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M odern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide. The series began in 1995 and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities.The VSI library now contains 300 volumes—a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology—and will continue to grow in a variety of disciplines. V ery Short Introductions available now: ADVERTISING Winston Fletcher ATHEISM Julian Baggini AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker and AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick Richard Rathbone AUTISM Uta Frith AGNOSTICISM Robin Le Poidevin THE AZTECS Davíd Carrasco AMERICAN IMMIGRATION BARTHES Jonathan Culler David A. Gerber BEAUTY Roger Scruton AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES BESTSELLERS John Sutherland AND ELECTIONS L. Sandy Maisel THE BIBLE John Riches THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY Charles O. Jones Eric H. Cline ANARCHISM Colin Ward BIOGRAPHY Hermione Lee ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw THE BLUES Elijah Wald ANCIENT GREECE Paul Cartledge THE BOOK OF MORMON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas Terryl Givens ANCIENT WARFARE THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea Harry Sidebottom BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright ANGELS David Albert Jones BUDDHA Michael Carrithers ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman BUDDHISM Damien Keown - THE ANGLO SAXON AGE John Blair BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown THE ANIMAL KINGDOM CANCER Nicholas James Peter Holland CAPITALISM James Fulcher ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia CATHOLICISM Gerald O’Collins ANTISEMITISM Steven Beller THE CELL THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS Terence Allen and Graham Cowling Paul Foster THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn CHAOS Leonard Smith ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ARISTOCRACY William Doyle Kimberley Reynolds ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham ART HISTORY Dana Arnold CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland CHRISTIAN ETHICS D. Stephen Long CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch - CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BRITAIN Helen Morales Paul Langford CLASSICS THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball Mary Beard and John Henderson EMOTION Dylan Evans CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard EMPIRE Stephen Howe THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon ENGELS Terrell Carver COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN ENGLISH LITERATURE Jonathan Bate LITERATURE Rolena Adorno ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS COMMUNISM Leslie Holmes Stephen Smith THE COMPUTER Darrel Ince EPIDEMIOLOGY Roldolfo Saracci CONSCIENCE Paul Strohm ETHICS Simon Blackburn CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore THE EUROPEAN UNION CONTEMPORARY ART John Pinder and Simon Usherwood Julian Stallabrass EVOLUTION CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Brian and Deborah Charlesworth Simon Critchley EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn COSMOLOGY Peter Coles FASCISM Kevin Passmore CRITICAL THEORY FASHION Rebecca Arnold Stephen Eric Bronner FEMINISM Margaret Walters THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman FILM MUSIC Kathryn Kalinak CRYPTOGRAPHY THE FIRST WORLD WAR Fred Piper and Sean Murphy Michael Howard THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION FOLK MUSIC Mark Slobin Richard Curt Kraus FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY DADA AND SURREALISM David Canter David Hopkins FORENSIC SCIENCE Jim Fraser DARWIN Jonathan Howard FOSSILS Keith Thomson THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS Timothy Lim FOUCAULT Gary Gutting DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick FREE SPEECH Nigel Warburton DERRIDA Simon Glendinning FREE WILL Thomas Pink DESCARTES Tom Sorell FRENCH LITERATURE John D. Lyons DESERTS Nick Middleton THE FRENCH REVOLUTION DESIGN John Heskett William Doyle DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY FREUD Anthony Storr Lewis Wolpert FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven DICTIONARIES Lynda Mugglestone GALAXIES John Gribbin DINOSAURS David Norman GALILEO Stillman Drake DIPLOMACY Joseph M. Siracusa GAME THEORY Ken Binmore DOCUMENTARY FILM GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh Patricia Aufderheide GENIUS Andrew Robinson DREAMING J. Allan Hobson GEOGRAPHY DRUGS Leslie Iversen John Matthews and David Herbert DRUIDS Barry Cunliffe GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds EARLY MUSIC Thomas Forrest Kelly GERMAN LITERATURE THE EARTH Martin Redfern Nicholas Boyle GERMAN PHILOSOPHY KABBALAH Joseph Dan Andrew Bowie KAFKA Ritchie Robertson GLOBAL CATASTROPHES KANT Roger Scruton Bill McGuire KEYNES Robert Skidelsky GLOBAL ECONOMIC HISTORY KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner Robert C. Allen THE KORAN Michael Cook GLOBAL WARMING Mark Maslin LANDSCAPES AND GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger GEOMORPHOLOGY THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles NEW DEAL Eric Rauchway LATE ANTIQUITY Gillian Clark HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson LAW Raymond Wacks HEGEL Peter Singer THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood Peter Atkins HERODOTUS Jennifer. T. Roberts LEADERSHIP Keith Grint HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson LINCOLN Allen C. Guelzo HINDUISM Kim Knott LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews HISTORY John H. Arnold LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY LOCKE John Dunn Michael Hoskin LOGIC Graham Priest THE HISTORY OF LIFE MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner Michael Benton MADNESS Andrew Scull THE History of Medicine THE MARQUIS DE SADE John Phillips William Bynum MARTIN LUTHER Scott H. Hendrix THE HISTORY OF TIME MARX Peter Singer - Leofranc Holford S trevens MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside