The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature 3 Volume Hardback Set: The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature, Volume 2: The Twentieth Century

606 Pages·1996·35.35 MB·English

by  Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría

The Cambridge History of
Latin American Literature
VOLUME 2
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The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
Edited by
Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo-Walker
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature is by far the most comprehen­
sive and authoritative work of its kind ever written. Its three volumes cover the whole
sweep of Latin American literature (including Brazilian) from pre-Columbian times to
the present, and contain chapters on Latin American writing in the US. Over forty
specialists in North America, Latin America, and Britain have contributed to what is
not only the most reliable, up-to-date, and convenient reference work on its subject,
but also a set of books containing innovative approaches and fresh research that will
expand and animate the field for years to come. The History is unique in its thorough
coverage of previously neglected areas, in its detailed discussion of countless writers in
various genres, and in its inclusion of extensive annotated bibliographies.
Volume i begins with pre-Columbian traditions and their first contact with European
culture, continuing through to the end of the nineteenth century. New World
historiography, epic poetry, theatre, the novel, and the essay form are among the areas
covered in this comprehensive and authoritative treatment.
Volume 2 provides coverage of all genres from the end of the nineteenth century up to
Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and beyond to 1990, thus including
discussion of Spanish American literature's best-known works. The novel, poetry,
autobiographical narrative, the short story, Afro-Hispanic American literature,
theatre, and Chicano literature are among the areas treated in this wide-ranging
volume.
Volume 3 is devoted partly to the history of Brazilian literature, from the earliest
writing through the colonial period and the Portuguese-language traditions of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and partly also to an extensive bibliographical
section in which annotated reading lists relating to the chapters in all three volumes of
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature are presented. These bibliogra­
phies are a unique feature of the History, further enhancing its immense value as a
reference work.
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Contents of the other two volumes
Volume i: Discovery to Modernism
List of contributors; General preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction to Volume i;
i. A brief history of the history of Spanish American literature; 2. Cultures in contact:
Mesoamerica, the Andes, and the European written tradition; 3. The first fifty years of
Hispanic New World historiography: the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America;
4. Historians of the Conquest and Colonization of the New World: 1550-1620;
5. Historians of the colonial period: 1620-1700; 6. Colonial lyric; 7. Epic poetry;
8. Spanish American theatre of the colonial period; 9. Viceregal culture; 10. The
eighteenth century: narrative forms, scholarship, and learning; 11. Lyric poetry of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; 12. Spanish American theatre of the eighteenth
century; 13. The nineteenth-century Spanish American novel; 14. The brief narrative
in Spanish America: 1835-1915; 15. The Spanish American theatre of the nineteenth
century; 16. The essay in Spanish South America: 1800 to Modernismo; 17. The essay
of nineteenth-century Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean; 18. The Gaucho
genre; Index
Volume 3: Brazilian Literature; Bibliographies
List of contributors; General preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction to Volume 3;
1. The literary historiography of Brazil; 2. Colonial Brazilian literature; 3. Brazilian
poetry from the 1830s to the 1880s; 4. Brazilian poetry from 1878 to 1902; 5. The
Brazilian theatre before 1900; 6. Brazilian fiction from 1800 to 1855; 7. The Brazilian
novel from 1850 to 1900; 8. Brazilian fiction from 1900 to 1945; 9. Brazilian prose from
1940 to 1980; 10. The Brazilian short story; 11. Brazilian poetry from 1900 to 1922;
12. Brazilian poetry from Modernism to the present; 13. The Brazilian theatre in the
twentieth century; 14. Brazilian popular literature (the literatura de cordel);
15. Literary criticism in Brazil; 16. The essay: architects of Brazilian national identity;
17. The Brazilian and the Spanish American literary traditions: a contrastive view;
BIBLIOGRAPHIES: 1. General bibliography; 2. Bibliographies to Volume 1; Biblio­
graphies to Volume 2; Bibliographies to Volume 3; Index
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The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
VpLUME 2:
The Twentieth Century
Edited by
Roberto González Echevarría
Yale University
and
Enrique Pupo-Walker
Vanderbilt University
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Contents
List of contributors page ix
General preface XI
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction to Volume 2 i
Modernist poetry
Cathy L. Jrade 7
Modernist prose
Aníbal Gonzalez 69
The Vanguardia and its implications
Hugo J. Verani 114
The literature of Indigenismo
René Prieto 138
Afro-Hispanic American literature
Vera M. Kutzinski 164
The criollista novel
Carlos J. Alonso 195
The novel of the Mexican Revolution
John Rutherford 213
The Spanish American novel from 1950 to 1975
Randolph D. Pope 226
The Spanish American novel: recent developments, 1975 to 1990
Gustavo Pellón 279
Spanish American poetry from 1922 to 1975
José Quiroga 303
The modern essay in Spanish America
José Miguel Oviedo 365
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LIST OF CONTENTS
12 Literary criticism in Spanish America
Aníbal González 425
13 The autobiographical narrative
Sylvia Molloy 458
14 The twentieth-century short story in Spanish America
Daniel Balderston 465
15 Spanish American theatre in the twentieth century
Sandra M. Cypess 497
16 Latin American (Hispanic Caribbean) literature written in the United
States
William Luis 526
17 Chicano literature
Luis Leal and Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez 557
Index 587
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Contributors
Carlos J. Alonso, Emory University
Daniel Balderston, Tulane University
Sandra M. Cypess, University of Maryland
Anibal Gonzalez, Pennsylvania State University
Cathy L. Jrade, Vanderbilt University
Vera M. Kutzinski, Yale University
Luis Leal, University of California, Santa Barbara
William Luis, Vanderbilt University
Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez, Yale University
Sylvia Molloy, New York University
José Miguel Oviedo, University of Pennsylvania
Gustavo Pellón, University of Virginia
Randolph D. Pope, Washington University
René Prieto, Southern Methodist University
José Quiroga, The George Washington University
John Rutherford, Queen's College, Oxford University
Hugo J. Verani, University of California, Davis
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