The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century

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-Colombian times to the present, and contain chapters on Latin American writing in the USA. Volume 2 provides coverage of all genres from the end of the nineteenth century up to García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and beyond to 1990, thus including discussion of Spanish American literature’s best-known works. The novel, poetry, autobiographical narrative, the short story, Afro-Hispanic American literature, theatre, and Chicano literature are among the areas treated in this wide-ranging volume.

•Volume 2 of the first full history of Latin American literature available in English • An essential work of reference and a necessary purchase for any serious library • A comprehensive, chronological history containing important new research: the standard work for many years to come

List of contributors; General preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction to Volume 2; 1. Modernist poetry Cathy L. Jrade; 2. Modernist prose Aníbal González; 3. The Vanguardia and its implications Hugo J. Verani; 4. The literature of Indigenismo René Prieto; 5. Afro-Hispanic American literature Vera M. Kutzinski; 6. The criollista novel; 7. The novel of the Mexican revolution Carlos J. Alonso; 8. The Spanish American novel from 1950 to 1975 Randolph D. Pope; 9. The Spanish American novel: recent developments, 1975 to 1990 Gustavo Pellón; 10. Spanish American poetry, from 1922 to 1975 José Quiroga; 11. The modern essay in Spanish America José Miguel Oviedo; 12. Literary criticism in Spanish America Aníbal González; 13. The autobiographical narrative Sylvia Molloy; 14. The twentieth-century short story in Spanish America Daniel Balderston; 15. Spanish American theatre in the twentieth century Sandra M. Cypess; 16. Latin American (Hispanic Caribbean) literature written in the United States William Luis; 17. Chicano literature Luis Leal and Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez; Index.