Reviews in November 2009

LatAmRoB, Volume 3, Number 11


The best books of 2009

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   The Latin American Review of
   Books
wants you to tell us what
   your favourite five titles of 2009
   have been. It’s easy: just send an
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The guerrilla economist

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Helen Yaffe’s groundbreaking work on Che Guevara’s economic ideas plugs a key gap in the history of revolutionary Cuba and has contemporary resonance Continue reading

Food for thought

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It is time to put that hamburger down and take the Latino diet
and its impact on US tastebuds seriously

 

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The dictatorship of gender

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Argentine novelist Cecilia Szperling - whose Natural Selection has just hit the shelves - would prefer it if readers did not know the gender of a writer Continue reading

Flight of fancy

Rudolfo Anaya has refined his Mexican lodestone
with insistent purpose to ensure that his work carries moral force Continue reading

The Latin@ challenge

If white America’s majority is eroding in the face of Latino growth, how can the former continue to justify its leadership of the country? Continue reading

Symbolic separation

Patricia Riggen’s first feature, La misma luna, challenges the stereotypes that have so far defined the illegal Mexican immigrant Continue reading

Memories of extinction

A classic tale by Cristina García of two Cuban women bound by blood and destiny has become strangely relevant today Continue reading

Teaching Rebellion

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El olvido

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La nana

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Dreaming in Cuban

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