Recently published journals can be found in the pigeon-holes in the West Room; those published more than about two or three years ago are bound and shelved under P or L numbers. Pigeon-holes and classmarks can be found on the computer catalogue 'Union List of Serials').
1. General sources (including essays by Valenzuela)
Chevigny and Laguardia: Bell Gale Chevigny and Gari Laguardia, eds. Reinventing the Americas. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Crawley, Eduardo. A House Divided: Argentina, 1880-1980. London: C. Hurst, 1984. 472pp.
Simpson and Bennett: John Simpson and Jana Bennett. The Disappeared: Voices From a Secret War. London: Robson Books, 1985.
Valenzuela, Luisa. 'The Other Face of the Phallus'. In Chevigny & Laguardia. 242-48.
2. Secondary literature on Valenzuela (few of these deal directly with Cola de lagartija)
Araújo, Helena. La Scherezada Criolla: Ensayos sobre escritura femenina latinoamericana. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1989. 258pp. (Contains very short chapter on Cambio de armas.)
Castillo, Debra. Talking Back: Towards a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Condé and Hart: Lisa P. Condé and S.M. Hart, eds. Feminist Readings on Spanish and Latin-American Literature. The Edwin Mellen Press, 1991. 216pp.
Díaz and Lagos: Gwendolyn Díaz and María Inés Lagos, eds. La palabra en vilo: narrativa de Luisa Valenzuela. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1996. 264pp. (Contains lots of important essays on Valenzuela, including a few on Cola de lagartija.)
García Pinto, Magdalena. Historias íntimas: Conversaciones con diez escritoras latinoamericanas. Hanover, NH: Ediciones del Norte, 1988. 286pp. Interviews with: Marta Traba, Luisa Valenzuela, etc.
Hart, Stephen M. 'The Political Unconscious: From Luisa Valenzuela to Rosario Castellanos'. The Other Scene: psychoanalytic readings in modern Spanish and Latin-American literature. Boulder, Colorado: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 1991. 72-85. (On Cambio de armas.)
Kantaris, Elia Geoffrey. The Subversive Psyche: Contemporary Women's Narrative from Argentina and Uruguay. Oxford Hispanic Studies. Oxford: Clarendon Press, OUP, 1995. (Includes Chapter on Cola de lagartija and La nave de los locos.)
Lagos Pope, María Inés. 'Mujer y política en Cambio de armas de Luisa Valenzuela'. Hispamérica [Takoma Park, MD] 16.46-47 (abril-agosto 1987): 71-83.
———.'Luisa Valenzuela's Cambio de armas: Subversion and Narrative Weaponry'. Romance Quarterly [Kentucky] 34.1 (February 1987): 85-94.
Magnarelli, Sharon. 'Framing Power in Luisa Valenzuela's Cola de lagartija and Isabel Allende's Casa de los espíritus'. In Lucía Guerra Cunningham, ed., Splintering Darkness: Latin American Women Writers in Search of Themselves. Explorations. Pittsburgh: Latin American Literary Review Press, 1990. 43-62.
Martin, Gerald. Journeys through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century. London: Verso, 1989. 424pp. (Contains good general introduction to Cola de lagartija.)
Martínez, Z. Nelly. 'Entre el absimo y la medusa: Cola de lagartija de Luisa Valenzuela'. In Erro- Orthmann and Cruz Mendizabal. La escritora hispánica. Colección Polymita. Miami: Ediciones Universales, 1990. (UL 743.13.c.95.170)
Ordóñez, Montserrat. 'Máscara de espejos: un juego especular; entrevista-asociaciones con la escritora argentina Lusia Valenzuela'. Revista Iberoamericana 51.132-33 (Julio-Dic 1985): 511-19. (Interview.)
Paley Francescato, Martha. 'Cola de lagartija [Valenzuela]: látigo de la palabra y la Triple P'. Revista Iberoamericana [Pittsburgh] 51.132-33 (Julio-Dic 1985): 875-82.
Picon Garfield, Evelyn. Women's Voices from Latin America: Interviews with Six Contemporary Authors. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985. 188pp. Contains interviews with Traba, Valenzuela, plus others.
Rubio, Patricia. 'Fragmentation in Luisa Valenzuela's Narrative'. Salmagundi [New York] 82-83 (spring-summer 1989): 287-96. (The Writer in Latin America.)