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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.

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

Public square. Guard in love with Magnolia (secretly, even to himself).

Translated from Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan

The Garden of Voices

By Alberto Ruy-Sánchez

According to legend, those strange rocks had been brought by sea from distant countries where silk was sold.

Translated from Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan

The Rematch

By Ana María Shua

Then I listened to the trial on the radio, like everyone else here, but it was different for me because it was personal.

Translated from Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan

From “The Secret Gardens of Mogador: Voices of the Earth”

By Alberto Ruy-Sánchez

Germinating on her skin was the feeling she was not understood.

Translated from Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan