Latin American Short Stories Reading Group – Rosario Castellanos Special Edition
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Location: Conference Room – Britannia Community Services Centre (1661 Napier St, Vancouver, BC, V5L 4X4)
This is a FREE event, but registration is required. Save your spot here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/latin-american-short-stories-reading-group-rosario-castellanos-special-ed-tickets-1334244103029
Join us for a special edition of VLACC’s Latin American Short Stories Reading Group as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Mexican writer Rosario Castellanos, a groundbreaking author, poet, and feminist thinker whose work continues to inspire generations.
For this centennial session, we’ll read and reflect on “The Cooking Lesson” (“Lección de cocina”) (1971) and a short fragment from the novel “Balún Canán” (1957) by Rosario Castellanos. The discussion will be led by Professor Tamara Mitchell, who will guide us through the nuances of the text and offer insights into Castellanos’ legacy in Latin American literature.
Whether you’re a seasoned reader or new to her work, this is an excellent opportunity to discover (or rediscover) a powerful voice in Latin American writing.
✨ We’ll also be giving away a few copies of Balún Canán in both English and Spanish during the event!
The stories are available in both English and Spanish. The conversation will be held in English, and no prior knowledge of the author or background in Latin American literature is needed. Everyone’s welcome!
Read the stories here:
(English): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MaztDXXLwh_IpbWBycb66hf8KCNpOHWe?usp=sharing
(Español): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ceVpvLMxXi-piMvSTDONzl52CQyNRMKm?usp=sharing
About the Facilitator
Tamara Mitchell is a scholar of 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature and cultures. Her work examines the relationship among aesthetics, politics, and literary tradition in the current epoch of neoliberal globalization, focusing on Mexican and Central American narrative fiction. At UBC, Tamara is the faculty lead on the Sound and the Humanities Research Cluster.
Tamara received a Master of Arts in Spanish Literature at the University of Kansas (2009), following which she spent a year abroad as an Assistant Professor of English Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain, and taught for two years as a Lecturer of Spanish at Clemson University in South Carolina. She received a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington (2019), where she conducted research abroad as a FLAS Fellow and Tinker recipient.
With the support of Britannia Community Services Centre and UBC LAS.
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