Dictionary Of Mexican Literature

Dictionary of Mexican Literature This page intentionally left blank Dictionary of Mexican Literature Edited by Eladio Cortes GREENWOOD PRESS Westport, Connecticut • London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dictionary of Mexican literature / edited by Eladio Cortes, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-313-26271-3 (alk. paper) 1. Mexican literature—Dictionaries. 2. Mexican literature—20th century—Dictionaries. I. Cortes, Eladio. PQ7106.D53 1992 860.9 '972 '03— dc20 91-10529 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 1992 by Eladio Cortes All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 91-10529 ISBN: 0-313-26271-3 First published in 1992 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Contents Contributors vii Preface xiii Abbreviations Overview of Mexican Letters and Literature Dictionary of Mexican Literature xv xxv 1 Bibliography 737 Index 751 This page intentionally left blank Contributors Ricardo Aguilar, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas, El Paso and director of the Chicano Studies Program. He is a specialist on Mexican literature of the twentieth century, with the focus on the present era. He has published extensively about the latest generation of Mexican writers, in particular those living in the United States. Robert K. Anderson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Spanish at California State University, Stanislaus. He has contributed articles and book reviews on Spanish and Mexican literature to Hispanic Journal, Critica Hispdnica, Revista de Estudios Hispdnicos, and other publications. He has published numerous articles on the work of Elena Garro. Melvin S. Arrington, Jr., is an Associate Professor of modern languages at the University of Mississippi, where he has taught since 1982. The holder of a Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Kentucky, he has written primarily in the field of twentieth-century Spanish American prose fiction. Teresa R. Arrington is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Mississippi. He received her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. She has published articles about Spanish linguistics, foreign language teaching methologoy, transformational grammar, and Latin American feminist literature. She is currently the Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Mississippi Foreign Language Association. Mirta Barrea-Marlys is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Rutgers University in Camden. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Her major field of studies is nineteenth century literature. She has presented papers and published articles on the work of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda and other women writers of that period. Denise Guagliardo Bencivengo has completed her doctoral education at the University of Pennsylvania. She has studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and at the Miguel de Cervantes Institute in Madrid. She currently chairs the Foreign Language Department at Princeton Day School in Princeton, New Jersey. Carmen Blazquez Dominguez is a native of Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Her doctorate is from El Colegio de Mexico. Presently she is a full-time researcher at the Center of Historical Research of the Humanistic Research Institute of the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico. She is the author of se