Teaching the Latin American Boom

Lucille Kerr is professor of Latin American literature in the Deptartment of Spanish and Portuguese and an affiliated faculty member in comparative literary studies, Jewish studies, and Latin American and Caribbean studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Suspended Fictions: Reading Novels by Manuel Puig and Reclaiming the Author: Figures and Fictions from Spanish America. She is the director of the Web-based Latin American Literature and Film Archive and a review editor of the Latin American Literary Review. Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan. In addition to writing Narrativas Hibridas and The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco' s Spain, he has guest-edited a special issue for Symposium on "New Latin American Narrative" and coedited Market Matters, a special issue of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.

"The attention to the framing of the Boom makes this volume more than just a study of the Boom; it stretches to cover a great deal of territory, literarily speaking, of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature. This is a very important addition to the series." --Gwen Kirkpatrick, Georgetown University