1st Edition
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature since 1960
402 Pages
by
Routledge
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 for fully charting the complex map of literary phenomena, this volume features an arrangement based... Read more
Series Introduction, Volume Introduction, Ernesto Sibato (1911-) Josi Lezama Lima (1912-1976) Octavio Paz (1914-) Julio Cortizar (1914-1984) Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) Josi Donoso (1924-) Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974) Garcia Mirquez (1928-) Carlos Fuentes (1928-) Guillermo Cabrera lnfante (1929-) Manual Puig (1932-1990) Elena Poniatowska (1933-) Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-) Luis Rafael Sänchez (1936-) Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) Luisa Valenzuela (1938-) Rosario Ferri (1940-) Isabai Allende (1942-) Relnaldo Arenas (1943-1990) Rlgoberta Menchu (1960?- ), Acknowledgements.
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.
