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Pages in category "Hispanic and Latino American short story collections" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The story was set there about 20 years later. The Slaughter Yard (Spanish El matadero, title often imprecisely translated as The Slaughterhouse, is a short story by the Argentine poet and essayist Esteban Echeverría (1805–1851). It was the first Argentine work of prose fiction. It is one of the most studied texts in Latin American literature.
Pages in category "Hispanic and Latino American short story writers" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories is a book of short stories published in 1991 by the Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros.The collection reflects Cisneros's experience of being surrounded by American influences while still being familially bound to her Mexican heritage as she grew up north of the Mexico-US border.
The Argentine Jorge Luis Borges invented what was almost a new genre, the philosophical short story, and would go on to become one of the most influential of all Latin American writers. At the same time, Roberto Arlt offered a very different style, closer to mass culture and popular literature, reflecting the urbanization and European ...
Ella sigue de viaje (She travels on – 2005) included the story, El cielo de Neuquén (The sky of Neuquén), winner of the Edmundo Valadés Latin American Short Story Prize. [5] His flash fiction work "El emigrante" (The Migrant), the first story in Ella sigue de viaje, may be the shortest story in the Spanish language. [6]
Arévalo Martínez is remembered mostly for the title story of his collection El hombre que parecía un caballo (1920; "The Man Who Resembled a Horse"), which was once considered the most famous Latin American short story of the 20th century. First published in 1915, the story was so successful that Arévalo made other experiments in the same vein.
Since the Latino community is heavily diverse the work is expansive. There is not a single voice in this field but a combination of unique voices, styles, feelings, and stories. Whether the writer is from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central America or an Indigenous Latino, all the cultures contribute their own distinct perspective.
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