"For the majority of readers, Latin American fantastic literature operates under the tutelage of the great masters: Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Julio Cortázar and Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez. However, although few are acquainted with their works, many women began experimenting with this genre well before their male counterparts and were the true precursors of the form, though their names remained on the shelves of oblivion, without the recognition that they deserved. MarĂa Luisa Bombal, for example, wrote the fantastic nouvelle, House of Mist (1937) before the famous Ficciones (1944) of Borges, and the Mexican, Elena Garro, wrote Remembrance of Things to Come (1962) before the publication of GarcĂa Márquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)."
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Marjorie AgosĂn, "Reflections on the Fantastic", translated from the Spanish by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman, in Secret Weavers: Stories of the Fantastic by Women Writers of Argentina and Chile (1992)
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