Modern Latin American literature
Subtitle: a very short introduction
By: Roberto González Echevarría
Series: Very short introductions
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780199754915
Subjects: History and criticism; Spanish American literature
Description: This title chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Poetry from romanticism to modernismo : Bello to Darío; title: Nineteenth-century prose : the revelation of Latin America; title: Poetry from modernismo to modernism; title: Latin American fiction in the twentieth century : regionalism to modernism; title: Latin American literature today; title: Further reading.