sleuths
Edited and with an introduction by Bill Cunningham, Steven L. Davis, and Rollo K. Newsom
Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays
Edited by Ellen Schiff and Michael Posnick
Nine Plays by José Cruz González
Edited by Coleman A. Jennings
Notes on Blood Meridian
By John Sepich
raúlrsalinas and the Jail Machine
Selected writings by Raúl R. Salinas
"Shakin' Up" Race and Gender
By Marta E. Sánchez
Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia
By Frederick Luis Aldama
Tex[t]-Mex
By William Anthony Nericcio
Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas
By Anna Marie Sandoval
Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter
Edited by Ruth Moore Alvarez and Thomas F. Walsh
William Faulkner
By James G. Watson
What Wildness Is This
Edited by Susan Wittig Albert et al.
The Wind
By Dorothy Scarborough
With Her Machete in Her Hand
By Catrióna Rueda Esquibel
Alien Constructions
By Patricia Melzer
Family Ties
By Clarice Lispector
Golondrina, why did you leave me?
By Bárbara Renaud González
How to Suppress Women's Writing
By Joanna Russ
No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton
By Shari Benstock
Sab and Autobiography
By Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga
Senhora
By José de Alencar
Surrealist Women
Edited by Penelope Rosemont
This America of Ours
By Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas
By Anna Marie Sandoval
What Wildness Is This
Edited by Susan Wittig Albert et al.
The Wind
By Dorothy Scarborough
Women and Power in Argentine Literature
By Gwendolyn Díaz
Women of the Left Bank
By Shari Benstock
Women on a Journey
By Haifa Zangana
Year of the Elephant
By Leila Abouzeid
Revised edition coming in Fall 2009