Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Volume 53, Issue 1 (2020)

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Editor’s Note

Editorial
Editor’s Note
Daniel Shapiro
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Introduction

Introduction
Introduction
Suzanne Jill Levine
Pages: 3-7
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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An Open Novel
Julio Ortega & Mary A. Kilmer
Pages: 8-14
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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The Body of Language and the Language of the Body
Guillermo Sucre & Tom J. Lewis
Pages: 15-20
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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The Baroque Face
Roland Barthes & Susan Homar
Pages: 21-23
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Truth in Triple Masquerade
Leonard Michaels
Pages: 24-28
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Le Fantôme de Lautréamont
Emir Rodríguez Monegal & Suzanne Jill Levine
Pages: 29-36
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Evident Words
David Gallagher
Pages: 37-44
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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The Masked Writer
Roger Caillois & Harry Blair
Pages: 45-49
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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The Dazzling World of Friar Servando
Julio Ortega & Tom J. Lewis
Pages: 50-55
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Writing/ Transvestism
Severo Sarduy & Alfred Mac Adam
Pages: 56-60
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Attempting the Impossible
Mario Vargas Llosa & Susan Jean Pels
Pages: 61-65
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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O C, o, b, r, a, b, a, r, o, c, o: A Text-Twister
Hélène Cixous & Keith Cohen
Pages: 66-73
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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A New World Is Not a Home
John Alexander Coleman
Pages: 74-79
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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The Untranslatable Isadora
Victoria Ocampo
Pages: 80-83
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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William Styron in Mexico
Carlos Fuentes & Margaret Peden
Pages: 84-88
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Borges the Criollo: 1923-1932
Alfred J. Mac Adam
Pages: 89-94
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The Fellowship of Exile
Julio Cortázar & John Incledon
Pages: 95-101
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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The Tradition of Laughter
Emir Rodríguez Monegal & Alfred Mac Adam
Pages: 102-106
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Piñera’s Virgil
Guillermo Cabrera Infante & Alfred Mac Adam
Pages: 107-108
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Malcolm Lowry in the New World: Down and Out in Vancouver and Oaxaca
Douglas T. Day
Pages: 109-115
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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The Imaginary North
Alberto Manguel
Pages: 116-119
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Gabriel García Márquez: El general en su laberinto
John Alexander Coleman
Pages: 120-124
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Farewell to the Man with the Camera
Guillermo Cabrera Infante & Alfred Mac Adam
Pages: 125-129
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Voyage to Caribbean Identity
Luis Rafael Sánchez & Alfred Mac Adam
Pages: 130-133
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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The Boom: A View from Havana
Antonio Benítez-Rojo & James Maraniss
Pages: 134-138
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Further Reading

Bibliography
Further Reading [Links]
Pages: 139-142
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Features

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Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez
Mario Vargas Llosa & Edith Grossman
Pages: 143-144
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Leonora Carrington: The Story of the Last Egg
Gallery Wendi Norris - Offsite Exhibition New York City, May 23, 2019 to June 29, 2019
Margaret Carson
Pages: 145-148
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Portfolio: Leonora Carrington
Pages: 149-155
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From “Opus Siniestrus: The Story of the Last Egg”
Leonora Carrington
Pages: 156-167
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Englishing Edouard Glissant (1959-2019)
A. James Arnold
Pages: 168-171
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Forgotten Journey; The Promise
Silvina Ocampo Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Katie Lateef-Jan. San Francisco: City Lights, 2019Silvina Ocampo Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Jessica Powell. San Francisco: City Lights, 2019
Jason Weiss
Pages: 172-174
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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INRI
Raúl Zurita, Translated by William Rowe. New York: NYRB/Poets, 2018
Juliet Lynd
Pages: 175-177
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond
David William Foster Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016
Edmundo Paz Soldán
Pages: 178-179
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Of Death. Minimal Odes; Fluxo-Floema
Hilda Hilst. Translated by Laura Cesarce Eglin Normal, IL: co•im•press, 2018Hilda Hilst Translated by Alexandra Joy Forman. New York: Nightboat Books, 2018
David William Foster
Pages: 180-182
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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Room in Rome
Jorge Eduardo Eielson. Translated by David Shook. Phoenix: Cardboard House Press, 2019
Mariela Dreyfus
Pages: 183-185
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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