Title: Cibao, 1938, relatos /
Authors: Contreras, Hilma,
Date: 2018
Publisher: Editorial Doble Infinito,
Physical description: 132 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: Spanish
LC classification: P
Abstract: Short stories. Hilma Contreras (1913-2006), was a Dominican fiction, essay writer and photographer. Together with Delia Weber (1900-1982), Virginia Elena Ortea (1866-1903) y Aida Cartagena Portalatín (1918-1994) formed the quartet of the most well-known Dominican women short story writer of the 20th century. Contreras is the first Dominican to explore the lesbian condition in her short story La espera, written in 1950 but not published until 1987, though the story circulated underground among the circle of writers of her time in the midst of the Trujillo dictatorship. Her works include Cuatro cuentos (1953), El ojo de Dios: cuentos de la clandestinidad (1962), Entre dos silencios (cuentos, 1987), La tierra está bramando (novela, 1986) among other works of essay and translation. In 2002 she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura.
Contents: Las cuartillas de Paulina -- En la mañana clara -- Estío -- En todas partes se cuecen habas -- Las Mercedes -- Otra vez noviembre -- La última vez -- Nochebuena roja -- Al día siguente -- Pillaje -- Dígaselo a mamá Lola -- La mariposa negra -- ¡Estalló la cosa! -- Aprensión -- La partida.
Notes: Short stories. "Título original: Cibao, 1938 (Más relatos de Pueblo chiquito)"--Title page verso.
Subject headings (LCSH): Dominican literature.; Short stories.