Edward Waters Hood
Biographic Data
| ID | 1028744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Waters Hood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward Waters |
| FAMILY NAME | Hood |
| SIGNATURE | HOOD E W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Los alemanes by Sergio Del Molino (review)
Technified Muses: Reconfiguring National Bodies in the Mexican Avant-Garde by Sara A. Potter (review)
Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera (review)
Reviewed by: Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera Edward Waters Hood YURI HERRERA Ten Planets Trans. Lisa Dillman. Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2023. 108 pages. TEN PLANETS, a collection of fantasy and science fiction stories, is Yuri Herrera’s most recent work to appear in English translation. Herrera has been markedly productive over the past few years in turning out artfully crafted tales of violence, drug trafficking, and human exploitation in Mexico …
El tercer paraíso by Cristian Alarcón
Reviewed by: El tercer paraíso by Cristian Alarcón Edward Waters Hood CRISTIAN ALARCÓN El tercer paraíso Barcelona. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial. 2022. 295 pages. CHILEAN WRITER Cristian Alarcón was awarded this year's Alfaguara Novel Prize for El tercer paraíso. Alarcón was born in Chile in 1970, then his family was forced to take exile in Argentina after the 1973 military coup led by Augusto Pinochet that ended Salvador Allende's social…
The Lisbon Syndrome by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles
Reviewed by: The Lisbon Syndrome by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles Edward Waters Hood Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles The Lisbon Syndrome Trans. Paul Filev. New York. Turtle Point Press. 2022. 173 pages. EDUARDO SÁNCHEZ RUGELES has had the misfortune of watching his country of origin, Venezuela, descend into an endless nightmare of political persecution and economic hardship under the authoritarian rule of Hugo Chávez and his successors. Born in 1977 in Caracas…
Los abismos by Pilar Quintana
Reviewed by: Los abismos by Pilar Quintana Edward Waters Hood Pilar Quintana Los abismos Barcelona. Alfaguara. 2021. 246 pages. PILAR QUINTANA HAS won the prestigious Alfaguara Novel Prize for 2021 with Los abismos (The abysses). This highly coveted literary recognition, which comes with a significant monetary award, will bring increased international attention to the Colombian writer’s work. Quintana had previously published a collection of shor…
Three Novels by Yuri Herrera
Reviewed by: Three Novels by Yuri Herrera Edward Waters Hood Yuri Herrera Three Novels Trans. Lisa Dillman. Sheffield, UK. And Other Stories. 2021. 272 pages. THIS COLLECTION BRINGS together three superb novellas by Yuri Herrera that had been previously published separately in English translation. Born in 1970 in Actopan, a small town in central Mexico, Herrera studied political science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico before pursu…
Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur
Reviewed by: Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur Edward Waters Hood Manuel Astur Of Saints and Miracles Trans. Claire Wadie. New York. New Vessel Press. 2022. 187 pages. BORN IN 1980 in Sama de Grado, Asturias, Spain, Manuel Astur is a teacher, poet, fiction writer, essayist, and journalist. Of Saints and Miracles is Claire Wadie's fine translation of his second novel, San, el libro de los milagros (2020). Although he has pursued his professio…
Guillermo ArriagaSalvar el fuego
Books in Review are denuded. She shatters her constructed marital idyll, revealing her dead husband as a controlling megalomaniac, given to cruel condescension and predatory engagements with his young assistants. The literary pursuit of this suburban New England septuagenarian widow becomes a channel for the undulations of her unquiet mind, an attempt to preserve the passing of her ungrieved life. “That was what I meant to write all along–my stor…
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HAZAARON KHWAHISHEIN AISI Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi:The Wonderful World of Urdu Ghazals Ed. Anisur Rahman. New Delhi. HarperCollins India. 2019. 456 pages. ANISUR RAHMAN, a former professor of English at Jamia Milia University in New Delhi, is a widely published scholar in the field of New Literatures in English. A poet as well (Earthenware: Sixty Poems, 2018), he is a gifted translator of Urdu poetry into English and vice versa. His bilingual Fi…
Una novela criminal
