Conference on Gender, Families,
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Arturo Arias

Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Arturo Arias, is professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His academic books include Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America (2007), The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy (2000), a critical edition of Miguel Angel Asturias’s Mulata (2000), The Identity of the Word: Guatemalan Narrative in Light of the New Century (1998), and Ceremonial Gestures: Central American Literature 1960-1990 (1998). Co-writer of the film El Norte (1984), his most recent novel in English is Rattlesnake (Curbstone Press, 2003). Author of six novels in Spanish – After the Bombs (1979), Itzam Na (1981), Jaguar en Llamas (1989), Los caminos de Paxil (1991), Cascabel (1998) and Sopa de Caracol (2002) – he is winner of the Casa de las Americas Award and the Anna Seghers Scholarship for two of them. After the Bombs also appeared in English with Curbstone Press (1990). He was 2001-2003 President of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).