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Rabassa downplays his role of spreading the good words of Latin American writing. "The credit belongs to the writers, particularly Jorge Luis Borges and Garcia Marquez, who rediscovered Don Quixote. My theory is that Cervantes was the first magical realist. But then the British stole both the Spanish colonies and the Spanish novel. After that, a lot of Latin American literature merely aped European models. But life and the landscape in South America were always more vivid than conventional fiction could convey. Once writers began breaking the rules, their subjects came alive...
STAFF WRITERS: Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Scott MacLeod, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Amy Wilentz, Laurence Zuckerman...
...Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Margot Hornblower, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis, Wayne Svoboda Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...
...country eats, dresses, dances, plays, ) learns -- the way it lives. Look around. See the special lightning, the distinctive gravity, the portable wit, the personal spin. In theater and films, Latin playwrights and directors supply a fresh vision and voice. The names on the marquee have a Spanish ring: Andy Garcia, Maria Conchita Alonso, the inspirational actor Edward James Olmos. In fashion and design, painting and architecture, critics laud the Latino artists whose work owes its strength to aesthetic merit, not simply ethnic novelty. And as they cross over into the American imagination, Hispanics are sending one irresistible message: we come...
...these four playwrights, Sanchez-Scott is closest to the Latin American tradition of "magic realism," in which visionary or hallucinatory elements coexist with a gritty naturalism much as they do in the fiction of Borges and Garcia Marquez. In the play on which her reputation rests, Roosters, what seems a straightforward depiction of the life of farmhands gives way to mysterious visitations, symbolic cockfights enacted by dancers, virginal girls wearing wings, archetypal confrontations between father...