Modern Latin American literature : a very short introduction
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Modern Latin American literature : a very short introduction
(Very short introductions, 298)
Oxford University Press, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-126) and index
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Description
In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garc'ia M'arquez, Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa all became part of the general culture of educated readers of English, French, German, and Italian. But few know about the literary tradition from which these writers emerged. This Very Short Introduction remedies this situation, providing an overview of modern Latin American literature from the late eighteenth century to the present. Roberto Gonz'alez Echevarr'ia covers a wide range of topics, discussing the birth of Modernismo, the first Latin American literary movement; how the end of World War I and the Mexican Revolution produced the avant-garde; and how the Cuban Revolution sparked a movement in the novel that came to be known as the Boom. Within this narrative, the author covers many of the major writers of Latin American literature, from Andr'es Bello and Jos'e Mar'ia de Heredia through Borges and Garc'ia M'arquez to Fernando Vallejo and Roberto Bola~no.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Poetry from Romanticism to Modernismo: Bello to Dario
- Chapter 2: Nineteenth-Century Prose: the Revelation of Latin America
- Chapter 3: Poetry from Modernismo to Modernism
- Chapter 4: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century: Regionalism to Modernism
- Chapter 5: Latin American Literature Today
- References
- Further Reading
- Index
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