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Elicura Chihuailaf

Volume 1,

Number 16.

November,

2020

In our sixteenth issue, we celebrate Mapuche poet Elicura Chihuailaf, who in 2020 became the first indigenous writer to receive Chile’s National Prize for Literature. We also feature dossiers dedicated to the work of Andrés Neuman, Latin American literary criticism, and the Latin American essay, plus a bilingual selection of texts from Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: 50 Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature commemorating Gabriel García Márquez, the first Latin American author to win the prestigious Neustadt Prize.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: November 2020

  • by Marcelo Rioseco
Featured Author: Elicura Chihuailaf

The Water of Life

  • by Elicura Chihuailaf

“Within each one of us lives the thought of our elders and our ancestors”: A Conversation with Elicura Chihuailaf

  • by Arthur Malcolm Dixon, Elicura Chihuailaf

Six Poems

  • by Elicura Chihuailaf

Elicura Chihuailaf: The Task of the Mapuche Translator

  • by Christian Elguera

Introduction: Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpán, Mapuche Poetry for Our Survival

  • by Paula Miranda
Dossier: Andrés Neuman

The Art of Bidding Welcome: Andrés Neuman in Translation

  • by Arthur Malcolm Dixon

A Second Pair of Eyes: A Conversation with Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia

  • by Arthur Malcolm Dixon, Lorenza Garcia, Nick Caistor

Two Short Stories from The Things We Don’t Do

  • by Andrés Neuman

Four Poems from Vivir de oído

  • by Andrés Neuman

Keys to Reading Neuman

  • by Francisca Noguerol
Dispatches from the Republic of Letters

The Fabulating Gifts of Gabriel García Márquez

  • by Thor Vilhjálmsson

Allegro Barbaro, or Gabriel García Márquez in Oklahoma

  • by Ivar Ivask

The Neustadt Prize on the World Stage

  • by Daniel Simon

Preface

  • by Robert Con Davis-Undiano

Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: Fifty Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, 1970–2020

Brazilian Literature

Poems from Menino do Mato

  • by Manoel de Barros

Black Bean Stew

  • by Luiz Vilela
Chronicle

This Side of Paradise: José Donoso at Princeton

Fiction

Birds

  • by John Better Armella

Duck Hunter / Caçador de patos

  • by Juan Pablo Roncone

The Requena Sisters

  • by Mariana Sández
Poetry

Three Poems

  • by Tilsa Otta

Three Poems from Invisible Border

  • by Rodrigo Figueroa

Three Poems

  • by Julio C. Bolívar

Water’s Wanderings

  • by Julio Cortázar
Essays

Imagined Lands

  • by Eduardo Berti

The Silence Guard

  • by Manuel Iris

Why Poems in Times Without Poetry? Notes for the Reconsideration of Poetic Form

  • by Micaela Paredes Barraza

The Craft of Suspicion: The Essay in the Social Sciences

  • by Ricardo Forster
Interviews

We’ve Never Been This Virtual Before (Twitter, May 22nd, 10:16am): An Interview with Margo Glantz

  • by Claudia Cavallin

The Process of Making Writings: A Conversation with Verónica Gerber Bicecci

  • by Óscar Daniel Campo, Verónica Gerber Bicecci

John Better: a Career Out of Limbo

  • by George Henson

Ten Questions about Discípulos y maestros 2.0: An Interview with Will H. Corral

  • by Víctor Carreño, Will H. Corral
Latin American Literary Criticism

Criticism and Policing: Contemporary Literary Thought in the Andean Region

  • by Antonio Villarruel

The Argentine Critic at the Moment of Revision

  • by Marcela Croce

Literary Criticism in Mexico, Old and New Discussions

  • by Maricruz Castro Ricalde

Latin American Criticism: Chronicle of a Resurrection Foretold

  • by Will H. Corral
Translation Previews and New Releases

From Eartheater

  • by Dolores Reyes

From Ramifications

  • by Daniel Saldaña París

From The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life

  • by Ricardo Piglia
On Translation: Seeking Publisher

Romper el bloqueo cultural: Translation and Solidarity in El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn

  • by Olivia Lott
Nota Bene

Nota Bene: November 2020

  • by LALT Team
Book Reviews

Ximena de dos caminos by Laura Riesco

  • by Giovanna Pollarolo

Los caídos by Carlos Manuel Álvarez

  • by Barbara D. Riess

Te acuerdas del mar by Óscar Godoy Barbosa

  • by Alex Castillo

Poeta chileno by Alejandro Zambra

  • by José Manuel Tagle Vargas

Nuestra piel muerta by Natalia García Freire

  • by Arianna Tognelli

Mejor el fuego by José Carlos Yrigoyen

  • by Daniela Ramírez

La insumisa by Cristina Peri Rossi

  • by Leonor Courtoisie

The Cardboard House by Martín Adán

  • by César Ferreira

La carretera será un final terrible by Andrea Mejía

  • by Giovanni Figueroa

Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country by Cristina Rivera Garza

  • by María Inés Canto

Gente en las sombras by Jaime Collyer

  • by Marco Antonio de la Parra

Obra completa by Juan L. Ortiz

  • by Rafael Toriz

Decir Berlín, decir Buenos Aires by Saúl Sosnowski

  • by Leonel Alvarado

Cocodrilos en la noche by Gisela Heffes

  • by Hernán Vera Álvarez

Cerca del corazón salvaje by Clarice Lispector

  • by Lucía Tennina

El asesino melancólico by Jacinta Escudos

  • by Nicasio Urbina

Calle Flamingo: Antología Marica by Izka Lozano Rodriguez (ed.)

  • by Ivonne Alonso-Mondragón

Antología inventada by Rafael Courtoisie

  • by Néstor Mendoza

Alguien al otro lado de la línea by Iván Ulchur Collazos

  • by Jorge Eliécer Ordóñez Muñoz
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