The Oxford book of Latin American essays

Curious occurrences / Andrés Bello.

Niagara / Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.

Washington and Bolívar / Juan Montalvo.

At the tomb of Segundo Ruiz Belvis / Eugenio María de Hostas.

Our Bedouins / Manuel González Prada.

The earthquake at Charleston / José Martí.

Theodore Roosevelt / Baldomero Sanín Cano.

The rubber man / Euclides da Cunha.

How a newspaper should be / José Enrique Rodó.

Tobacco and sugar / Fernando Ortiz.

Books I read sitting and books I read standing / José Vasconcelos.

Indian things / Pedro Henriquez Urenã.

My homeland / Gabriela Mistral.

Notes on the American mind / Alfonso Reyes.

Anthropophagite Manifesto / Oswald de Andrade.

Women in the academy / Victoria Ocampo.

Jail: prison memoirs / Graciliano Ramos.

Of hypocrisy / Mario de Andrade.

Art, revolution, and decadence / José Carlos Mariátegui.

Thoreau / Ezequiel Martínez Estrada.

A visit to the Alphonsine chapel / Concha Meléndez.

The use of thought / Samuel Ramos.

America's quixotic character / Jorge Manãch Robato.

Lake Titicaca / Miguel Angel Asturias.

Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges.

El Socorro Lake / Lydia Cabrera. Slaves in newspaper ads / Gilberto Freyre. Do they know us? Do we know them? Do we know each other? / Germán Arciniegas. Josephine Baker in Cuba / Nicolás Guillén. To be Argentine / Eduardo Mallea. A macaw at the pole / Luis Cardoza y Aragón. Prologue: the kingdom of this world / Alejo Carpentier. The Nobel address / Pablo Neruda. The other America / Arturo Uslar Pietri. Anna Karenina / José Bianco. In defense of the essay / Enrique Anderson Imbert. Hermit crabs / Eduardo Caballero Calderón. The great arc of the novel / Ernesto Sábato. Notes for memoirs I'll never write / Jorge Amado.

Summa critica of American culture / José Lezama Lima.

Concerning an American philosophy / Leopoldo Zea.

Books and friendship / Adolfo Bioy Casares.

To dress a shadow / Julio Cortázar.

Mexican Churches / Octavio Paz.

Writing: a metaphor for exile / Augusto Roa Bastos.

Fecundity / Augusto Monterroso.

Horacio Quiroga in the mirror / Emir Rodríguez Monegal.

Interlude in the South Atlantic / Alvaro Mutis.

The writer's commitment / Claribel Alegría.

Ithaca: the impossible return / José Donoso.

Aberrant nostalgia / Sebastián Salazar Bondy.

Once again, sor Juana / Rosario Castellanos.

Creating Brasília / Clarice Lispector.

Literature and exile / Angel Rama.

How I started to write / Carlos Fuentes.

Uses and abuses of the umbrella / Gabriel García Márquez.

Solve this case for me / Jorge Ibargüengoitia.

Scenes of a world without Columbus / Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

Caliban: a question / Roberto Fernández Retamar.

Apocalypse and chaos / Antonio Benítez Rojo.

The perfect page / Alejandro Rossi.

My debt to Flaubert / Salvador Elizondo.

Cinema and the novel / Manuel Puig.

And here's to you, Jesusa / Elena Poniatowska.

Caribbeanness / Luis Rafael Sánchez.

Novels disguised as history / Mario Vargas Llosa.

Writing/Transvestism / Severo Sarduy.

On destiny, language, and translation: or, Ophelia adrift in the C. & O. canal / Rosario Ferré.

Guess your decade / Carlos Monsiváis.

Little manifesto / Luisa Valenzuela.

Temptation of America / Eduardo Galeano.

The spirits were willing / Isabel Allende.

Adiós General / Ariel Dorfman.

Melancholy at the Hotel Empress / Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá.

Letter of 30 June 1994 / Subcomandante Marcos.

I, Rigoberta Menchú / Rigoberta Menchú.

The verbal quest / Ilan Stavans.