Ana Chichester
Professor of Spanish, Director of the Bachelor of Liberal Studies Program University of Mary Washington
University of Mary Washington
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Biography
Areas of Expertise
Education
University of Virginia
Ph.D.
Spanish
1990
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A.
Latin American Literature
1981
University of Mary Washington
B.A.
Spanish
1976
Affiliations
- Modern Language Association
- Latin American Studies Association
Media Appearances
UMW professors find creative ways to teach through COVID-19
Fredericksburg Today online
2020-05-04
Teaching at Mary Washington looks a bit different lately.
Articles
Virgilio Piñera and the Formulation of a National Literature
CR: The New Centennial Review2002
ABSTRACT: Of all the characterizations of Virgilio Piñera (1912-1979) as the cynical and virulent writer, the friend and mentor to younger Cuban writers, or the reclusive quasi-invisible figure of his later years, none is more appropriate than his own "yo no soy yo," written by Piñera and/or by Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) during their years of friendship and collaboration in Buenos Aires...
Metamorphosis in two short stories of the fantastic by Virgilio Piñera and Felisberto Hernandez
Studies in Short Fiction1994
In "A Rhetoric of the Unreal," Christine Brooke-Rose points out that if the pure fantastic narrative--as described by Todorov--has as its main feature the total ambiguity between two interpretations, this is a feature that...
Don Quijote y Sancho en el Toboso
http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/revista?codigo=33231983
This article studies the structure and meaning of the omens that appear in Chapter 9, Part II of Don Quixote. It points out that the omens form a symbolic code, and it shows that the omens reveal the two different routes Don Quixote could follow in his search for Dulcinea...
