Marcy Schwartz
Publications
Books published
Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
(SUNY Press, 1999)
Reviewed in: South Atlantic Review 67.3 (2002) by Cecilia Castro Lee
Latin American Research Review 39.3 (2004): 233-242 by Gorica Majstorovic
MLN 117.2 (2002): 517-519 by Diane Marting
Revista Iberoamericana 66.193 (2000): 920-22 by Julie Jones
Modern Language Review 95.4 (2000): 1112-1113 by Paul Jordan
Iberoamericana 1.2 (2001): 259-60 by Vera Gerling
Hispanic Outlook 1/20/2000: 55
Choice 37.4 (December 1999) by N.R. Fitch
Voice-Overs: Translation and Latin American Literature (co-edited with Daniel Balderston)
(SUNY Press, 2002)
Reviewed in: Cadernos de Tradução 16.2 (2005): 283-86 by Justyna Szychowska
Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 7 (2005): 301
Translation Review 8.2 (2002): 59
Hispanic Review 71 (2003): 444-46 by Sergio Waisman
MLN 119.2 (2004): 388-392 by Todd Garth
Photography and Writing in Latin America: Double Exposures (co-edited with Mary Beth
Tierney-Tello) (U New Mexico P, 2006)
Reviewed in: Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 31.2 (2007): 384-85 by Rubén Gallo
Invenciones urbanas: ficción y ciudad latinoamericanas (Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2010)
Articles in a refereed journal or collection
“Public Stakes, Public Stories: Service Learning in Literary Studies,” PMLA special issue
“Work” (forthcoming)
“Instructions for How to Teach the Boom in Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela,” Teaching the Latin
American Boom, eds. Alejandro Herrera-Olaizola and Lucille Kerr, MLA (forthcoming)
Translation, introduction, and critical bibliography of Gérard Genette, “L’Utopie Littéraire,”
Criticism in Translation series, PMLA (forthcoming).
“The Right to Imagine: Reading in Community with People and Stories/Gente y Cuentos,”
PMLA 126.3 (2011): 746-52.
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“Escribir contra la ciudad: fotos y texto en Prosa del observatorio de Julio Cortázar,” Cuadernos
LIRICO 7, Arqueologías: borradores, archivos, genealogías de escritura, ed. Julio Premat,
Réseau Interuniversitaire d'Etudes sur les Littératures Contemporaines du Río de la Plata,
on line forthcoming 2012
“The Writing on the Wall: Urban Cultural Studies and the Power of Aesthetics,” in City/Art: The
Urban Scene in Latin America, ed. Rebecca Biron, Durham: Duke UP, 2009, 127-44.
“Perilous Peripheries: Translation and Identity in Jorge Luis Borges,” Variaciones Borges 23
(2007): 21-36.
“Short Circuits: Gendered Itineraries in Recent Urban Fiction Anthologies from Latin America,”
Chapter 1 in Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America, eds. Anne
Lambright and Elisabeth Guerrero, U MN P, 2007, 3-26.
“Clues toward an Introduction, or How We Are All Ethnographers” introduction to invited
thematic cluster on “Cluelessness and Difference in the Literature Classroom,” ed. Marcy
Schwartz, Pedagogy 7.2 (2007): 171-81.
“Writing against the City: Julio Cortázar’s Photographic Take of India,” Photography and
Writing in Latin America: Double Exposures (co-edited with Mary Beth Tierney-Tello)
Albuquerque: U New Mexico P, 2006, 117-139.
“Introduction,” Photography and Writing in Latin America: Double Exposures (co-edited with
Mary Beth Tierney-Tello), Albuquerque: U New Mexico P, 2006, 1-21, co-authored with
Mary Beth Tierney-Tello.
“Paris under Her Skin: Luisa Futoransky’s Urban Inscriptions of Exile” in Luisa
Futoransky y su palabra itinerante, ed. Ester Gimbernat González, Montevideo:
Hermes Criollo, 2005, 171-201.
“‘Los intelectuales que no nos ubicamos nunca:’ Entrevista inedita con Daniel Moyano,”
Revista Iberoamericana 69.204 (2003): 717-726.
“Del extrañamiento al exilio: el “no-lugar” urbano en la ficción hispanoamericana de fin de siglo
XX,” Mas allá de la ciudad letrada: crónicas y espacios urbanos, eds. Silvia Spitta and
Boris Muñoz, Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2003, 333351.
“Between Crónica and Cuento: Alfredo Bryce Echenique’s Storied Journal in Diario triste de
París,” in Los mundos de Alfredo Bryce Echenique: nuevos textos críticos, editors César
Ferreira and Ismael P. Márquez, Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad
Católica del Perú, 2003, 97-104.
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“Introduction,” Voice-Overs: Translation and Latin America Literature, Albany: SUNY P, 2002,
1-12, co-authored with Daniel Balderston.
