1st Edition

Theoretical Debates in Spanish American Literature

Edited By David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda Copyright 1998
446 Pages
by Routledge

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, ethnic issues, politics and nationalism, and other important subjects.

1. Theoretical Debates in Spanish American Literature, 2. Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period, 3. From Romanticism to Modernismo in Latin America, 4. Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature to 1960, 5. Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature since 1960

Biography

David William Foster is Regents' Professor of Spanish, Interdisiplinary Humanitics, and Women's Studies and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures at Arizona State University. He is the editor of Literatura Espanola: una Antologia, Literatura Hispanoamericana: una Antologia, and Handbook of Latin American Literature, Second Edition, all published by Garland.
Daniel Altamiranda is Visiting Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. Former Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, he has published on literary theory, contemporary Latin American writing and Golden Age Drama.