Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel

Name: Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel
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ISBN: 9780521532198

ISBN-10: 0521532191

ISBN-13: 9780521532198

Edition: 2005

Authors: Efraï¿½n Kristal

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The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often…

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List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/26/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Notes on contributors


Acknowledgments


Note on translations


Chronology


Introduction




History



The nineteenth-century Latin American novel




The regional novel and beyond




The Boom of the Latin American novel




The Post-Boom novel




Heterogeneity



The Brazilian novel




The Caribbean novel




The Andean novel




The Central American novel




Gender and sexuality



Gender studies




The lesbian and gay novel in Latin America




Six novels



Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis




Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo




The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector




One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende




The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa



Epilogue



The Latin American novel in English translation



Bibliography