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LALT No. 14

Volume 1,

Number 14.

May,

2020

The fourteenth issue of Latin American Literature Today features dossiers dedicated to the dislocated writing of Latin American authors based in the United States and the gothic fiction of Mariana Enriquez, plus reflections on writing in a second language by Fabio Morábito, an interview with 2019 Alfaguara Prize winner Patricio Pron, and exclusive translation previews from Guadalupe Nettel, Gabriela Wiener, and Luis Alejandro Ordóñez.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor's Note: May 2020

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Author: Mariana Enriquez

“I See Myself as a Latin American Writer”: An Interview with Mariana Enriquez

By Arthur Malcolm Dixon, Mariana Enriquez

Nuestra parte de noche: Reading Mariana Enriquez and the Problems of the Political

By Marcelo Rioseco

The Gothic Feminism of Mariana Enriquez

By Ana Gallego Cuiñas

Building Mariana Enriquez: Ten Theses

By Pablo Brescia

The Exorcisms of Mariana Enriquez

By Pablo Brescia

DISLOCATING WRITING: LATIN AMERICA REWRITES ESTADOS UNIDOS

Code-Switching of Life: A Counterpoint with Sylvia Molloy

By Claudia Salazar Jiménez

Writing in Migration: A Desedimentation with Lina Meruane

By Cristina Rivera Garza

Travel Notes on Carlos Yushimito

By Rodrigo Hasbún

Dislocating Writing: Latin America Rewrites Estados Unidos

By Gisela Heffes

Brazilian Literature

Between São Paulo and Bahia: An Interview with Lucrecia Zappi

By César Ferreira, Lucrecia Zappi, Susana Antunes

Fiction

Excerpts from El tesoro de la sombra

By Alejandro Jodorowsky

The Glass of Milk

By Manuel Rojas

Short Little Stories

By Aída Bortnik

Poetry

Three Poems

By Alex Maldonado Lizardi

Three Poems from The Agony of Earthly Days

By Ricardo Montiel

Three Poems

By Zakarías Zafra

Essays

A Poem

By Fabio Morábito

Writing in Someone Else’s House

By Fabio Morábito

Illuminations of Translation: Haroldo de Campos and Octavio Paz in Austin

By Christian Elguera Olortegui

Interviews

“Latin American noir is the story of our daily lives”: An Interview with Daniel Salinas Basave

By Ansley Miller, Audrey Lorio, Daniel Salinas Basave, Joseph M. Towle

“Literature is constructed not out of certainties, but in the absence of them”: An Interview with Patricio Pron

By Claudia Cavallin, Patricio Pron

Indigenous Literature

Three Poems

By Xun Betan

Three Poems

By Jarol Segura Rivera

Three Poems

By Ashanti Dinah Orozco-Herrera

Introduction

By Jorge Alberto Tapia Ortiz

Translation Previews and New Releases

From The Last New York Times

By Luis Alejandro Ordóñez

From Nine Moons

By Gabriela Wiener

“Petals,” from Bezoar: And Other Unsettling Stories

By Guadalupe Nettel

On Translation: Seeking Publisher

Colombia From Afar and in English: Translating The Lucky Ones by Julianne Pachico

By Camilo Jaramillo

An X Marks the Spot: A Conversation with Ellen Jones, Translator of Nancy, by Bruno Lloret

By Denise Kripper, Ellen Jones

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: May 2020

By LALT Team

Book Reviews

Soliloquios/Ciudad de Fuego by Edgardo Rivera Martínez

By César Ferreira

Polifemo by Erik Del Bufalo

By Israel Centeno

Derrota de mar by Marco Antonio Murillo

By Irma Torregrosa

Memorias de un basilisco by Gonzalo Lizardo

By Ramón Alvarado Ruiz

Ojo de agua by Verónica Zondek

By Ricardo Herrera Alarcón

Una casa llena de gente by Mariana Sández

By Arianna Tognelli

Americana by Pedro Medina León

By Zachary D’Orsi

Diario en ruinas (1998-2017) by Ana Teresa Torres

By Víctor Carreño

Cuentos de ida y vuelta: 17 narradores peruanos en Estados Unidos by Luis Hernán Castañeda and Carlos Villacorta

By Félix Terrones

Luces de emergencia by Oswaldo Estrada

By Mabel Cuesta

Lyric Poetry Is Dead by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg

By Paul Guillén

La casa de Moravia by Miguel Huezo Mixco

By William Clary

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