Short fiction by Spanish American women

Provides a grouping of Spanish-American short stories written by women, emphasizing their differences as much as their similarities.

Bombal's "La historia de Maria Griselda" delves into the family tensions found in a country house in southern Chile.

Somers' mordant, black humour is present in "El derrumbiento", and "Leccion de cocina" is a humorous but pessimistic account of the profound changes that marriage demands from the Mexican middle-class woman. The texts are preceded by an introduction to Spanish-American women's writing and substantial analyses of the stories from a predominantly feminist perspective.