Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature / Edition 1

by Verity Smith

Overview

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781579582524
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/01/2000
Edition description:	Abridged
Pages:	700
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter African-American Literature; Chapter Argentina; Chapter 20th-Century Prose and Poetry; Chapter 46 Autobiography; Part Best-Sellers; Chapter 58 Isabel Allende 19; Chapter 66 Bolivia; Chapter El jardm de senderos que se; Chapter Caliban; Chapter Carpentier, Alejo 1904-1980; Cuban prose writer, musicologist and cultural historian; Chapter Une Tempete; Chapter Colonial Literature; Chapter Conde, Maryse 19; Guadeloupean novelist, playwright and essayist; Chapter Cortazar, Julio 1914-1984; Argentine prose writer; Chapter Dalton, Roque 19; Chapter Dominican Republic; 19th- and 20th-Century Prose and Poetry; Chapter Echeverria, Esteban 1805-1851; Part El Salvador; 19th- and 20th-Century Prose and Poetry; Chapter Il6; Chapter Erotic and Homoerotic Writing; Chapter Feminism; Chapter Gallegos, Romulo 1884-1969; Chapter El general en su laberinto; Chapter Asomos; Chapter i i Guatemala; 19th- and 20th-Century Prose and Poetry; Chapter Hernandez, Jose 1834-1886; Chapter Identity; Chapter Jewish Writing; Chapter Mundo Nuevo (1966-1971); Part La Revue du Monde Noir; Chapter 332 332; Part Land and Literature; Chapter Lezama Lima, Jose 1; Cuban poet and prose writer; Chapter Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria; Chapter 3j 6; Chapter Modernismo; Brazil; Chapter Mulatto; Chapter Nahuatl Literature; Chapter Ocampo, Victoria 1890-1979; Chapter Panama; Chapter El laberinto de la soledad; Part El beso de la mujer arana; Chapter Quechua Literature; Chapter 5 *8 Selection of Short Stories; Chapter Ramos, Graciliano 1; Chapter La Revue du Monde Noir see; Chapter Rosa, Joao Guimaraes see Guimaraes; Chapter Sabato, Ernesto 1; Part 566 Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino; Argentine politician, educator, man of letters; Chapter Science in Spanish American; Chapter Testimonial Writing; Chapter Transculturation; Part Travel Literature; Chapter Uruguay; Part Common Common Common Common Common Common Common Common Common Common Common Common Common Common Common Common Common CCoommmmoonnCCoommmmoonn Common Common Common Common Common Common Com Co mmomn on Common Common Common Common Common Common Common Common Common; Chapter Vallejo, Cesar 18; Peruvian poet and prose writer; Chapter Cecilia Valdes; Chapter 66 3;

Editorial Reviews

"This volume is a useful reference tool for new users as well as experts... The editor has been successful in concentrating a daunting amount of material into a concise and user-friendly, yet substantial, reference work." — American Reference Books Annual
"Smith has done an excellent job of creating a more portable, certainly abbreviated, yet very useful and comprehensive desktop version of that 1000-page tome for quick reference...This book belongs on the desk of every scholar of Latin American literature. Recommended for all libraries." — Library Journal
"The TLS reviewer wrote that 'at a time when much academic literary criticism is frankly unreadable, it is a pleasure to come across so much well-wrote prose,' and I certainly learned a great deal from leafing through this book." — Reference Reviews

From the Publisher

Smith, the editor of the original Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature (LJ 6/1/97), has done an excellent job of creating a more portable, certainly abbreviated, yet very useful and comprehensive desktop version of that 1000-page tome for quick reference. The editor has wisely decided to leave the survey articles on the literature of individual countries and topics in their entirety, and these serve as the backbone of the book. The articles on individual authors have been shortened, yet each entry, written by an expert, is a masterly description and evaluation of the writer's works, rounded out by a biography and a listing of selected works and of resources for further reading. There is also an attempt to cover areas not previously emphasized in other Latin American literature encyclopedias. This includes the work of Hispanic minorities in the United States and of the Francophone Caribbean, which is greatly influenced by the effects of European colonialism. This book belongs on the desk of every scholar of Latin American literature. Recommended for all libraries.--Glenn Masuchika, Rockwell Collins Info Ctr., Cedar Rapids, IA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

From and to and one to ten-plus page entries include historical and literary context, biographies and selected works in the case of authors, further reading, and cross-references. A sampling of topics includes: Isabel Allende, best-sellers, literacy campaigns, Marxism and culture in Spanish America, modernismo, and less expected, children's literature and Jewish writing. Includes an alphabetical list of entries and works; a general reading list on literature from the colonial period, and 19th and 20th centuries; and notes on 132 contributors, advisers, and translators. Indexed by title and subject. Photos would have been a simp<'a>tico addition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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