Resumen de Writing and Reading in a Transnational Context: Light Fiction and Complicity in The Ecuador Effect. A Review of David E. Stuart's The Ecuador Effect (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 2007)

Michael Handelsman

• David E. Stuart is a professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico who has turned his most recent efforts as researcher and scholar to writing a novel titled The Ecuador Effect. Although a work of fiction, this novel was inspired by Stuart’s previous experience in Ecuador where he lived and worked and, apparently, learned much about the history and cultural mores of the country.