Description
Book SynopsisIn this survey of Central and South American literature, Earl Fitz provides the first book in English to analyse the Portuguese- and Spanish-language American canons in conjunction, uncovering valuable insights about both.
Trade Review“This book is 'old fashioned' yet visionary. Old fashioned because it is impervious to neoliberal university trends within 2000s hemispheric studies. Cutting edge because there is something truly astonishing about Fitz's four-decade-long commitment to the humanities and to literature as a comparative and multilingual field of study. It is a major work from an inter-Americanist pioneer who has served as the single greatest custodian of Literature of the Americas in print and in the classroom.” - Antonio Barrenechea, University of Mary Washington, author of
America Unbound: Encyclopedic Literature and Hemispheric StudiesTable of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Chapter One: The Iberian Origins
- 2. Chapter Two: Indigenous America
- 3. Chapter Three: The Literature of Discovery and Conquest
- 4. Chapter Four: The Flowering of Latin American Letters
- 5. Chapter Five: The Enlightenment and Independence
- 6. Chapter Six: The Nineteenth Century
- 7. Chapter Seven: Rubén Darío, Machado de Assis, and End-of-Century Brilliance
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
