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The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature Vol. 1: Discovery to Modernism

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Discovery to Modernism

Series The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature, Volume 1

Edited by Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo-Walker

Publication Date 1996

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521340694

Hardback ISBN-10
0521340691

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521340694

Overview

The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature is by far the most comprehensive 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 USA. 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 1 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.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction to Volume 1
by
Enrique Pupo-Walker

A brief history of the history of Spanish American Literature
by
Roberto González Echevarría

Cultures in contact: Mesoamerica, the Andes, and the European written tradition
by
Rolena Adorno

The first fifty years of Hispanic New World historiography: the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America
by
Stephanie Merrim

Historians of the conquest and colonization of the New World: 1550–1620
by
Kathleen Ross

Historians of the colonial period: 1620–1700
by
David H. Bost

Colonial lyric
by
Roberto González Echevarría

Epic poetry
by
Margarita Peña

Spanish American theatre of the colonial period
by
Frederick Luciani

Viceregal culture
by
Asunción Lavrin

The eighteenth century: narrative forms, scholarship, and learning
by
Karen Stolley

Lyric poetry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
by
Andrew Bush

Spanish American theatre of the eighteenth century
by
Frederick Luciani

The nineteenth-century Spanish American novel
by
Antonio Benítez-Rojo

The brief narrative in Spanish America: 1835–1915
by
Enrique Pupo-Walker

The Spanish American theatre of the nineteenth century
by
Frank Dauster

The essay in Spanish South America: 1800 to Modernismo
by
Nicolas Shumway

The essay of nineteenth-century Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
by
Martin S. Stabb

The gaucho genre
by
Josefina Ludmer

Bibliographies

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