Abstract
What do contemporary anthologies of Latin American literature portray in regards to the ways of reading, organizing and selecting the short contemporary narratives of Latin America? Some issues will be approached, grounded in considerations made over three recently published anthologies within this genre - Antologia pan-americana; Os outros: antologia de narrativa argentina contemporânea; Les bonnes nouvelles de l´Amérique latine. The issues are related to the market influences, the criteria employed by anthologists and the endurance of fossilized views on the continental production such as the boom of Latin American Literature from the fifties and the magical realism. Addressing, mainly, the criteria adopted by the anthology of Gallimard Publisher will yield reflection over the genre in our current context.
Key words:
latin-american literature; contemporary literature; literature and market; anthology; contemporary short stories; latin american boom