“Cortázar Under Exposure: Photography and Fiction in the City,” in Beyond the Lettered City:
Latin American Literature and Mass Media, eds. Debra Castillo and José Edmundo PazSoldán, Garland Press, 2000, 117-138.
"París no siempre era una fiesta. . . : La política transnacional de la cultura en La danza inmóvil
de Manuel Scorza," Revista Iberoamericana 63.180 (1997): 437-448.
"Writing Paris: Topographies of Desire in Latin American Urban Identity," Monographic
Review / Revista Monográfica 12 (1996): 353-365.
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"Tradition and Treason: Sacred Translation in Two Stories by Borges and Chekhov,"
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 23.4 (1996): 1085-1095.
"Cortázar's Plural Parole: Multilingual Shifts in the Short Fiction," Romance Notes 36.2
(1995): 331-338.
"On the Border: Cultural and Linguistic Trespassing in Alfredo Bryce Echenique's La vida
exagerada de Martín Romaña and El hombre que hablaba de Octavia de Cádiz," Los
mundos de Alfredo Bryce Echenique: textos críticos, editors César Ferreira and Ismael P.
Márquez, Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 1994,
215-231. Reprinted in Los mundos de Alfredo Bryce Echenique: nuevos textos críticos,
editors César Ferreira and Ismael P. Márquez, Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú, 2003, 285-298.
"The Function of the Fantastic in Clarín's La Regenta," Romanic Review (Jan. 1993): 19-30.
"Cultural Exile and the Canon: Writing Paris into Contemporary Latin American Narrative,"
Paradise Lost or Gained? The Literature of Hispanic Exile, eds. Jorge Ruffinelli and
Fernando Alegría, Houston: Arte Público Press, 1990, 192-210.
Women Writing in Latin America: An Anthology, eds. Sara Castro-Klarén, Sylvia Molloy,
Beatriz Sarlo, Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991, translated texts by Magda Portal, Hebe de
Bonafini and Paolina Luisi, 249-253, 263-272, 280-289.
Articles in a non-refereed journal or collection
“Words on Images of Jean-Pierre Vorlet: Excavations of Meaning,” Jean-Pierre Vorlet:
Affiches Déchirées. Lausanne, Switzerland, 2009, 339-45.
“La lectura con adultos,” Memorias del Séptimo Congreso Nacional de Lectura. Bogotá:
Fundalectura, 2006, 178-85.
“De lado de aca/del lado de alla: la mirada fotográfica de Julio Cortázar, entre continentes,”
Matérika 9 (2005): 28-39; www.materika.com (2004).
“Julio Cortázar y la rabdomancia artística: música, fotografía, arte, literatura,” Matérika (Costa
Rica) 2.4 (2001): 8-16.
Reviews
Hart, Stephen M. and David Wood, eds. Essays on Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Peruvian
Literature and Culture. London: Centre of César Vallejo Studies, 2010 in Bulletin of
Spanish Studies 89 (2012): 827-28.
Graff Zivin, Erin. The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American
Imaginary. Durham: Duke UP, 2008 in Revista Iberoamericana 231.76 (2010): 509-12.
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Williams, Raymond Leslie. The Twentieth Century Latin American Novel. Austin: U TX P,
2003 in Latin American Literary Review 34.67 (2006): 174-76.
Richard, Nelly, Masculine/Feminine: Practices of Difference(s) and The Insubordination of
Signs: Political Change, Cultural Transformation and the Poetics of the Crisis, trans.
Alice A. Nelson and Silvia R. Tandeciarz, Durham: Duke UP, 2004 in Intertexts 9.2
(2005): 183-86.
Waisman, Sergio. Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery. Lewisburg, PA:
Bucknell University Press, 2005 in MLN 121.2 (2006): 497-500.
Weiss, Jason, The Lights of Hope. A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris, NY:
Routledge, 2002 in Revista Iberoamericana 207 (2004): 602-604.
Díaz, Roberto Ignacio, Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues in Spanish American Literature,
Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2002 in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 81.3 (2004): 424-425.
González, Aníbal, Killer Books: Violence, Writing, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American
Narrative, U Texas P, 2001 in MLN 118.2 (2003): 502-504.
Sarlo, Beatriz, Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge, London, Verso, 1993, in MLN 110
(1995): 457-459.
Futoransky, Luisa, Urracas, Buenos Aires, Planeta, 1992, in Hispamérica Dec. 1994, 114-117.
"General Literature" section, Handbook of Latin American Studies no. 52 (1992), annotated
bibliography, co-author Sara Castro-Klarén, 457-465.
"General Literature" section, Handbook of Latin American Studies no. 50 (1990), annotated
bibliography, co-author Sara Castro-Klarén, 409-417.
Books in progress
Public Pages: Reading along the Latin American Streetscape
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