Alicia Borinsky,born in Buenos Aires, is a novelist, poet and literary critic. Alicia Borinsky is professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature and Director of the Writing in the Americas Program at Boston University. Her critical work has helped frame the discussion about the writers of the “boom†movement in Latin America. Among her other scholarly achievements is the introduction of the figure of Macedonio Fernández, Borges’s master, the exploration of the intersection between literary theory, cultural and gender studies and numerous works about poetry, Latino writers and World literature.
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