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Rhonda Dahl Buchanan

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Rhonda Dahl Buchanan

Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is a Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Louisville. She has published critical studies on Latin American fiction as well as translations, including Limulus: Visions of Living Fossil by Brian Nissen and Alberto Ruy-Sánchez (Artes de México, 2004), The Entre Ríos Trilogy: Three Novels by Perla Suez (University of New Mexico Press, 2006), Quick Fix: Sudden Fiction by Ana María Shua (White Pine Press, 2008), and The Secret Gardens of Mogador: Voices of the Earth by Alberto Ruy-Sánchez (White Pine Press, 2009), which was supported by a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.

Articles by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan

Poetics of Wonder: Things They Say about Mogador
By Alberto Ruy-Sánchez
They say that according to the calculations of the most ancient African astronomers, the sun slows down when it passes over Mogador, lingering there more than any other place on the planet.
Translated from Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan
from Botany of Chaos
By Ana María Shua
In this age of speed and technology, when people can barely keep up with email and appointments scheduled in palm pilots, the short short story has particular appeal for the reader with little time to…
Translated from Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan
The Garden of Voices
By Alberto Ruy-Sánchez
From The Secret Gardens of Mogador: Voices of the EarthTRANSLATOR’S NOTE: In The Secret Gardens of Mogador: Voices of the Earth, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez transports his readers once again to Mogador,…
Translated from Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan
The Rematch
By Ana María Shua
“The Rematch” offers a fictionalized account of the downfall of one of Argentina’s most famous boxing champions, Carlos Monzón, El Flaco, the World Champion Middleweight Boxer from 1970…
Translated from Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan
from The Secret Gardens of Mogador: Voices of the Earth
By Alberto Ruy-Sánchez
In The Secret Gardens of Mogador: Voices of the Earth, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez transports his readers once again to Mogador, ancient name for the Arabic city of Essaouira on the Atlantic coast of Morocco,…
Translated from Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan