The Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures, the M.A. Program in Spanish, and Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group are pleased to invite the general public
to a celebration for

Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas
Contemporary Latin American Women Writers (no. 108)

The event will be led by Daniel Shapiro, Editor; with remarks by Dr. Carlos Riobó, Chair of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures; followed by a conversation, in English, with co-Guest Editors Carmen Boullosa (CUNY) and Lucía Melgar (ITAM).

For further information: dshapiro@ccny.cuny.edu

Review 108, guest-edited by Carmen Boullosa (Macaulay Honors College, CUNY)
and Lucía Melgar (ITAM, Mexico) showcases the work of women scholars as well
as fiction and non-fiction writers and poets active throughout Latin America.
Melgar contextualizes Latin American women’s writing and introduces essays by
scholars Alejandra Giovanna Amatto Cuña, Irma Pineda, Daniela Rea, and Socorro
Venegas on themes including new Latin American fiction by women, contemporary
Indigenous women’s writing, challenges faced by Latin American women journalists, and the role of UNAM’s Vindictas program in promoting forgotten and emerging Latin American women writers. Boullosa’s introduction acknowledgesiconic figures such as Lydia Cabrera, Nelly Campobello, the Ocampo sisters, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Alejandra Pizarnik,
and details the creative contents, representing various generations, countries, and traditions. These include an interviewwith authors Diamela Eltit and Margo Glantz; followed by fiction, non-fiction, testimonial writing, and poetry by AveBarrera, Liliana Colanzi, Ramona de Jesús, Paula Mónaco Felipe, Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, Carmen Villoro, and others.The issue also showcases drawings by artist Magali Lara. Review 108 presents two special Features—an excerpt from Suzanne Jill Levine’s memoir, Faithful: A Life in Translation; and Ana María Hernández del Castillo’s essay on Mario Vargas Llosa’s Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, edited from her lecture for CCNY’s 2023 Cátedra Mario Vargas Llosa. The issue includes reviews of titles in translation by authors Boullosa, Ariel Dorfman, María Negroni,
and Juan Gabriel Vásquez, and by artist Hélio Oiticica. Cover image by Magali Lara. Cover design: Daimys García.

Review is published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, in association with The City College of New York, CUNY,
Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures.
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For the Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures (CMLL), contact Dr. Carlos Riobó: criobo@ccny.cuny.edu .
For the M.A. Program in Spanish, contact Dr. Regina Castro-McGowan: rcastro-mcgowan@ccny.cuny.edu
Grateful acknowledgment is made to CCNY’s Division of Humanities and the Arts
for its generous support.