Arturo Arias

AUTHOR

Arturo Arias is Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Redlands. Co-writer for the screenplay for the film El Norte (1984), his most recent novel in English is titled After the Bombs (Curbstone Press, 1990). Author of five novels in Spanish: Despues de las bombas (1979), Itzam Na (1981), Jaguar en Llamas (1989), Los caminos de Paxil (1991) and Cascabel (1998), and winner of the Casa de las Americas Prize and the Anna Seghers Scholarship for two of them, he is a specialist on ethnic issues and subaltern identity, a subject that is a central theme in both his fiction and his academic work. In 1998 he published two books of literary criticism, one on Guatemalan 20th Century fiction, La identidad de la palabra (The Identity of the Word), and another one on contemporary Central American fiction, Gestos Ceremoniales (Ceremonial Gestures). He has finished a new novel in Spanish, Sopa de caracol, and in 2001 published a critical edition of Miguel Angel Asturias's Mulata, and The Rigoberta MenchĂș Controversy, dealing with the recent polemic about Rigoberta MenchĂș testimonial. He has served as President of the Latin American Studies Association for 2001-2003.

Works by Arturo Arias from Curbstone Press:

 After the Bombs

 Rattlesnake


 

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