that the narration is sometimes punctuated by observations originating from what appears to be the author’s voice adds to this impression. For example, the last page features comments directed at readers: “you find this character to be less than convincing ” and “what you find most shocking.” At once playful and directive, these instances of metacommentary ask readers to reconsider their initial reading. Edward Ousselin Western Washington Univers…
El país sí tiene quien le escriba: La narrativa colombiana de entre siglos by Germán D. Carrillo
Reviewed by: El país sí tiene quien le escriba: La narrativa colombiana de entre siglos by Germán D. Carrillo Edward Hood Carrillo, Germán D. El país sí tiene quien le escriba: La narrativa colombiana de entre siglos. Nueva York: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, 2015. Pp. 194. ISBN 978-0-9903455-5-8. Con esta colección de ensayos sobre algunos de los escritores colombianos más influyentes del siglo veinte y de los primeros años del …
Rendición
narrative, Šindelka decides to take a tenpage detour into the boredom and stress of waiting for a train to leave a station. As a character study it also falls flat, as Andrei and Nina and Kryštof are prone to either long, unnatural diatribes on the nature of plants or over-the-top displays of emotion and grief (disappearing into the woods for days at a time, stripping naked, rubbing mud all over their bodies). This is, I suppose , a novel that re…
La noche de la Usina
love’s romanticism. Jeong is a feral trap and release. Jeong kills and births, separates and unites—what we can “come down” or “rise up” with like a disease or cure. We have Jeong for the mother we know or do not know; we have Jeong for the country of our birth as we do for the breath in our bodies, and for these reasons, Jeong is responsible for both acts of great tenderness and violence . For Jeong, we can wage violence on behalf of something a…
Contigo en la distancia by Carla Guelfenbein
about identity and belonging, Peruvian novelist Isaac Goldemberg explores the many artistic possibilities of detective fiction in his fourth novel, Remember the Scorpion. In Peruvian letters, detective fiction has a limited tradition, as compared to that of other countries such as Argentina and Mexico; nevertheless, Goldemberg’s novel overcomes such shortcomings to offer a narrative filled with suspense, melodrama, and social criticism. In May 19…
El mundo de afuera by Jorge Franco
ation of Serbia, which left no room for diplomatic dialogue. The chilling text of the “Ultimatum” to Serbia is fully included in chapter 3, “Juli 1914.” The apocalyptic war, which cost 17 million lives, had started . Sentiments about these events are still controversial among the southern Slavs today, and Princip was recently celebrated as a national hero. Thoroughly researched—Ferk’s knowledge of the Slovenian language gave him new access to ori…
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolao and After
Zoya Pirzad The Space Between Us Amy Motlagh, tr. Oneworld Set in tension-filled Iran, Zoya Pirzad’s novel explores the meaning of family and the consequences of choice through the life of Edmond, an Armenian man, and his daughter, who desires to marry a Muslim. Full of rich prose, this book tackles the deep questions of prejudice in the Middle East while showing the rich diversity of cultures in Iran. A. J. Perry The Old People Thames River Pres…
The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America
Presented as the authentic testimony of the disenfranchised, the colonised, and the oppressed, has in the last two decades emerged as one of the most significant genres of Latin America's post-boom literature. In the political battles that have taken place around the formation of the canon, the testimonio holds a special place: no other single genre of literature has taken up such a large part of current debate. Initially hailed in the 1970s as a…
La niña blanca y los pájaros sin pies
Del amor y otros demonios
La ficcion de Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Viaje y escritura: Viajeros romanticos chilenos
Libro indispensable y exhaustivo que analiza la literatura de viaje no ficticia del siglo XIX en Chile. Se revisan las caracteristicas invariantes de Diarios, Cartas y Memorias de viajes realizados alrededor del mundo, principalmente a los Estados Unidos y Europa. Libro original que descubre nuevas relaciones desde perspectivas metodologicas contemporaneas aplicadas a un tema tan antiguo. Se examina la organizacion particular del discurso de viaj…
