Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Mapping the City -- 1. Short Circuits: Gendered Itineraries in Recent Urban Fiction Anthologies from Latin America -- 2. What Happened to the Cool City? Seventy Years of Women's Narrative in Brazil -- 3. On Being a Woman in the City of Kings: Women Writing (in) Contemporary Lima -- 4. Failed Modernity: San Juan at Night in Mayra Santos Febres's Cualquier miércoles soy tuya -- Part II: The Restless City -- 5. Anna's Extreme Makeover: Revisiting Tolstoy in Karenina Express -- 6. The "Uchronic" City: Writing (after) the Catastrophe -- 7. The Fourth World and the Birth of Sudaca Stigma -- Part III: Cities of Difference -- 8. The Cultural Memory of Malinche in Mexico City: Stories by Elena Garro and Cristina Pacheco -- 9. Writing Home: Afro-Costa Rican Women Poets Negotiating Limón and San José -- 10. Urban Legends: Tina Modotti and Angelina Beloff as Flâneuses in Elena Poniatowska's Mexico City -- Part IV: Other Cities -- 11. Modernity, Flirting, Seduction, and Urban Social Landscape in Carmela Eulate Sanjurjo's El asombroso doctor Jover -- 12. Woman between Paris and Caracas: Iphigenia by Teresa de la Parra -- 13. Amateurs and Professionals in Ena Lucía Portela's Lexicon of Crisis -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.