Gwendolyn Diaz. Women and Power in Argentine Literature: Stories, Interviews, and Critical Essays. Austin. University of Texas Press. 2007. xiii + 376 pages, ill. $55 ($24.95 paper). ISBN 978-0-292-71648-3 (71649-0 paper) THIS INSPIRING COLLECTION of the writing of fifteen women (some well-established...

Tarnopolsky, Noga Forward 08-17-2001 Argentine Nights It is a curious development that in the year 2001, fully 18 years after the fall of Argentina's last dictatorship, and facing a complex political situation at home, the government of Israel is establishing what it...

In the following essay, Foster distinguishes between the stereotypes of rural life and the attempted romanticization they inspired versus the realities of that lifestyle by individually examining several prominent works from the period.

In the following excerpt from a longer work on Latin American writing, Torres-Ríoseco traces the evolution of Gaucho literature from its folkloric origins to its later incarnations in the novels of the 1920's.

In the following essay, Kandiyoti compares two works of Jewish immigration fiction: Abraham Cahan's Yekl and Alberto Gerchunoff's Los Gauchos Judios, and with the section on Gerchunoff, she considers how regional politics and nationalism influenced his writing.