Volume 12, Number 1, Fall 1996 (Full Report)

Studies and Confluences

• Textual Economy and the Economics of Gender Relations in Costa Rican Versions of "Las señas del marido"
  Henry Cohen

• Lesbian Themes in Luz María Umpierre's “The Margarita Poems” and “Y otras desgracias. And Other Misfortunes”
  Elena M. Martínez

• Validating Feminine Consciousness: Ritual and "Sacred Space" in Laura Esquivel's “Like Water for Chocolate”
  Rosa Fernández-Levin

• Juan Luis Martínez: The Novelist of Non-Existence
  Scott Jackson

• Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Cuba in “View of Dawn in The Tropics”
  Belén S. Castañeda

• "Dying Players: Ramirez's 'EI Centerfield' and Dybek's 'Death of the Rightfielder'"
  Jorge Febles

• Menippean Satire and Skaz in “Raining Backwards”
  William O. Deaver, Jr.

• Africa as Metaphor and Parodic Frame in Juan Goytisolo's Trilogy
  Andrew Sobiesuo.

Book Review

• “The Memories of Ana Calderón” de Graciela Limón
  Marcus Embry

• “Theoretical Fables: The Pedagogical Dream in “Contemporary Latin American Fiction” de Alicia Borinsky
  Raymond Leslie Williams

Volume 11, Number 2, Spring 1996
(Full Report)

Studies and Confluences

• Ernesto Cardenal's Cántico cósmico: A Vision for the Future
  Ruth Kauffmann

• The Interplay of Life and Theater in “Ida y vuelta” by Mario Benedetti
  James Troiano

• Chicano, Gay and Doomed: AIDS in Arturo Islas' “The Rain God”
  Manuel de Jesús Vega

• “La Malinche”: A Feminist Perspective on Otherness in Mexican and Chicano Literature
  Elba D. Birmingham-Pokorny

• Searching Anaya, Sainz, Fuentes and Baca for a Common, Cultural Center
  Phil J. Davis

Creative Dimension

• Mama’s tortillas / La muerte de un águila /Lessons mother never taught me / Red Choos / The first time
  Trinidad Sanchez, Jr.

Book Review

• "El infarto del alma” de Diamela Eltit y Paz Errázuriz
  Gisela Norat

• “An English Anthology of Afro-Hispanic Writers of the Twentieth Century” de Elba D. Birmingham-Pokorny
  Treadwell Merrill

Volume 11, number 1, fall 1995 (Reporte completo)

Studies and Confluences

• Chicano as “Bricoleur”: Christianity and Mythmaking in Rudolfo Anaya's “Bless Me, Ultima”
  Frederick S. Holton

• The Cultural Past and Artistic Creation in Sandra Cisneros' “The House on Mango Steet” and Judith Ortiz Cofer's “Silent Dancing”
  Laurie Grobman

• Humanistic Science in Macondo: The Missing link
  Mark Mosher

• A Genetic Approach to Augusto Roa Bastos's “Hijo del hombre”
  Helene C. Weldt-Basson

Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 1995
(Full Report)

Studies and Confluences

• Life Lines: Ribbons On and Off the Page
  Wendy Faris

• Hijuelos' “Mambo Kings”: Reading from Divergent Traditions
  Juan Bruce Novoa.

• Dismantling Sexual Politics in José Donoso's "Chatanooga Choochoo”
  Norma Helsper

• Carlos Varo's “Rosa Mystica”: The Road to Perfection instead of Destruction
  Herbert E. Craig

• Spanish Dialect Features in Chicano Literature: Short Stories by Alfonso Rodríguez
  Mary Beth Floyd

• The Use of Jungle Imagery in the Paintings of Alfredo Arreguín
  Mary Motian-Meadows

Book Review

• “Retrato de un poeta: Rubén Vela” de Yolanda Rosas
  Nélida Norris

Creative Dimension

• "The American Way"
  Mary Helen Ponce