Steven M. Bell

Associate Professor of Spanish
(Ph.D. University of Kansas)

Email: sbell@uark.edu

Research and Teaching Interest:

Modern Spanish American Literature and specializes in the Latin American Novel, Mexican literature, U.S. Latino, literary theory, cultural studies

Publications:

"Carpentier's El Reino de Este Mundo in a New Light: Toward a Theory of the Fantistic." Journal of Spanish Studies: Twentieth Century 8.1-2, 1980, pp. 29-34; "Literatura Crítica y Crítica de la Literatura: Teoría y Práctica en la Obra de Salavdor Elizondo." Chasqui, 11.1, 1981; 41-52; "Hacia el Apocalipsis: La Violencia en Los Cuentos de Alvarez Gardezábal." Crítica Hispánica 3.1, 1981; 3-16; "Realism Rewritten: An-other Reading of Hawkes's Second Skin." Ball State University Forum 23.3, 1982; 64-68; "Camera Luacute;cida, Camera Obscura: El Posible Imposible de la Escritura." Letra 5.7, 1984; 22-27; "Literature, Self-Consciousness, and Writing: The Example of Barth's Lost in The Funhouse." International Fiction Review 11.2, 1984; 84-89; "The Book of Life and Death: Quevedo and the Printing Press." Hispanic Journal 5.2, 1984; 7-15; "Quevedo y la Imprenta." Boletín Editorial de El Colegio de México 34 (nov.-dic. 1990): 14-22. (Translated and reprinted from Hispanic Journal, 1984.); "Postmodern Fiction in Spanish America: The Example of Salvador Elizondo and Néstor Sánchez." Arizona Quarterly 42.1, 1986; 5-16; "Entrevista a García Ponce." Hispamérica XV.43, 1986; 45-55; "La Vocación Crítica en México: A Propósito de Segunda Voz de Ignacio Trejo." Semanario Cultural de Novedades (México) #303, 1988; 11, 16; "Juan García Ponce: El Arte de Vivir La Ambiguedad Esencial." La Orquesta 3.16, 1988; 44-47; "Literature, Self-Consciousness, and Writing: The Example of Barth's Lost in the Funhouse." In Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 51, D.G. Marowski & R. Matuz, eds. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989: 22-24. (Reprinted from International Fiction Review, 1984.); "Contexts of Critical Reception in El Laberinto de la soledad: The Contingencies of Value and the Discourse of Power." Siglo XX\Twentieth Century 10.1&2, 1992; 101-24; "Mexico." In Handbook of Latin American Literature. 2nd edition. D.W. Foster, ed. Garland Publishers, 1992; "Critical Theory, Cultural Politics and Latin American Narrative: A Prolegomenon." 39 pp. ms. Essay to appear in Critical Theory, Cultural Politics and Latin American Narrative. S. Bell, et.al., eds. University of Notre Dame Press, 1993, pp. 1-32; "Salvador Elizondo." 25 pp. ms. Contemporary Latin American Fiction Writers. 2nd Series W. Luis, ed. Vol. 145 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography; Clark, Bruccoli, Layman, pp. 108-117; "Sailing East into the Southern Boom: John Barth's The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor." American Book Review. 14.6, Feb.- Mar. 1993); 16, 25; "Into the (Theoretical) Mainstream, Into the (Political) Maelstrom" in SigloXX/Twentieth Century 13.1 & 2. (1995) pp.269-279; "Mañanita blusera," by G. Samperio, translation (University of New Mexico Press volume, forthcoming); Critical Theory, Cultural Politics and Latin American Narrative (University of Notre Dame Press, May 1993); "Simple Variations Arresting Modulations in the Experimental Mode." by R. Appel in American Book Review (forthcoming).