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Book SynopsisIn the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa all became part of the general culture of educated readers of English, French, German, and Italian. But few know about the literary tradition from which these writers emerged. This Very Short Introduction remedies this situation, providing an overview of modern Latin American literature from the late eighteenth century to the present. Roberto González Echevarría covers a wide range of topics, discussing the birth of Modernismo, the first Latin American literary movement; how the end of World War I and the Mexican Revolution produced the avant-garde; and how the Cuban Revolution sparked a movement in the novel that came to be known as the Boom. Within this narrative, the author covers many of the major writers of Latin American literature, from Andrés Bello and José María de Heredia through Borges and García Márquez to Fernando Vallejo and Roberto Bolaño. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade Review"Insightful and often eloquent, this is a superb introduction to major figures and trends in modern Latin American literature by the leading authority in the field."--Gustavo Pérez Firmat, David Feinson Professor in the Humanities, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1: Poetry from Romanticism to Modernismo: Bello to Dario ; Chapter 2: Nineteenth-Century Prose: the Revelation of Latin America ; Chapter 3: Poetry from Modernismo to Modernism ; Chapter 4: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century: Regionalism to Modernism ; Chapter 5: Latin American Literature Today ; References ; Further Reading ; Index

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Book SynopsisAunque este libro puede parecer escrito a cuatro manos por sus dos autores, no lo es realmente; cada uno de nosotros escribió su parte independientemente, aunque consultándonos a menudo y pensando en una totalidad coherente. La idea para este libro nació poco después de comenzar a escribir nuestras respectivas Very Short Introductions para la serie de Oxford. Al pensar en el lector que quisiera leer tanto el de Colonial Latin American Literature como el de Modern Latin American Literature, decidimos crear un puente con la figura y obra de Andrés Bello (1781-1865).Fue Bello, quien como el Jano de las letras latinoamericanas, miró tanto para atrás (hacia el Poema del Mío Cid) como para adelante la celebración poética de la América independiente, la gramática para el uso de los americanos, y la Biblioteca Americana y el Repertorio Americano, dedicados a la formación cultural de la ciudadanía latinoamericana. Lo hicimos porque consideramos que la historia de las letras hispanoamericanas es una larga tradición completa y coherente. Completa porque vemos las mismas o parecidas preocupaciones expresándose en forma escrita sobre la marcha del tiempo y coherente porque las variaciones sobre sus temas nos informan sobre la transformación de las letras y las mentalidades que les dan vida.

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Book Synopsis By one of the most original and learned critical voices in Hispanic studies— a timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature. An ideology is implicit in modern Latin American literature, argues Roberto González Echevarría, through which both the literature itself and criticism of it define what Latin American literature is and how it ought to be read. In the works themselves this ideology is constantly subjected to a radical critique, and that critique renders the ideology productive and in a sense is what constitutes the work. In literary criticism, however, too frequently the ideology merely serves as support for an authoritative discourse that seriously misrepresents Latin American literature. In The Voice of the Masters, González Echevarría attempts to uncover the workings of modern Latin American literature by creating a dialogue of texts, a dynamTrade Review. . . a challenging book for the reader, bold, innovative, and profound, as one would expect from Roberto González Echevarría. * Hispanic Review *...breaks new ground in the interpretation of Latin American literature. * World Literature Today *Language and authority may well be inseparable. Unfortunately, as these essays point out, the reality of Latin America reflects excessive abuses on both counts. The Voice of the Masters clearly reflects the need for a more pluralistic Latin American society in which divergent ideologies are allowed to be expressed without fear of native or foreign interference. * Times of the Americas *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preamble 1. The Case of the Speaking Statue: Ariel and the Magisterial Rhetoric of the Latin American Essay 2. Doña Bárbara Writes the Plain 3. The Dictatorship of Rhetoric/The Rhetoric of Dictatorship 4. Terra Nostra: Theory and Practice 5. Los reyes: Cortázar’s Mythology of Writing 6. Biografía de un cimarrón and the Novel of the Cuban Revolution 7. Literature and Exile: Carpentier’s “Right of Sanctuary” “Meta-End,” by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Translated, with an Introduction, Commentary, and Notes Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando El Duque Hernandez, here is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with the politics, music, dance, and literature of the Cuban people. What emerges is more than a story of balls and strikes, but a richly detailed history of Cuba told from the unique cultural perch of the baseball diamond. Filling a void created by Cuba''s rejection of bullfighting and Spanish hegemony, baseball quickly became a crucial stitch in the complex social fabric of the island. By the early 1940s Cuba had become major conduit in spreading the game throughout Latin America, and a proving ground for some of the greatest talent in all of baseball, where white major leaguers and Negro League players from the U.S. all competed on the same fields with the cream of Latin talent. Indeed, readers will be introduced to several blTrade ReviewCuba's love affair with the American bat and ball is given encyclopedic treatment in The Pride of Havana ... the prose is as smooth and powerful as a good pitch delivery ... Best of all is the backdrop of history - political, social and popular - against which the baseball stars perform ... For students of old Cuba, Echevarría's book hits a home run. * John Lantigua, Times Literary Supplement *The Pride of Havana is an absorbing history of Cuban baseball and the impact so many Cuban players have had on the game in the United States. It sparkles like El Duque in October. * Bob Costas, NBC Sports *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The analysis is sharp, and the points of reference are consistently engaging . . . the syntheses, range of inquiry, and knowledge of the period are impressive.”—Choice * Choice *

