Jorge Luis Borges

Suzanne Jill Levine

Alfred J. Mac Adam

Presents a collection of essays offering a literary travel guide to the author's native--and beloved--Argentina and Buenos Aires.

On Argentina

Alfred J. MacAdam

In this masterful experiment in truly comparative literary criticism, Alfred J. Mac Adam establishes Latin America's place in the Western literary tradition. By juxtaposing Latin American and Anglo-American texts, he shows how Latin American literature has gone beyond the context of Hispanic letters to borrow from, exploit, and finally extend the Western tradition. Mac Adam describes the changes that have taken place in Latin American literature since the time of Modernismo (roughly 1880-1920), when Spanish American writers tried to update their literary language by imitating foreign, mostly French, literature. Since then, as he demonstrates, Latin American writing has achieved a pioneering status by means of a different kind of imitation—parody—whereby it gives back to the former centers of Western culture their own writing, now distorted and reshaped into something new.

Comparative Readings in Latin American Literature

Textual Confrontations

Luis Manuel Ruiz

Grieving the loss of her husband and child, Alicia is haunted by surreal nightmares that start to appear in her waking world, a situation that causes her to question her sanity and the sincerity of her support network. Winner of the 2002 International Prize.

Alfred J. Mac Adam

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