La ficcion de Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Repeticion e intertextualidad
Entrevista con Gioconda Belli
Testimonio hispanoamericano: Historia, teoría, poética
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The Novel in the Americas
Doce cuentos peregrinos
Los doce cuentos de este libro fueron escritos en el curso de dieciocho anos y consiguen vision panoramica de imaginacion de Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Esto libro logra captar el estilo y esencia del hombre y del escritor. Estos cuentos relatan cosas extranas que le ocurren latinoamericanos en el viejo continente. Garcia Marquez teje sus historias con el hilo del arraigo caribe, de esa identidad latinoamericana que mas bien parece un aroma caracteri…
Entrevista con Gioconda Belli
Testimonio hispanoamericano: Historia, teoría, poética
La niña blanca y los pájaros sin pies
Del amor y otros demonios
La ficcion de Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Viaje y escritura: Viajeros romanticos chilenos
Libro indispensable y exhaustivo que analiza la literatura de viaje no ficticia del siglo XIX en Chile. Se revisan las caracteristicas invariantes de Diarios, Cartas y Memorias de viajes realizados alrededor del mundo, principalmente a los Estados Unidos y Europa. Libro original que descubre nuevas relaciones desde perspectivas metodologicas contemporaneas aplicadas a un tema tan antiguo. Se examina la organizacion particular del discurso de viaj…
La ficcion de Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Repeticion e intertextualidad
The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America
Presented as the authentic testimony of the disenfranchised, the colonised, and the oppressed, has in the last two decades emerged as one of the most significant genres of Latin America's post-boom literature. In the political battles that have taken place around the formation of the canon, the testimonio holds a special place: no other single genre of literature has taken up such a large part of current debate. Initially hailed in the 1970s as a…
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolao and After
Zoya Pirzad The Space Between Us Amy Motlagh, tr. Oneworld Set in tension-filled Iran, Zoya Pirzad’s novel explores the meaning of family and the consequences of choice through the life of Edmond, an Armenian man, and his daughter, who desires to marry a Muslim. Full of rich prose, this book tackles the deep questions of prejudice in the Middle East while showing the rich diversity of cultures in Iran. A. J. Perry The Old People Thames River Pres…
El mundo de afuera by Jorge Franco
ation of Serbia, which left no room for diplomatic dialogue. The chilling text of the “Ultimatum” to Serbia is fully included in chapter 3, “Juli 1914.” The apocalyptic war, which cost 17 million lives, had started . Sentiments about these events are still controversial among the southern Slavs today, and Princip was recently celebrated as a national hero. Thoroughly researched—Ferk’s knowledge of the Slovenian language gave him new access to ori…
Contigo en la distancia by Carla Guelfenbein
about identity and belonging, Peruvian novelist Isaac Goldemberg explores the many artistic possibilities of detective fiction in his fourth novel, Remember the Scorpion. In Peruvian letters, detective fiction has a limited tradition, as compared to that of other countries such as Argentina and Mexico; nevertheless, Goldemberg’s novel overcomes such shortcomings to offer a narrative filled with suspense, melodrama, and social criticism. In May 19…
El país sí tiene quien le escriba: La narrativa colombiana de entre siglos by Germán D. Carrillo
Reviewed by: El país sí tiene quien le escriba: La narrativa colombiana de entre siglos by Germán D. Carrillo Edward Hood Carrillo, Germán D. El país sí tiene quien le escriba: La narrativa colombiana de entre siglos. Nueva York: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, 2015. Pp. 194. ISBN 978-0-9903455-5-8. Con esta colección de ensayos sobre algunos de los escritores colombianos más influyentes del siglo veinte y de los primeros años del …
Rendición
narrative, Šindelka decides to take a tenpage detour into the boredom and stress of waiting for a train to leave a station. As a character study it also falls flat, as Andrei and Nina and Kryštof are prone to either long, unnatural diatribes on the nature of plants or over-the-top displays of emotion and grief (disappearing into the woods for days at a time, stripping naked, rubbing mud all over their bodies). This is, I suppose , a novel that re…
La noche de la Usina
