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Author: Aníbal González
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-11-26
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0521414253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA broad historical panorama of the journalist/narrative interaction, exploring the impact of journalism and journalistic rhetoric on the development of Spanish American narrative.
Author: Naomi Lindstrom
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009-09-15
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0292778120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world discovered Latin American literature in the twentieth century, but the roots of this rich literary tradition reach back beyond Columbus's discovery of the New World. The great pre-Hispanic civilizations composed narrative accounts of the acts of gods and kings. Conquistadors and friars, as well as their Amerindian subjects, recorded the clash of cultures that followed the Spanish conquest. Three hundred years of colonization and the struggle for independence gave rise to a diverse body of literature—including the novel, which flourished in the second half of the nineteenth century. To give everyone interested in contemporary Spanish American fiction a broad understanding of its literary antecedents, this book offers an authoritative survey of four centuries of Spanish American narrative. Naomi Lindstrom begins with Amerindian narratives and moves forward chronologically through the conquest and colonial eras, the wars for independence, and the nineteenth century. She focuses on the trends and movements that characterized the development of prose narrative in Spanish America, with incisive discussions of representative works from each era. Her inclusion of women and Amerindian authors who have been downplayed in other survey works, as well as her overview of recent critical assessments of early Spanish American narratives, makes this book especially useful for college students and professors.
Author: Kathleen Ross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-03-25
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780521451130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a critical study placing both Sigüenza and his narrative within the Spanish American baroque era.
Author: Stephen M. Hart
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1855661470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to Latin American Literature offers a lively and informative introduction to the most significant literary works produced in Latin America from the fifteenth century until the present day. It shows how the press, and its product the printed word, functioned as the common denominator binding together, in different ways over time, the complex and variable relationship between the writer, the reader and the state. The meandering story of the evolution of Latin American literature - from the letters of discovery written by Christopher Columbus and Vaz de Caminha, via the Republican era at the end of the nineteenth century when writers in Rio de Janeiro as much as in Buenos Aires were beginning to live off their pens as journalists and serial novelists, until the 1960s when writers of the quality of Clarice Lispector in Brazil and García Márquez in Colombia suddenly burst onto the world stage - is traced chronologically in six chapters which introduce the main writers in the main genres of poetry, prose, the novel, drama, and the essay. A final chapter evaluates the post-boom novel, testimonio, Latino and Brazuca literature, gay, Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Brazilian literature, along with the Novel of the New Millennium. This study also offers suggestions for further reading. STEPHEN M. HART is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University College London, and Profesor Honorario, Universidad de San Marcos, Lima.
Author: Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999-07-15
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 0195130855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together 53 stories that span the history of Latin American literature and represent the most dazzling achievements in the form. It covers the entire history of Latin American short fiction, from the colonial period to present.
Author: Gerard Aching
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-09-28
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780521572491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1998 book studies the ways in which nineteenth-century Spanish American writers and intellectuals imagined, described, and promoted idealized notions of a pan-Hispanic culture.
Author: J. E. Luebering Manager and Senior Editor, Literature
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2010-08-15
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1615301054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an understanding of the events and cultural differences shaping these nations' texts, the lives of their writers, and the impact of Spanish and Latin American literature.
Author: Christopher Conway
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2015-07-14
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0826520618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNineteenth-Century Spanish America: A Cultural History provides a panoramic and accessible introduction to the era in which Latin America took its first steps into the Modern Age. Including colorful characters like circus clowns, prostitutes, bullfighters, street puppeteers, and bestselling authors, this book maps vivid and often surprising combinations of the new and the old, the high and the low, and the political and the cultural. Christopher Conway shows that beneath the diversity of the New World there was a deeper structure of shared patterns of cultural creation and meaning. Whether it be the ways that people of refinement from different countries used the same rules of etiquette, or how commoners shared their stories through the same types of songs, Conway creates a multidisciplinary framework for understanding the culture of an entire hemisphere. The book opens with key themes that will help students and scholars understand the century, such as the civilization and barbarism binary, urbanism, the divide between conservatives and liberals, and transculturation. In the chapters that follow, Conway weaves transnational trends together with brief case studies and compelling snapshots that help us understand the period. How much did books and photographs cost in the nineteenth century? What was the dominant style in painting? What kinds of ballroom dancing were popular? Richly illustrated with striking photographs and lithographs, this is a book that invites the reader to rediscover a past age that is not quite past, still resonating into the present.
Author: Maureen Ihrie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-10-20
Total Pages: 1509
ISBN-13: 0313080836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining roughly 850 entries about Spanish-language literature throughout the world, this expansive work provides coverage of the varied countries, ethnicities, time periods, literary movements, and genres of these writings. Providing a thorough introduction to Spanish-language literature worldwide and across time is a tall order. However, World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia contains roughly 850 entries on both major and minor authors, themes, genres, and topics of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, affording an amazingly comprehensive reference collection in a single work. This encyclopedia describes the growing diversity within national borders, the increasing interdependence among nations, and the myriad impacts of Spanish literature across the globe. All countries that produce literature in Spanish in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia are represented, covering both canonical authors and emerging contemporary writers and trends. Underrepresented writings—such as texts by women writers, queer and Afro-Hispanic texts, children's literature, and works on relevant but less studied topics such as sports and nationalism—also appear. While writings throughout the centuries are covered, those of the 20th and 21st centuries receive special consideration.
Author: Daniel Balderston
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 701
ISBN-13: 0415306876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric. The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well as being of huge interest to those folowing Spanish or Portuguese language courses.
