Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America

- This anthology is edited and commented by two experts in Peninsular Spanish and Latin American fantastic short fiction respectively: Dr Patricia Garcia, Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, and Dr Teresa Lopez-Pellisa, Assistant Professor at the Universidad de las Islas Baleares. - It includes introductions to the life and work of female authors who are not very well known in the Anglophone world due to the lack of translations of their works. Our critical work with a feminist focus will provide a helpful framework for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK and US. - A wide-ranging bibliography will be of great assistance to those looking to pursue research on the fantastic or on any of the specific writers and texts. - This book is endorsed by the British Academy as part of the project Gender and the Fantastic in Hispanic Studies, and by an established international network, namely the Grupo de Estudios sobre lo Fantastico, based in the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. - We have secured copyright permissions by the authors to publish these short stories.

This critical anthology provides a selection and critical readings of fictions by Spanish and Latin American women writers, covering a range of fantastic tropes that attest to the richness and subversive potential of female fantastic fiction in the Spanish language.The fantastic has been and is particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism. While these writers' works have done much to establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary canon, women authors from Spain and Latin America are not always acknowledged, and their work is less well known to readers. The aim of this critical anthology is to render Hispanic female writers of the fantastic visible, to publish a representative selection of their work, and to make it accessible to English-speaking readers. Five short stories are presented by five key authors. They attest to the richness and diversity of fantastic fiction in the Spanish language, and extend from the early twentieth to the twenty-first century, covering a range of nationalities, cultural references and language specificities from Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina.