Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
School of Humanities

Latin American literature, literary theory, and women's studies

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Lucía Guerra was born in Santiago, Chile and she is at present professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Irvine. As a critic, she specializes in Critical Theory, Gender Studies, and Creative Writing. Her article entitled "Cutural Identity and the Dilemma of Self in Latin American Women's Literature" won the Plural Essay Award in 1987. Her book La mujer fragmentada: Historias de un signo was awarded the Casa de las Américas Prize in 1994. She has published about seventy critical essays in scholarly magazines in Europe, Latin America, and the U.S.A. In 1979, Lucía Guerra won the Annual Translation Award sponsored by Columbia University and the Council of the Arts, for her book New Islands, a translation of María Luisa Bombal's work which was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1981.

As a fiction writer, Lucía Guerra intends to give voice to women's silenced experiences; in her writing she denounces social subordination and she explores the subversive power of female eroticism. In 1989, her short story entitled "The Virgins Passion" obtained the first Prize in the international contest sponsored by the magazine Plural in Mexico. Her collection of short stories entitled Frutos Extraños obtained in 1991 the Primio Letras de Oro sponsored by the University of Miami and the government of Spain. In 1992, Frutos Extraños also won the Municipal Prize of Literature in Chile. In 1997, Lucía Guerra received the Gabriela Mistral Award (Coté-femmes éditions in Paris) for the outstanding quality of her fiction.

Latin American Web Resources

• Mexican and Latin American Literature: Selected Sources


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• AN INTERNET
  GUIDE TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Mujer y escritura Fundamentos teoricos de la critica feminista

Las Noches de Carmen Miranda.

The Street of Night (a translation of the novel Muñeca brava). Berkshire: Garnet Publishing.
1997

La mujer fragmentada: Historias de un signo. Bogotá: Editorial CoCultura, 1994. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio.
1996

Los dominios ocultos. Bogota: La Oveja Negra.
1998

Más allá de las máscaras. Five editions. Mexico: Premiá Editora, 1984; Pittsburgh: Latin America Literary Review Press, 1986; Santiago, Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1990, 1994, Bogota: Indigo, 1997.

Frutos extraños. Three editions. Caracas: Monte Avila Editores, 1991; Miami: Iberian Studies Institute, 1992; Santiago, Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio
1997

Muñeca brava. Caracas: Monte Avila Editores.
1993

Splintering Darkness: Latin america women in Search of Themselves. Pittsburgh: Latin American Literary Review Press.
1990

Texto e ideología en la narrativa chilena. Minneapolis: The Prisma Institute.
1987

Tradición y marginalidad en la literatura chilena del siglo XX. Los Angeles: Ediciones de la Frontera.
1984

Mujer y sociedad en América Latina. Santiago, Chile: Editorial del Pacífico.
1980

La narrativa de María Luisa Bombal: Una visión de la existencia femenina. Madrid: Editorial Playor
1980

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Last updated
04/27/2007