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Elicura Chihuailaf

Volume 1,

Number 16.

November,

2020

In our sixteenth issue, we celebrate Mapuche poet Elicura Chihuailaf, who in 2020 became the first indigenous writer to receive Chile’s National Prize for Literature. We also feature dossiers dedicated to the work of Andrés Neuman, Latin American literary criticism, and the Latin American essay, plus a bilingual selection of texts from Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: 50 Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature commemorating Gabriel García Márquez, the first Latin American author to win the prestigious Neustadt Prize.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: November 2020

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Author: Elicura Chihuailaf

The Water of Life

By Elicura Chihuailaf

“Within each one of us lives the thought of our elders and our ancestors”: A Conversation with Elicura Chihuailaf

By Arthur Malcolm Dixon, Elicura Chihuailaf

Six Poems

By Elicura Chihuailaf

Elicura Chihuailaf: The Task of the Mapuche Translator

By Christian Elguera

Introduction: Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpán, Mapuche Poetry for Our Survival

By Paula Miranda

Dossier: Andrés Neuman

The Art of Bidding Welcome: Andrés Neuman in Translation

By Arthur Malcolm Dixon

A Second Pair of Eyes: A Conversation with Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia

By Arthur Malcolm Dixon

Two Short Stories from The Things We Don’t Do

By Andrés Neuman

Four Poems from Vivir de oído

By Andrés Neuman

Keys to Reading Neuman

By Francisca Noguerol

Dispatches from the Republic of Letters

The Fabulating Gifts of Gabriel García Márquez

By Thor Vilhjálmsson

Allegro Barbaro, or Gabriel García Márquez in Oklahoma

By Ivar Ivask

The Neustadt Prize on the World Stage

By Daniel Simon

Preface

By Robert Con Davis-Undiano

Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: Fifty Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, 1970–2020

Brazilian Literature

Poems from Menino do Mato

By Manoel de Barros

Black Bean Stew

By Luiz Vilela

Chronicle

This Side of Paradise: José Donoso at Princeton

By Antonio Díaz Oliva

Fiction

Birds

By John Templanza Better

Duck Hunter / Caçador de patos

By Juan Pablo Roncone

The Requena Sisters

By Mariana Sández

Poetry

Three Poems

By Tilsa Otta

Three Poems from Invisible Border

By Rodrigo Figueroa

Three Poems

By Julio C. Bolívar

Water’s Wanderings

By Julio Cortázar

Essays

Imagined Lands

By Eduardo Berti

The Silence Guard

By Manuel Iris

Why Poems in Times Without Poetry? Notes for the Reconsideration of Poetic Form

By Micaela Paredes Barraza

The Craft of Suspicion: The Essay in the Social Sciences

By Ricardo Forster

Interviews

We’ve Never Been This Virtual Before (Twitter, May 22nd, 10:16am): An Interview with Margo Glantz

By Claudia Cavallin

The Process of Making Writings: A Conversation with Verónica Gerber Bicecci

By Óscar Daniel Campo, Verónica Gerber Bicecci

John Better: a Career Out of Limbo

By George Henson

Ten Questions about Discípulos y maestros 2.0: An Interview with Will H. Corral

By Víctor Carreño, Will H. Corral

Latin American Literary Criticism

Criticism and Policing: Contemporary Literary Thought in the Andean Region

By Antonio Villarruel

The Argentine Critic at the Moment of Revision

By Marcela Croce

Literary Criticism in Mexico, Old and New Discussions

By Maricruz Castro Ricalde

Latin American Criticism: Chronicle of a Resurrection Foretold

By Will H. Corral

Translation Previews and New Releases

From Eartheater

By Dolores Reyes

From Ramifications

By Daniel Saldaña París

From The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life

By Ricardo Piglia

On Translation: Seeking Publisher

Romper el bloqueo cultural: Translation and Solidarity in El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn

By Olivia Lott

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: November 2020

By LALT Team

Book Reviews

Ximena de dos caminos by Laura Riesco

By Giovanna Pollarolo

Los caídos by Carlos Manuel Álvarez

By Barbara D. Riess

Te acuerdas del mar by Óscar Godoy Barbosa

By Alex Castillo

Poeta chileno by Alejandro Zambra

By José Manuel Tagle Vargas

Nuestra piel muerta by Natalia García Freire

By Arianna Tognelli

Mejor el fuego by José Carlos Yrigoyen

By Daniela Ramírez

La insumisa by Cristina Peri Rossi

By Leonor Courtoisie

The Cardboard House by Martín Adán

By César Ferreira

La carretera será un final terrible by Andrea Mejía

By Giovanni Figueroa

Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country by Cristina Rivera Garza

By María Inés Canto

Gente en las sombras by Jaime Collyer

By Marco Antonio de la Parra

Obra completa by Juan L. Ortiz

By Rafael Toriz

Decir Berlín, decir Buenos Aires by Saúl Sosnowski

By Leonel Alvarado

Cocodrilos en la noche by Gisela Heffes

By Hernán Vera Álvarez

Cerca del corazón salvaje by Clarice Lispector

By Lucía Tennina

El asesino melancólico by Jacinta Escudos

By Nicasio Urbina

Calle Flamingo: Antología Marica by Izka Lozano Rodriguez (ed.)

By Ivonne Alonso-Mondragón

Antología inventada by Rafael Courtoisie

By Néstor Mendoza

Alguien al otro lado de la línea by Iván Ulchur Collazos

By Jorge Eliécer Ordóñez Muñoz

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