The Great Latin American Novel

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628971916
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Latin American Novel written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the late Carlos Fuentes's final projects, this compendium of his criticism traces the evolution of the Latin American novel from the discovery of America to the present day. Combining historical perspective with personal and often opinionated interpretation, Fuentes gives us a tour from Machado de Assis to Borges and beyond. A landmark analysis, as well as a scintillating and often wry commentary on a great author's peers and influences, this book is as much a contribution to Latin American literature as it is a chronicle of that literature's greatest achievements.

Author : Raymond L. Williams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231501692
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945 written by Raymond L. Williams and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-21 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expertly crafted, richly detailed guide, Raymond Leslie Williams explores the cultural, political, and historical events that have shaped the Latin American and Caribbean novel since the end of World War II. In addition to works originally composed in English, Williams covers novels written in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and Haitian Creole, and traces the profound influence of modernization, revolution, and democratization on the writing of this era. Beginning in 1945, Williams introduces major trends by region, including the Caribbean and U.S. Latino novel, the Mexican and Central American novel, the Andean novel, the Southern Cone novel, and the novel of Brazil. He discusses the rise of the modernist novel in the 1940s, led by Jorge Luis Borges's reaffirmation of the right of invention, and covers the advent of the postmodern generation of the 1990s in Brazil, the Generation of the "Crack" in Mexico, and the McOndo generation in other parts of Latin America. An alphabetical guide offers biographies of authors, coverage of major topics, and brief introductions to individual novels. It also addresses such areas as women's writing, Afro-Latin American writing, and magic realism. The guide's final section includes an annotated bibliography of introductory studies on the Latin American and Caribbean novel, national literary traditions, and the work of individual authors. From early attempts to synthesize postcolonial concerns with modernist aesthetics to the current focus on urban violence and globalization, The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945 presents a comprehensive, accessible portrait of a thoroughly diverse and complex branch of world literature.

Author : Gordon Brotherston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521214780
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of the Latin American Novel written by Gordon Brotherston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-09-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey concentrates on the modern novel of Spanish-speaking America. Dr Brotherston starts with a long and suggestive introduction on the general topic 'settings and people', showing the growth of a sense of Latin American identity in the fiction produced in the continent as a whole. There follow detailed studies of individual modern novels, taken as representative of their time, their author, their country and the continent. A conclusion surveys and sums up these themes. The analytical studies of important and representative novels, related to each other in theme and preoccupation, the substantial quotations (in English), the notes and the useful bibliography, make this a book which gives students and other readers a well-considered introduction to the Spanish American fiction of this century.

Author : Will H. Corral
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441123946
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel written by Will H. Corral and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered-Aira, Bolaño, Castellanos Moya, Vásquez-are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English beyond book reviews. This book provides the guidance necessary for a more sophisticated and contextualized understanding of these authors and their works. Underestimated or unfamiliar Spanish American novels and novelists are introduced through conceptually rigorous essays. Sections on each writer include: *the author's reception in their native country, Spanish America, and Spain *biographical history *a critical examination of their work, including key themes and conceptual concerns *translation history *scholarly reception The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel offers an authoritative guide to a rich and varied novelistic tradition. It covers all demographic areas, including United States Latino authors, in exploring the diversity of this literature and its major themes, such as exile, migration, and gender representation.

Author : Raymond L. Williams
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Latin American Novel written by Raymond L. Williams and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series Editor: Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University The volumes in this series examine significant literary foundations of the novel, by applying the most recent critical approaches: Marxism, feminism, structuralism, and others. Each volume surveys a specific novel-writing tradition, and includes: A chronology listing publication dates of major novels, birth and death dates of novelists, and dates of significant events An introductory overview of the novels and their critical reception A summary of the state of the criticism Primary and secondary source bibliographies

Author : Verity Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135960267
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature written by Verity Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from colonial times to the present; and detailed articles on some 50 important works in this literature-those who read and studied in the English-speaking world.

Author : Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199754918
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Latin American Literature written by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of Latin American literature from the late eighteenth century to the present. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria covers a wide range of topics, highlighting how Latin American literature became conscious of its continental scope and international reach in moments of political crisis, such as independence from Spain, the Spanish-American War, and the Mexican and Cuban revolutions. With this narrative, the author discusses major writers ranging from Andres Bello and Jose Maria Heredia through Borges and Garcia Marquez to Fernando Vallejo and Roberto Bolano.

Author : HŽctor Hoyos
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023116842X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond BolaÐo written by HŽctor Hoyos and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bola–o and the fictional work of CŽsar Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other contemporaries, HŽctor Hoyos defines new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also affirms the lead role of Latin American authors in reshaping world literature. Focusing on post-1989 Latin American novels and their representation of globalization, Hoyos considers the narrative techniques and aesthetic choices Latin American authors make to assimilate the conflicting forces at work in our increasingly interconnected world. Challenging the assumption that globalization leads to cultural homogenization, his book identifies the rich textual strategies that estrange and re-mediate power relations both within literary canons and across global cultural hegemonies. Hoyos shines a light on the unique, avant garde phenomena that animate these works, such as modeling literary circuits after the dynamics of the art world, imagining counterfactual ÒNaziÓ histories, exposing the limits of escapist narratives, and formulating textual forms that resist worldwide literary consumerism. These experiments help reconfigure received ideas about global culture and advance new, creative articulations of world consciousness.

Author : Arturo Torres-Rioseco
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Epic of Latin American Literature written by Arturo Torres-Rioseco and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1946 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raymond Leslie Williams
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292774028
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel written by Raymond Leslie Williams and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century. Indeed, the desire to be "modern" is a constant preoccupation in twentieth-century Spanish American literature and thus a very useful lens through which to view the century's novels. In this pathfinding study, Raymond L. Williams offers the first complete analytical and critical overview of the Spanish American novel throughout the entire twentieth century. Using the desire to be modern as his organizing principle, he divides the century's novels into five periods and discusses the differing forms that "the modern" took in each era. For each period, Williams begins with a broad overview of many novels, literary contexts, and some cultural debates, followed by new readings of both canonical and significant non-canonical novels. A special feature of this book is its emphasis on women writers and other previously ignored and/or marginalized authors, including experimental and gay writers. Williams also clarifies the legacy of the Boom, the Postboom, and the Postmodern as he introduces new writers and new novelistic trends of the 1990s.