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A twentieth-century Mexican philosopher considers the culture of his native land.

In his quest to understand and describe the behavior of the Mexican, the distinguished Mexican psychologist R. Diaz-Guerrero combines a strong theoretical interest in the relationship of culture to personality with a pragmatic concern for methodology.

A perceptive examination of the Mexican reality as revealed through the nation's novel.

The first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system.

This book, a much-needed critical study of Paradiso, Oppiano Licario, and Lezama's essays, is an exploration in reading, one that highlights and preserves the essential and persistent contradictions in Lezama's theory and practice of literature.

An English translation of the first major Spanish American novel to protest the plight of native peoples.

An aesthetic history of a Mexican art school.

This English-Spanish bilingual anthology introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a representative selection of his best work from all phases of his career.

This bilingual collection, drawn primarily from Poesias completas y el minutero, offers English-language readers our first book-length introduction to Lopez Velarde's poetry.

This study explores the work of eight satirists of the colonial period and shows how their literary innovations had a formative influence on the development of the modern Latin American novel, essay, and autobiography.

Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View is the first full-scale examination in English of this major writer's work.

A biography of a 20th century Mexican philosopher and educator.

Widely considered Sergio Galindo's best work, this novel dramatizes a sexually liberated woman's obsession with an outlaw lover, played against the backdrop of Mexican history from 1910 to 1940.

In this book, Naomi Lindstrom offers English-language readers a comprehensive survey of the twentieth century's literary production in Latin America (excluding Brazil).

In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works.

A queer reading of literary and cultural aspects of Latin American texts.

A collection of ten essays that offer interpretations of the survival and adaptation of lowland Maya culture from its earliest contact with the Spanish to the 1970s.

A history of the early years of the Mexican Revolution.

This book brings together an important collection of modern-day Aztec Indian folktales and vividly demonstrates how these tales have been shaped by the social structure of the communities in which they are told.

This book is an attempt to integrate research on Latin American social organization within a single theoretical framework: development as fundamentally a political problem.

In this study, David William Foster examines more than two dozen texts that deal with gay and lesbian topics, drawing from them significant insights into the relationship between homosexuality and society in different Latin American countries and time pe

This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin America's, major writers of the twentieth century.

This book collects thirty-six notable essays by twenty-two women writers, including Flora Tristan, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Rosario Ferre, Christina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska.

This book adds depth to our understanding of the political and religious elite ruling in Panama at thetime of the European conquest.

Pulltrouser Swamp conclusively demonstrates the existence of hydraulic, raised-field agriculture in the Maya lowlands between 150 B.C. and A.D. 850.

This ethnographic study of the Panare Indians of Venezuela is the first extensive look at a tribe of this region of the Amazonia.

Sarah Blaffer analyzes the position of anomalies in societies in this stidy of a norm-offending, yet norm-reinforcing, specter who by his character and actions demonstrates the proper sex roles for Zinacantec men and women.

A novel about life in a small Mexican town during the Revolution.

The stories in this volume reflect Machado's post-1880 emphasis on social satire and experimentation in psychological realism.

This novel is the diary of a thoughtful man facing the imminent prospect of death and trying to find the meaning of life.