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Far from my Mother's Home
By Bárbara Mujica. E.L. Doctorow-award-winning stories of
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Bárbara Mujica is the author of a novel, The Deaths of Don Bernardo (1990) and
a collection of short stories, Far from My Mother's Home. She recently completed another
novel entitled Affirmative Actions. Her fiction has appeared in several anthologies,
including Where Angels Glide at Dawn: New Stories from Latin America, eds. Lori M. Carlson
and Cynthia Ventura, intro. Isabel Allende (1990, paperback 1993), Two Worlds Walking,
eds. C. W. Truesdale and Diane Glancy (1994), and The Secret: Stories by Chilean Women,
ed. Marjorie Agosín (1 994), as well as in magazines such as The Literary Review, The
Antietam Review, Women: A Journal of Liberation, Término, The New Southern Literary
Messenger, Plaza (Harvard University), Letras femeninas, and Nuestro.
Her articles on
Hispanic and women's issues have appeared in hundreds of publications, including The New
York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, The International Herald Tribune, The
Houston Chronicle, The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, The Washington Review, Washington
Woman, The World and I (cultural magazine of The Washington Times), the Journal
newspapers, Americas (the magazine of the Organization of American States), and Vista (a
Sunday supplement magazine distributed with major newspapers in cities with large Hispanic
populations).
Barbara Mujica is
author or co-author of more than fifty books on Hispanic culture, literature and language,
among them Texto y vida: Introducción a la literatura española (1990), Texto y vida:
Introducción a Ia literatura latinoamericana (1992), Antología de la literatura
española, Vols. I and II (1991), the first two of a four-volume critical anthology, and
Premio Nóbel (forthcoming), a critical anthology of Hispanic Nobel Prize winners. She has
lectured widely in the United States and Canada and has given fiction readings in the
Washington area.
In 1984 she received a
fiction reading grant through Poets and Writers of New York and The Antietam Review. Two
years later her story “Women” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 1990 her
essay on bilingualism was named one of the 50 best op-ed pieces of the decade by The New
York Times. In 1992 she won the E. L. Doctorow International Fiction Competition for her
story Xelipe. She has been interviewed on numerous television and radio talk shows. She is
a Full Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University, where she teaches Spanish literature
and directs El Retablo, a Spanish-language theater group.
Originally from Los
Angeles, Bárbara Mujica did her undergraduate work at U.C.L.A. and the Universidad
Autónoma de México. She has family in Chile and has lived and traveled extensively in
Latin America. She received her M.A. in French through the Middlebury program at the
University of Paris and her Ph.D. in Spanish from New York University.
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