Rosario Castellanos

• Jan-1988
• / General Fiction
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Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play...

• Jan-1992
• / General Fiction
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The magic and malice of warring gods and men crowd this novel of Mexico's turbulent history, written by Mexico's most important modern woman writer. Rosario Castellanos' towering fictional achievement is wonderfully conveyed in Irene Nicholson's tran...

• Feb-1993
• / General Fiction
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Written in 1960, these stories unfold in the Mexican state of Chiapas—the later site of the Zapatista uprising, and the author addresses controversial questions of power, class, race, and language, giving insight into the historical background ...

• Aug-1998
• / General Fiction
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Set in the highlands of the Mexican state of Chiapas, The Book of Lamentations tells of a fictionalized Mayan uprising that resembles many of the rebellions that have taken place since the indigenous people of the area were first conquered by Europea...

• Sep-1998
• / Literary
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A masterpiece of contemporary Latin American fiction from Mexico's greatest twentieth-century woman writerOficio de tinieblas draws on two centuries of struggle among the Maya Indians, the white landowners, and the conflicted mestiza class in the Chi...