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Book SynopsisEdith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classicTrade Review“For most English-language readers, Cervantes is a one-book wonder. But these twelve novellas, newly translated by the virtuosic Edith Grossman, are a revelation to us. They are a feast for Cervantes’ admirers, and stand truly by themselves—witty, naughty, trenchant, smart, widely ranging, thoroughly modern and readable. Coming late in Cervantes’ life, they are a sly and mischievous and memorable adiós—just as we would expect.”—Richard Ford“Exemplary Novels spans nearly the whole creative life of Cervantes. . . . The book is like a summing up of Cervantes’s fiction, displaying its broad range of topics, characters, styles, and plots.”—Roberto González Echevarría, author of Cervantes’ Don Quixote (Open Yale Course Series)“It seems appropriate that Edith Grossman publishes her translation of the Exemplary Novels thirteen years after the printing of her masterful translation of Don Quijote, as it took Cervantes ten years to come out with his second part of Don Quijote. Thus the supreme English translation of the best novel ever written on this side of the galaxy both precedes and follows the colloquy of Cipión and Berganza, as the wise words of both dogs precede and proceed those of the knight and the squire on their painful search for the meaning of human identity.”—Carlos Rojas“Finally we have a worthy translation of Cervantes’s Exemplary Novels, the extraordinary follow-up to Don Quixote that enchanted generations of readers, but that has not been widely available to English readers in a version that approaches the sparkling original. Reading Edith Grossman’s gorgeous prose is like traveling to a far-off place, unearthing a hidden container, and finding in it a glove that slips onto your hand like a second skin.”—William Egginton, author of The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World“Edith Grossman is one of the best Hispanists in the English language world and an extraordinary translator. Her version of the Quijote, which appeared a few years ago, was unanimously celebrated, and the same will no doubt happen with this new version of Cervantes’s Exemplary Novels.”—Mario Vargas Llosa

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Book SynopsisAn epic that features an entire continent and its people.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria I A LAMP ON EARTH II THE HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU III THE CONQUISTADORS IV THE LIBERATORS VI AMERICA, I DO NOT INVOKE YOUR NAME IN VAIN VIII THE EARTH'S NAME IS JUAN IX LET THE WOODCUTTER AWAKEN X THE FUGITIVE XI THE FLOWERS OF PUNITAQUI XII THE RIVERS OF SONG XIII NEW YEAR'S CHORALE FOR THE COUNTRY IN DARKNESS XIV THE GREAT OCEAN XV I AM Notes

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Book SynopsisPresents the tale of a star-crossed courtship between the young nobleman Calisto and the beautiful maiden Melibea in fifteenth-century Spain.Trade Review"A new English version of Celestina - a surprisingly modern Spanish masterpiece of the Renaissance - by an accomplished American translator. What a treat for readers!" (Edith Grossman, translator of Don Quixote)"

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