Spanish American Literature: A Collection of Essays
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature since 1960
1st Edition
Edited
By David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda
January 01, 1998
For Latin American literature of the second half of the 20th century, critics have proposed such labels as new novel and new new novel, boom and post-boom, women's literature, testimonial, postmodern literature, and the like. Given the fact that none of these designations is entirely satisfactory ...
From Romanticism to Modernismo in Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda
December 01, 1997
The 19th century in Latin America begins with the weakening of the political institutions established by the Spanish Crown, the emergence of a native consciousness and the diffusion of the ideas of the French Revolution and the United States. These articles examine the phenomena that mark the onset...
Theoretical Debates in Spanish American Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda
December 01, 1997
This volume brings together papers on various theoretical questions that have been raised in recent debates in Spanish American literary studies. It provides varying perspectives and explores diverse theoretical approaches to colonial culture, testimonial writing, gender studies, postmodernism, ...
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature to 1960
1st Edition
Edited
By David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda
December 01, 1997
The greater body of Spanish American letters stands in somewhat of an ancillary relationship to the traditions that arose in Europe. Only at the end of the 19th century, with the emergence of modernismo, which was linked to European aesthetic movements such as French Parnassianism and Symbolism, ...
Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period
1st Edition
Edited
By David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda
December 01, 1997
These critical studies propose innovative readings and overall reformulations of the texts and authors that stand as representative of the period for the contemporary reader. The first group of articles refers to reports, chronicles, and Renaissance epics, a vast block of texts that fall in most ...