Description
Book SynopsisTo give everyone interested in contemporary Spanish American fiction a broad understanding of its literary antecedents, this book offers an authoritative survey of four centuries of Spanish American narrative.
Trade ReviewEarly Spanish American Narrative is based on careful scholarship, but provides an accessible introduction to the Spanish-language literature of the Americas for the general reader as well as for scholars. * Southwest BookViews *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction and Background
- The Framework of This Study
- Research into Native American Writing Systems and Narrative
- 1. Narrative Accounts of the Encounter and Conquest
- 2. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Literary Life in the Colonies
- 3. The Struggle for Nationhood and the Rise of Fiction
- 4. The Mid-Nineteenth Century: Romanticism, Realism, and Nationalism
- 5. Late-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Social Commentary and National Self-Reflection
- 6. Naturalism and Modernismo
- Conclusion: Then and Now
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
