This book examines the foremost postmodern Latin American writers of the past 25 years and places the current literary scene in its proper political and cultural context. Focusing on fiction from the 1970s to the present, Williams discusses the new generation of postmodern writers.
Beginning with an introduction to Colombia's history, this text subsequently includes discussion of the importance of Catholicism in daily and civic life, the significance of traditional foods and clothing; Colombian literature and the performing and plastic arts.
Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century. Indeed, the desire to be "modern" is a constant preoccupation ...
Novels such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude" have awakened English language readers to the existence of Colombian literature in recent years, but Colombia has a well-established literary tradition that far predates the Latin American 'boom'. In this pathfinding study, Raymond Leslie Williams provides an overview of seventeen major authors and ...
Series Editor: Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University The volumes in this series examine significant literary foundations of the novel, by applying the most recent critical approaches: Marxism, feminism, structuralism, and others. Each volume surveys a specific novel-writing tradition, and includes: A chronology listing publication dates of ...
Raymond Leslie Williams ha dividido este libro en tres partes. La primera es la biografia de Carlos Fuentes desde su nacimiento, en 1928, hasta 1993, donde analiza el papel que desempena la obra de Fuentes en la cultura y en la formacion de la identidad americana. La segunda parte inicia con un analisis de El Escorial, que se extiende a otros ...
Smitten by the modernity of Cervantes and Borges at an early age, Carlos Fuentes has written extensively on the cultures of the Americas and elsewhere. His work includes over a dozen novels, among them The Death of Artemio Cruz, Christopher Unborn, The Old Gringo, and Terra Nostra, several volumes of short stories, numerous essays on literary, ...
Mario Vargas Liosa is considered to be one of the most important contemporary writers. This book analyzes all his works, from Los Jefes to La Fiesta del Chivo, and includes a complete biography, giving us an inside look into his writings.
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