Description: Honoring the lifework of comparatist Lois Parkinson Zamora, this collection traces artistic pathways that connect Latin American culture to the Americas, and to the world beyond. Its essays range from canonical writers like Roberto Bolaño and Gabriel García Márquez to non-cano...
Brief description: Antonio Barrenechea is Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington, USA. He is the author of America Unbound: Encyclopedic Literature and Hemispheric Studies (2016).
Review Quotes:
"Exploring with brio and precision Parkinson Zamora's fields of expertise, the essays in this volume provide a worthy and well-deserved tribute to her eminent career as one of the leading comparatists of her generation." --Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Columbia University
"These beautifully written and profoundly erudite essays, combining political astuteness with literary discernment, historical depth with contemporary resonance, and love of detail with breadth of vision, are a fitting tribute to Lois Parkinson Zamora's path-breaking scholarship. The authors of this collection map out new itineraries for Hemispheric Studies and the study of Latin American literature from a comparative perspective, and in the process offer hope for the future of the field. Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora is cause for celebration." --Maarten van Delden, University of California, Los Angeles "The essays that make up this collection are of a generally high calibre, as befits the occasion. [The] range and quality of its contents attest to the warmth and respect felt towards Professor Parkinson Zamora in the scholarly community at large." --Bulletin of Spanish Studies