Defiant Deviance The Irreality of Reality in the Cultural Imaginary

The Editors: Cristina Santos is Assistant Professor at Brock University in Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Toronto. Her main research area is contemporary Latin American women writers, with a hermeneutical approach to the representation of female sexuality. Her book Bending the Rules in the Quest for an Authentic Female Identity: Clarice Lispector and Carmen Boullosa was published by Peter Lang in 2004.
Adriana Spahr is Assistant Professor at Brock University in Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on political and cultural expressions in contemporary Latin American literature, and she is also the author of La sonrisa de la amargura (forthcoming).