Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Volume 53, Issue 2 (2020)

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Review's Twenty-First-Century Essays

Editor's Note

Editorial
Editor’s Note
Daniel Shapiro
Pages: 187-188
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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Preface

Preface
Alfred J. Mac Adam
Pages: 189-192
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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Essays (Reprints)

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Seeing Is Believing
Carmen Boullosa
Pages: 193-200
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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Old-Time Limeños
Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Pages: 201-204
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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Buenos Aires in 1949
Christopher Isherwood
Pages: 205-206
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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The City: Between Utopia and Common-place
to Richard Morse, to his “Cities as People”
Lisa Block de Behar
Pages: 207-216
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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The Parable of the Tapeworm
Mario Vargas Llosa
Pages: 217-223
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Meditations on a Poster
Edgardo Cozarinsky
Pages: 224-227
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Sarduy’s Fluttering
Rafael Rojas
Pages: 228-236
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The Birds
Homero Aridjis
Pages: 237-241
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Five Books by Clarice Lispector
Elizabeth Lowe
Pages: 242-245
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Two Tigers: Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa
Álvaro Enrigue
Pages: 246-250
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The Realist’s Crucial Transition: From Conversation in the Cathedral to Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
José Miguel Oviedo
Pages: 251-259
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Remembering Pablo Neruda
Edwin Williamson
Pages: 260-265
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The Memory Quarry: On Sergio Pitol
Juan Villoro
Pages: 266-270
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Gregory Rabassa, Eternal Master
Nélida Piñon
Pages: 271-274
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“R” Is for Rebel: Rosario Ferré (1938-2016)
Aníbal González
Pages: 275-279
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Pop Goes the Boom: One Hundred Years of Solitude and the Latin American New Novel
Philip Swanson
Pages: 280-287
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Rubén Darío through Mario Vargas Llosa’s Looking Glass
Raquel Chang-Rodríguez
Pages: 288-298
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Treasures in an Old Armoire
Sergio Ramírez
Pages: 299-303
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Further Reading [Links]

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Further Reading [Links]
Pages: 304-306
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Features

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Portfolio: Jorge Macchi
Pages: 307-311
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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José Miguel Oviedo: A Celebration of Reading
Alonso Cueto
Pages: 312-314
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Kamau Brathwaite, 1930-2020: A Tribute and Literary Recollection
Elaine Savory
Pages: 315-318
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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Remembering Ernesto Cardenal
Jonathan Cohen
Pages: 319-322
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A Worker Named Gabo
Senel Paz
Pages: 323-327
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
The Word of the Speechless: Selected Stories
Julio Ramón Ribeyro Translated by Katherine SilverNew York: New York Review Books, 2019
Matthew Bush
Pages: 328-329
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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Writing Revolution in Latin America: From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño
Juan E. De Castro Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2019
Andrés Porras Chaves
Pages: 330-331
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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Two Elegies of Hope
Pedro Mir Translated by Jonathan Cohen New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2019
Nicholas Birns
Pages: 332-333
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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Borges, Buddhism and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales
Dominique Jullien Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
Caragh Barry
Pages: 334-335
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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Kokoro: A Mexican Woman in Japan
Araceli Tinajero Translated by Daniel Shapiro New York: Escribana, 2017
Esther Allen
Pages: 336-338
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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