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Superb and indispensable... This guide should serve to introduce a rich lode to scholarly miners of the Latin American literary tradition. Highly recommended. Choice

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Delmira Agustini Claribel Alegría Isabel Allende Albalucía Angel María Luisa Bombal Marta Brunet Fanny Buitrago Silvina Bullrich Julia de Burgos Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera Lydia Cabrera Nellie Campobello Julieta Campos Rosario Castellanos Madre Castillo Rosario Ferré Sara Gallardo Griselda Gambaro Elena Garro Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda Juana Manuela Gorriti Luisa Josefina Hernández Sara de Ibáñez Juana de Ibarbourou Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Claudia Lars Marta Lynch Clorinda Matto de Turner María Luisa Mendoza Gabriela Mistral Nancy Morejón Carmen Naranjo Silvina Ocampo Victoria Ocampo Eunice Odio Yolanda Oreamuno Olga Orozco Teresa de la Parra Violeta Parra Cristina Peri Rossi Alejandra Pizarnik Josefina Plá Syria Poletti Elena Poniatowska Magda Portal Armonía Somers Alfonsina Storni Marta Traba Salomé Ureña de Henríquez Luisa Valenzuela Indian Women Writers of Spanish America Latina Writers in the United States The Latin American Woman Writer: A Bibliography of Bibliographies and General Criticism Appendixes Title Index Subject Index

About the Author

DIANE E. MARTING is Assistant Professor of Spanish American literature at Columbia University. She has held a Fulbright Dissertation Grant to Brazil and a Fulbright Senior Lecturing Grant to Colombia. She is the editor of Women Writers of Spanish America: An Annotated Bio-Bibliographical Guide (Greenwood Press, 1987) and is currently completing The Sexual Woman in Twentieth-Century Latin American Novels, a comparative study of female sexuality in Brazilian and Spanish American novels.

Reviews

?Apparently conceived as a sequel to Marting's Women Writers of Spanish America, this title does more than improve on its predecessor: it is a superb and indispensable supplement to Latin American Writers ed. by Carlos A. Sole, which included only 18 women in its 176 entries. The overlap is particularly small because Marting does not consider women from Brazil whereas Portugese-language authors seem to make up most of the entries for women in the larger work. Whatever the perceived problems of her earlier effort, Marting has now produced a well-edited and useful guide to the lives and works of 50 women, supplemented by two essays: Indian Women Writers of Spanish America' and Latina Writers in the United States.' Some names will be unfamiliar to many; this guide should serve to introduce a rich lode to scholarly miners of the Latin American literary tradition. Highly recommended.?-Choice

?There is no question that Spanish American Women Writers is an invaluable tool for novices in the field as well as for veteran researchers attempting to remain current in their information. . . . Marting is to be congratulated for matching the diversity she sought in her authors with the variety of her contributing colleagues.?-Women's Studies International Forum

"There is no question that Spanish American Women Writers is an invaluable tool for novices in the field as well as for veteran researchers attempting to remain current in their information. . . . Marting is to be congratulated for matching the diversity she sought in her authors with the variety of her contributing colleagues."-Women's Studies International Forum

"Apparently conceived as a sequel to Marting's Women Writers of Spanish America, this title does more than improve on its predecessor: it is a superb and indispensable supplement to Latin American Writers ed. by Carlos A. Sole, which included only 18 women in its 176 entries. The overlap is particularly small because Marting does not consider women from Brazil whereas Portugese-language authors seem to make up most of the entries for women in the larger work. Whatever the perceived problems of her earlier effort, Marting has now produced a well-edited and useful guide to the lives and works of 50 women, supplemented by two essays: Indian Women Writers of Spanish America' and Latina Writers in the United States.' Some names will be unfamiliar to many; this guide should serve to introduce a rich lode to scholarly miners of the Latin American literary tradition. Highly recommended."-Choice