Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia

The recently published encyclopedic work The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel since 1945 (Williams, 2007) (RR 2009/68) identifies 383 authors from the region of whom 101 are female writers; the volume under review now identifies some 250 female writers from Latin America. The sheer size of this volume is surely positive proof of the significant contribution of women writers to the literary corpus of the countries which make up the Latin American subcontinent. As Latin American studies become a recognised area for study in the academic institutions of the United States and United Kingdom the...