Reading Across Latin America | 2022 TBR

Hi all! In this video I explain what led me to start this personal project of reading across Latin America, the contentious discourse around the term “Latin America(n),” and I go through all 10 fantastic books on my 2022 TBR. I hope you all enjoy 😊 TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 08:36 The books!!!! 25:08 End Books/essays mentioned: -Antes que llegue la luz by Mayra Santos-Febres (2021): https://www.amazon.com/Antes-que-lleg... -Our Lady of the Night by Mayra Santos-Febres (2009): https://www.amazon.com/Our-Lady-Night... -Rotundamente negra y otros poemas by Shirley Campbell Barr (2017): https://www.amazon.com/Rotundamente-n... -“Traveling Words: A Reflection on ‘Rotundamente negra’ and Afro-Descendant Women's Cultural Politics” by Dorothy E. Mosby (2016, Meridians): https://read.dukeupress.edu/meridians... -El viejo, el asesino, yo y otros cuentos by Ena Lucía Portela (2009): https://www.amazon.com/Viejo-Asesino-... -El desierto nunca se acaba: Antología by José Watanabe (2013): https://www.amazon.com/El-desierto-nu... -"The World Doesn't Stop for Derek Walcott, or: An Exchange between Coeditors" by Gerald Maa and Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis -Salón de belleza by Mario Bellatin (1999): https://www.amazon.com/Sal%C3%B3n-bel... -Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin, translated by David Shook (2021): https://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Salon-M... -Los jardines de Salomón by Liliana Lara (2014): https://www.amazon.com/jardines-Salom... -Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia by Rigoberta Menchú and Elisabeth Burgos (2007): https://www.amazon.com/llamo-Rigobert... -I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú and Elisabeth Burgos, translated by Ann Wright (2010): https://www.amazon.com/Rigoberta-Menc... -El beso de la mujer araña by Manuel Puig (1976): https://www.amazon.com/El-beso-mujer-... -The Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, translated by Thomas Colchie (1991): https://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Spider-Wo... -Un dia en la vida by Manlio Argueta (1980): https://www.amazon.com/d%C3%ADa-en-vi... -One Day of Life by Manlio Argueta, translated by William Brow (1991): https://www.amazon.com/One-Day-Life-M... -Ancient Tillage by Raduan Nassar, translated by Karen Sherwood Sotelino (2016): https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Tillag... -Lavoura arcaica by Raduan Nassar (1975): https://www.amazon.com/Lavoura-Arcaic... Movies mentioned: -The Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), dir. by Héctor Babenco -Lavoura arcaica/To the Left of the Father (2001), dir. by Luiz Fernando Carvalho Add me on Goodreads:   / shanice