DAVID WILLIAM FOSTER is Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures and Regents' Professor of Spanish, Humanities, and Women's Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1994).
MELISSA FITCH LOCKHART is on the faculty at Arizona International College of the University of Arizona in Tucson. She has published several articles on gender and sexuality in Latin American theatre and is currently writing a book on Latin American women writers.
DARRELL B. LOCKHART is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Nevada, Reno where he teaches Latin American literature, popular culture, and film. He is the editor of Latin American Jewish Writers: A Dictionary (1997), co-author of Culture and Customs of Argentina (Greenwood, 1998), and editor of Latin American Science Fiction Writers and Latin American Mystery Writers (both Greenwood, 2004).

Illustrations
Series Foreword
Introduction
Chronology
1 Context 1
2 Religion 17
3 Social Customs 37
4 Broadcasting and Print Media 57
5 Cinema 81
6 Literature 97
7 Performing Arts 121
8 Art (Painting, Sculpture, Photography) 143
Index 163

A series of essays examine the social and cultural institutions of the Latin American country and survey its cultural production in terms of major works, artists, and venues. They include treatments of religion, social customs, broadcasting and print media, cinema, literature, performing arts, sculpture, photography, architecture, and painting.