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LALT Number 9

Volume 1,

Number 9.

February,

2019

Latin American Literature Today begins its third year of publication with an issue that takes in Venezuelan poetry, the writing of indigenous women, and the strange worlds of fiction. We open the journal’s second volume with a dossier dedicated to Samanta Schweblin, an Argentine writer whose work tests the limits between the fantastic and the real, and then we shift to the poetry of Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas, winner of the 2018 Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana. We also pause over Mapuche poetry, with a special selection of four young women poets who write in Mapuzungun and in Spanish, and we also stay up to date with the present debates surrounding one of the central figures of twentieth-century Latin American literature, Pablo Neruda, with an exclusive interview of his biographer Mark Eisner.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor's Note: February 2019

  • by Marcelo Rioseco
Featured Author: Samanta Schweblin

Samanta Schweblin, the Digger of Stories

  • by Pablo Brescia

Samanta Schweblin: “Literature is the possibility of testing the paths of our deepest inner wars and returning to real life with vital information”: A Conversation with Arthur Dixon

  • by Arthur Malcolm Dixon, Samanta Schweblin

Fever Dream and the Elegy of the Present

  • by Gisela Heffes

The Order of Things: Pájaros en la boca

  • by Lucía De Leone

But Something Happens: Ruptures and Violences in El núcleo del disturbio

  • by Sandra Gasparini

Siete casas vacías, or That Which Never Finds Its Place

  • by Pablo Brescia
Dossier: Chicanx Literature

Chicanx Literature in Latin American Literature Today

  • by Robert Con Davis-Undiano

Three Poems

  • by José Rodríguez

Three Poems

  • by Demetria Martinez

Three Poems

  • by Iliana Rocha

Writing Around New Mexico in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God

  • by Anna M. Nogar

Nuevomexicana Electras: Locating Decolonial Desire in "The Five Wounds"

  • by Myrriah Gómez

Sueños del Coyote: the Emergence of Genízaros in the Nuevomexicano Literary Imagination

  • by Enrique R. Lamadrid
Chronicle

Havana for a Dead Castro

  • by José Antonio Moreno
Fiction

Technical Problems

  • by Nylsa Martínez

From The Animal Days

  • by Keila Vall de la Ville

Here

  • by María José Navia
Poetry

Speech of the Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas, winner of the XXVIII Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana

  • by Rafael Cadenas

Four Poems

  • by Rafael Cadenas

Speech of Ricardo Rivero, Rector of the University of Salamanca, during the presentation of the XXVII Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana to Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas

  • by Ricardo Rivero

Rafael Cadenas: “Poor ‘I’ can’t fight the fact that we are mortal”: An Interview with Claudia Sierich

  • by Claudia Sierich, Rafael Cadenas

The Other Lesson/Reading from Poetry: Writing as Reality

  • by Luis Miguel Isava

The Poetry of Rafael Cadenas, or the Fallen Masks of the Feigning Poet

  • by Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza
Essays

New Versions of the Central American Crime Novel: Moronga by Horacio Castellanos Moya

  • by José Juan Colín
Interviews

Mark Eisner: “Neruda is a resistance poet, and we are all thirsty for that”: An Interview with Roberto Brodsky

  • by Mark Eisner, Roberto Brodsky

"Poems Are Places We Pass Through": An Interview with Mara Pastor by Jotacé López

  • by Jotacé López, Mara Pastor
Indigenous Literature

From Cantos de amor al lucero de la mañana

  • by Adriana Paredes Pinda

Three Poems

  • by Roxana Miranda Rupailaf

From Trekan Antü

  • by María Isabel Lara Millapan

From Guerra Florida

  • by Daniela Catrileo

Mapuche Women’s Voices in Present-day Poetry

  • by Paula Miranda
Translation Previews and New Releases

From The Happy Death of William Carlos Williams

  • by Marta Aponte Alsina
Nota Bene

Nota Bene: February 2019

  • by LALT Team
Book Reviews

Prins by César Aira

  • by Will H. Corral

The Arid Sky by Emiliano Monge

  • by Kevin Canfield

El gran farsante by Luis Carlos Azuaje

  • by Gustavo Valle

Hotel Sitges by Rodrigo Arriagada Zubieta

  • by Juan Arabia

La señorita que amaba por teléfono by Elisa Lerner

  • by Leonardo Rodríguez

Moronga by Horacio Castellanos Moya

  • by William Clary

Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue 1628 to the Present by Anna M. Nogar

  • by Diego Valdecantos

Testimony of Circumstances by Rodrigo Lira

  • by Scott Weintraub
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