The Cambridge history of Latin American literature
By: edited by Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo-Walker.
Contributors: González Echevarría, Roberto.; Pupo-Walker, Enrique.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Latin American literature -- History and criticism
Description: "Primary and vital resource for literary specialists, historians, students of all levels, and general readers interested in this period. Leading scholars write about diverse genres (narrative, essay, poetry, theater) and cultural interests and ideas (intellectual life, historiography, Viceregal culture, Mesoamerican indigenous peoples and cultures). Literature articles include analysis and discussion of canonic and previously marginalized authors and treat representative works, genres, and literary and philosophical currents. Extremely useful, well written, and interesting"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Discovery to modernism; title: v. 2. The twentieth century; title: v. 3. Brazilian literature. Bibliographies.