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Gisela Heffes at Brazos Bookstore

  • Brazos Bookstore 2421 Bissonnet Street Houston, TX, 77005 United States (map)

Gisela Heffes is a writer and a Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at Rice University. She is the editor of the annotated anthology Judíos/Argentinos/Escritores (1999), and author of two monographs: Las ciudades imaginarias en la literatura latinoamericana (2008) and Políticas de la destrucción / Poéticas de la preservación. Apuntes para una lectura (eco)crítica del medio ambiente en América latina (2013), which received the First Honorable Mention of the LASA Southern Cone section (Humanities) in 2015. A translated, expanded, and updated English edition is coming out in 2023 with Palgrave under the title Visualizing Loss in Latin America: Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment. She has edited the collections of essays Poéticas de los (dis)locamientos (2012) and Utopías urbanas. Geopolítica del deseo en América latina (2013). She was also the guest editor for the special issue of Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana on “Ecocrítica” (2014). More recently, she co-edited The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader (2020) and Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema (2021), Un gabinete para el futuro (2022), and Turbar la quietud (2023). As a fiction writer, she is the author of the novels Ischia (2000), Praga (2001), and Ischia, Praga & Bruselas (2005); the collection of short stories, Glossa urbana (2012); a collection of poetic chronicles, Aldea Lounge (2014); the novella, Sophie La Belle and the Miniature Cities; the novel Cocodrilos en la noche (2020); the bilingual collection of poems, El cero móvil de su boca / The Mobile Zero of Its Mouth (2020; translated to French, Portuguese and Swedish), and Aquí no hubo ni una Estrella (forthcoming 2023 with Sed Ediciones). Her novel Cocodrilos en la noche is forthcoming in a new edition with Grupo Planeta (2023).

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