THE MEANING OF LIFE HOBBES Richard Tuck Terry Eagleton HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham MEDIEVAL BRITAIN HUMANISM Stephen Law John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths HUME A. J. Ayer MEMORY Jonathan K. Foster IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden MICHAEL FARADAY INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton Frank A.J.L. James INFORMATION Luciano Floridi MODERN ART David Cottington INNOVATION MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter Mark Dodgson and David Gann MODERN FRANCE INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary Vanessa R. Schwartz INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION MODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta Khalid Koser MODERN JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Christopher Goto-Jones Paul Wilkinson MODERN LATIN AMERICAN ISLAM Malise Ruthven LITERATURE ISLAMIC HISTORY Adam Silverstein Roberto González Echevarría JESUS Richard Bauckham MODERNISM Christopher Butler JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves MOLECULES Philip Ball JUDAISM Norman Solomon MORMONISM JUNG Anthony Stevens Richard Lyman Bushman MUHAMMAD Jonathan A. C. Brown POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young MULTICULTURALISM Ali Rattansi POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler MUSIC Nicholas Cook POSTSTRUCTURALISM MYTH Robert A. Segal Catherine Belsey NATIONALISM Steven Grosby PREHISTORY Chris Gosden NELSON MANDELA Elleke Boehmer PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY NEOLIBERALISM Catherine Osborne Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy PRIVACY Raymond Wacks THE NEW TESTAMENT PROGRESSIVISM Walter Nugent Luke Timothy Johnson PROTESTANTISM Mark A. Noll THE NEW TESTAMENT AS PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns LITERATURE Kyle Keefer PSYCHOLOGY NEWTON Robert Iliffe Gillian Butler and Freda McManus NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner PURITANISM Francis J. Bremer - NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITAIN THE QUAKERS Pink Dandelion Christopher Harvie and QUANTUM THEORY H. C. G. Matthew John Polkinghorne THE NORMAN CONQUEST RACISM Ali Rattansi George Garnett THE REAGAN REVOLUTION Gil Troy NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS REALITY Jan Westerhoff Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green THE REFORMATION Peter Marshall NORTHERN IRELAND RELATIVITY Russell Stannard Marc Mulholland RELIGION IN AMERICA NOTHING Frank Close Timothy Beal NUCLEAR POWER Maxwell Irvine THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton NUCLEAR WEAPONS RENAISSANCE ART Joseph M. Siracusa Geraldine A. Johnson NUMBERS Peter M. Higgins RISK Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany THE OLD TESTAMENT ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway Michael D. Coogan THE ROMAN EMPIRE ORGANIZATIONS Mary Jo Hatch Christopher Kelly PAGANISM Owen Davies ROMANTICISM Michael Ferber PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler PAUL E. P. Sanders RUSSELL A. C. Grayling PENTECOSTALISM William K. Kay RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly THE PERIODIC TABLE Eric R. Scerri THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig S. A. Smith PHILOSOPHY OF LAW SCHIZOPHRENIA Raymond Wacks Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SCHOPENHAUER Samir Okasha Christopher Janaway PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards SCIENCE AND RELIGION PLANETS David A. Rothery Thomas Dixon PLATO Julia Annas SCIENCE FICTION David Seed POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION David Miller Lawrence M. Principe POLITICS Kenneth Minogue SCOTLAND Rab Houston SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier THEOLOGY David F. Ford SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer THOMAS AQUINAS Fergus Kerr SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt TOCQUEVILLE Harvey C. Mansfield SLEEP TRAGEDY Adrian Poole Steven W. Lockley and Russell G. Foster THE TUDORS John Guy - SOCIAL AND CULTURAL TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN ANTHROPOLOGY Kenneth O. Morgan John Monaghan and Peter Just THE UNITED NATIONS SOCIALISM Michael Newman Jussi M. Hanhimäki SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce THE U.S. CONGRESS Donald A. Ritchie SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor UTOPIANISM Lyman Tower Sargent THE SOVIET UNION Stephen Lovell THE VIKINGS Julian Richards THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR VIRUSES Dorothy H. Crawford Helen Graham WITCHCRAFT Malcolm Gaskill SPANISH LITERATURE Jo Labanyi WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling SPINOZA Roger Scruton WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman STATISTICS David J. Hand THE WORLD TRADE STUART BRITAIN John Morrill ORGANIZATION Amrita Narlikar SUPERCONDUCTIVITY WRITING AND SCRIPT Stephen Blundell Andrew Robinson TERRORISM Charles Townshend A vailable soon: Film Chinese Literature M ichael Wood S abina Knight Magic Italian Literature O wen Davies P eter Hainsworth and David Robey The Conquistadors M atthew Restall and Felipe Fernández-Armesto F or more information visit our web site www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ R oberto González Echevarría Modern Latin American Literature A Very Short Introduction 1 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2012 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press A ll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data González Echevarría, Roberto. Modern Latin American literature : a very short introduction / Roberto González Echevarría. p. cm. — (Very short introductions) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-19-975491-5 (pbk.) 1 . Spanish American literature—History and criticism. I. Title. PQ7081.G6315 2012 860.9′98—dc23 2011031494 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in Great Britain by Ashford Colour Press Ltd., Gosport, Hants. on acid-free paper A la memoria de Octavio Corvalán, maestro tucumano
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