Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel

Name: Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel
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ISBN: 9780292706705

ISBN-10: 0292706707

ISBN-13: 9780292706705

Edition: 2003

Authors: Raymond Leslie Williams

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"A truly comprehensive overview of the Spanish American novel from 1900 to 1999." Virginia Quarterly Review "In what undoubtedly will be a very useful guide for students and established scholars alike, Williams presents a panoramic picture of the Latin American novel in the 20th century, a picture that is utterly convincing not only for its impressive breadth but also for the way Williams organizes it. Working with the category of 'the modern' and identifying the various responses to it from novelists throughout the region, the book's five sections span the range from early post-Ruben Darian fiction to post-postmodern novels. In between, Williams presents a succinct and useful reading… of both canonical and marginalized but aesthetically relevant writers from all periods. Particularly adroit is his discussion of the hegemony and ulterior demise of masculinist aesthetics as feminist and queer fiction emerged, particularly toward the end of the century. Additionally, discussion of Chicano writing attests to the book's breadth and inclusiveness. Summing up: Essential." Choice "Williams is among the very few scholars who are capable of producing such a sweeping perspective.... This study will be useful to specialized and non-specialized readers alike. For the latter, it provides a full grasp of the literary production coming out of Latin America during the entire twentieth century." Dick Gerdes, Professor of Spanish and Chair of Foreign Languages, University of Las Vegas 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 in twentieth-century Spanish American literature and thus a very useful lens through which to view the century's novels. In this pathfinding study, Raymond L. Williams offers the first complete analytical and critical overview of the Spanish American novel throughout the entire twentieth century. Using the desire to be modern as his organizing principle, he divides the century's novels into five periods and discusses the differing forms that "the modern" took in each era. For each period, Williams begins with a broad overview of many novels, literary contexts, and some cultural debates, followed by new readings of both canonical and significant non-canonical novels. A special feature of this book is its emphasis on women writers and other previously ignored and/or marginalized authors, including experimental and gay writers. Williams also clarifies the legacy of the Boom, the Postboom, and the Postmodern as he introduces new writers and new novelistic trends of the 1990s.

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 12/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface



The Literary Tradition and Modern Science, 1900-1921



Novelistic and Cultural Contexts at the Turn of the Century



Rereading Spanish American Classics



Traditional and Modernist Aesthetics, 1922-1940



Novelistic and Cultural Contexts in the 1920s and 1930s



Rereading Spanish American Criollista Classics



Rereading Novels of Vanguardia



The Rise of the Modernist Novel, 1941-1961



Novelistic and Cultural Contexts of Latin American Modernism



Rereading Spanish American Modernist Novels



Modern and Cosmopolitan Works, 1962-1967



Novels and Contexts of the Boom and Beyond



Rereading Novels of the Boom



Rereading the Spanish American Novel beyond the Boom



Toward a Postboom, Feminist, and Postmodern Novel, 1968-1999



Novelistic and Cultural Contexts in the 1970s and 1980s



Rereading the Spanish American Novel of the 1970s and 1980s



Modern, Postmodern, and Transnational: The Latin American Novel in the 1990s


Notes


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