love’s romanticism. Jeong is a feral trap and release. Jeong kills and births, separates and unites—what we can “come down” or “rise up” with like a disease or cure. We have Jeong for the mother we know or do not know; we have Jeong for the country of our birth as we do for the breath in our bodies, and for these reasons, Jeong is responsible for both acts of great tenderness and violence . For Jeong, we can wage violence on behalf of something a…
Una novela criminal
that the narration is sometimes punctuated by observations originating from what appears to be the author’s voice adds to this impression. For example, the last page features comments directed at readers: “you find this character to be less than convincing ” and “what you find most shocking.” At once playful and directive, these instances of metacommentary ask readers to reconsider their initial reading. Edward Ousselin Western Washington Univers…
Patricio PronMañana tendremos otros nombres
HAZAARON KHWAHISHEIN AISI Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi:The Wonderful World of Urdu Ghazals Ed. Anisur Rahman. New Delhi. HarperCollins India. 2019. 456 pages. ANISUR RAHMAN, a former professor of English at Jamia Milia University in New Delhi, is a widely published scholar in the field of New Literatures in English. A poet as well (Earthenware: Sixty Poems, 2018), he is a gifted translator of Urdu poetry into English and vice versa. His bilingual Fi…
Guillermo ArriagaSalvar el fuego
Books in Review are denuded. She shatters her constructed marital idyll, revealing her dead husband as a controlling megalomaniac, given to cruel condescension and predatory engagements with his young assistants. The literary pursuit of this suburban New England septuagenarian widow becomes a channel for the undulations of her unquiet mind, an attempt to preserve the passing of her ungrieved life. “That was what I meant to write all along–my stor…
The Lisbon Syndrome by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles
Reviewed by: The Lisbon Syndrome by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles Edward Waters Hood Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles The Lisbon Syndrome Trans. Paul Filev. New York. Turtle Point Press. 2022. 173 pages. EDUARDO SÁNCHEZ RUGELES has had the misfortune of watching his country of origin, Venezuela, descend into an endless nightmare of political persecution and economic hardship under the authoritarian rule of Hugo Chávez and his successors. Born in 1977 in Caracas…
Los abismos by Pilar Quintana
Reviewed by: Los abismos by Pilar Quintana Edward Waters Hood Pilar Quintana Los abismos Barcelona. Alfaguara. 2021. 246 pages. PILAR QUINTANA HAS won the prestigious Alfaguara Novel Prize for 2021 with Los abismos (The abysses). This highly coveted literary recognition, which comes with a significant monetary award, will bring increased international attention to the Colombian writer’s work. Quintana had previously published a collection of shor…
Three Novels by Yuri Herrera
Reviewed by: Three Novels by Yuri Herrera Edward Waters Hood Yuri Herrera Three Novels Trans. Lisa Dillman. Sheffield, UK. And Other Stories. 2021. 272 pages. THIS COLLECTION BRINGS together three superb novellas by Yuri Herrera that had been previously published separately in English translation. Born in 1970 in Actopan, a small town in central Mexico, Herrera studied political science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico before pursu…
Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur
Reviewed by: Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur Edward Waters Hood Manuel Astur Of Saints and Miracles Trans. Claire Wadie. New York. New Vessel Press. 2022. 187 pages. BORN IN 1980 in Sama de Grado, Asturias, Spain, Manuel Astur is a teacher, poet, fiction writer, essayist, and journalist. Of Saints and Miracles is Claire Wadie's fine translation of his second novel, San, el libro de los milagros (2020). Although he has pursued his professio…
Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera (review)
Reviewed by: Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera Edward Waters Hood YURI HERRERA Ten Planets Trans. Lisa Dillman. Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2023. 108 pages. TEN PLANETS, a collection of fantasy and science fiction stories, is Yuri Herrera’s most recent work to appear in English translation. Herrera has been markedly productive over the past few years in turning out artfully crafted tales of violence, drug trafficking, and human exploitation in Mexico …
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