Carmen Boullosa Carmen Boullosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 11008669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmen Boullosa Carmen Boullosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmen Boullosa |
| FAMILY NAME | Carmen Boullosa |
| SIGNATURE | BOULLOSA C B C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Heavens on Earth (an excerpt)
In Heavens on Earth, Carmen Boullosa imagines a postapocalyptic world where spoken and written language is banned, memories are obliterated, and history is erased. The novel is narrated through the voices of three translators—Hernando de Rivas, Estela Ruiz, and Lear—who live in three different eras. Narrating from colonial Mexico, Hernando begins to write the history of El Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco in Latin. Five hundred years later,…
The Vision
50 WORLD LITERATURE TODAY photo : jerry bauer The Vision Carmen Boullosa L ast night I dreamed that I was at my dining table with José Manuel Prieto, Eduardo Lago, Eduardo Mitre, and some Anglo-American English speakers—seated as we all had been a few hours earlier. We, the Spanish speakers, had settled in, seeking refuge at one end of the table. We were describing a friend to Lago, a friend who is now deceased, a writer the three of us had known…
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The Vision
50 WORLD LITERATURE TODAY photo : jerry bauer The Vision Carmen Boullosa L ast night I dreamed that I was at my dining table with José Manuel Prieto, Eduardo Lago, Eduardo Mitre, and some Anglo-American English speakers—seated as we all had been a few hours earlier. We, the Spanish speakers, had settled in, seeking refuge at one end of the table. We were describing a friend to Lago, a friend who is now deceased, a writer the three of us had known…
Heavens on Earth (an excerpt)
In Heavens on Earth, Carmen Boullosa imagines a postapocalyptic world where spoken and written language is banned, memories are obliterated, and history is erased. The novel is narrated through the voices of three translators—Hernando de Rivas, Estela Ruiz, and Lear—who live in three different eras. Narrating from colonial Mexico, Hernando begins to write the history of El Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco in Latin. Five hundred years later,…
Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Astronomy (1 work) · Clothing (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work)