Femfatales

"The first major study on the works of the Mexican novelist, âAngeles Mastretta, demonstrating the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays"--Provided by publisher.

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

A romance between a priest and a nun-in-training leads to her pregnancy and his suicide. She is Gabriella Harrison, daughter of parents who abandoned her to a convent. The affair leads to her expulsion and she becomes a writer.

A critical edition of the original version of Calderón’s masterpiece, based on the text contained in the Zaragoza Parte (1636). Now republished for the first time since the seventeenth century, the "Zaragoza" version is preceded by a lengthy introductory study in which Ruano offers important evidence and new deductions convincingly to establish that Calderón wrote two versions of La vida es sueño (Life’s a Dream): a first version – the "Zaragoza" play, written probably before 1630 and primarily for performance – and a revised version (1635) for publication in the "Primera parte" of ...