Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel

This Handbook charts the literary tradition of the Latin American novel from its beginnings during colonial times, its development during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, and its flourishing from the 1960s onward. Forty-five chapters by leading international scholars explore the regions, representations of identity, narrative trends, and authors that make this literature so diverse and fascinating, reflecting on the Latin American novel's position in world literature.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Contributors


• Introduction


• Juan E. De Castro and Ignacio López-Calvo


• Part I: History


• 1. The Novel in the Colonial Period


• Raquel Chang-Rodríguez


• 2. A Picaresque Parrot and Decent Domesticity: Novel Nations in Latin America


• Doris Sommer


• 3. The Nineteenth-century Brazilian Novel and the Transcendence of Machado de Assis


• Paul Dixon


• 4. The Regional Novel and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution on Common Ground


• Tamara L. Mitchell and Amanda M. Smith


• 5. Social Realism, Indigenismo, and the Vindication of the Other


• Begoña Pulido Herráez


• 6. The New Novel in Latin America (1920-1950)


• Philip Swanson


• 7. The Latin American Novel in the 1960s and Early 1970s: The Boom and Beyond


• Juan E. De Castro


• 8. The Postmodern Novel and the Postboom in Latin America


• José Manuel Medrano and Raymond L. Williams


• 9. Latin American Narrative in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century


• Ana Gallego Cuiñas


• Part II: Space


• 10. From the Center to the Margins: Itineraries of Modernity in the Mexican Novel


• Martin Camps


• 11. The Central American Novel


• Nanci Buiza


• 12. Imagined Multitudes in the Spanish-Language Caribbean Novel


• Mariana Bolívar Rubín


• 13. The Andean Novel: The (De)construction of a Written Territory


• Núria Vilanova


• 14. The Southern Cone Novel (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay)


• Gorica Majstorovic


• 15. The Brazilian Novel: An Outline from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century


• Fernando de Sousa Rocha and Luiz Carlos Santos Simon


• Part III: Race and Ethnicity


• 16. The Indigenous Novel: Los dolores de una raza, a Forerunner Work


• Miguel Rocha Vivas


• 17. The Afro-Latin American Novel and the Novel about Afro-Latin Americans


• William Luis


• 18. The Jewish-Latin American Novel


• Darrell B. Lockhart


• 19. The Arab Latin-American Novel


• Christina E. Civantos and Tracey Maher


• 20. The Asian-Latin American Novel


• Ignacio López-Calvo


• Part IV: Gender and Sexuality


• 21. Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Nation


• Francesca Denegri


• 22. Twentieth-Century Women Writers and the Feminist Novel


• María Rosa Olivera-Williams


• 23. Form and Difference in the Latin American LGBTQ Novel


• Vinodh Venkatesh


• Part V: Narrative Trends


• 24. The Latin American Historical Novel through the Lens of the Dictator(ship) Novel


• Helene C. Weldt-Basson


• 25. Magical Realism and the Marvelous Real in the Novel


• Amaryll Chanady


• 26. The Testimonial Novel and Autofiction


• Cecilia Esparza


• 27. Popular Fictions and Artistic Narrative: Detective Fiction, Science Fiction, and Fantasy


• Persephone Braham


• 28. The Experimental Novel in Latin America


• Andreas Kurz


• 29. Historical, Critical, and Theoretical Work on the Latin American Novel


• José Eduardo González


• 30. The Latin American Novel and New Technology


• Melissa Fitch


• Part V: Authors


• 31. The New Frontiers in the Narrative of María Luisa Bombal


• Alexis Candia-Cáceres


• 32. José María Arguedas's Poetics of the Novel


• Javier García Liendo


• 33. All the Novels, the Novel: Cortázar's Relentless Search for Aesthetic Freedom


• Carolina Orloff


• 34. Mapping Juan Rulfo


• Anadeli Bencomo


• 35. One Hundred Years of Clarice Lispector: The Star of the Hour


• Claire Williams


• 36. Gabriel García Márquez as Local and Universalist, Traditional cum Modernist Storyteller


• Gene H. Bell-Villada


• 37. Carlos Fuentes's Narrative Universe


• Maarten Van Delden


• 38. Manuel Puig: Between Pop-Art and Psychoanalysis


• Jorgelina Corbatta


• 39. Reportage, Testimony, and Biography in the Novels of Elena Poniatowska


• Michael K. Schuessler


• 40. Mario Vargas Llosa between Literature and Politics


• Sabine Köllmann


• 41. Transnational, Intermedial Pressures in Roberto Bolaño's Prose Poem Novels


• Jonathan B. Monroe


• 42. Rita Indiana's Tentacled Novels


• Rita De Maeseneer


• Part VI: Reception


• 43. The Latin American Novel in English and French


• Roberto Ignacio Díaz


• 44. The Worldwide Influence of the Latin American Novel


• Nicholas Birns


• 45. The Latin American Novel as World Literature


• Benjamin Loy


• Index

About the author

Juan E. De Castro is a professor of literary studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. He is the author of Writing Revolution in Latin America: From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño and Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui, among other works.

Ignacio López-Calvo is Presidential Chair in the Humanities, Director of the Center for the Humanities, and Professor of Literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of more than one-hundred articles and book chapters, as well as nine single-authored books and seventeen essay collections. His latest books are The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, Performance, Saudades of Japan and Brazil: Contested Modernities in Lusophone Nikkei Cultural Production; Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Tusán Literature and Knowledge in Peru; and The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru.

Summary

The Latin American novel burst onto the international literary scene with the Boom era--led by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa--and has influenced writers throughout the world ever since. García Márquez and Vargas Llosa each received the Nobel Prize in literature, and many of the best-known contemporary novelists are inspired by the region's fiction. Indeed, magical realism, the style associated with García Márquez, has left a profound imprint on African American, African, Asian, Anglophone Caribbean, and Latinx writers. Furthermore, post-Boom literature continues to garner interest, from the novels of Roberto Bolaño to the works of César Aira and Chico Buarque, to those of younger novelists such as Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Alejandro Zambra, and Valeria Luiselli. Yet, for many readers, the Latin American novel is often read in a piecemeal manner delinked from the traditions, authors, and social contexts that help explain its evolution.

The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel draws literary, historical, and social connections so that readers will come away understanding this literature as a rich and compelling canon. In forty-five chapters by leading and innovative scholars, the Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction, helping readers to see the region's intrinsic heterogeneity--for only with a broader view can one fully appreciate García Márquez or Bolaño. This volume charts the literary tradition of the Latin American novel from its beginnings during colonial times, its development during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, and its flourishing from the 1960s onward. Furthermore, the Handbook explores the regions, representations of identity, narrative trends, and authors that make this literature so diverse and fascinating, reflecting on the Latin American novel's position in world literature.

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Product details

• Authors: Juan E. (Professor of Literary Studies De Castro
• Assisted by: Juan E. De Castro (Editor), Juan E. (Professor of Literary Studies De Castro (Editor), De Castro Juan E. (Editor), Ignacio (residential Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Literature Lopez-Calvo (Editor), Ignacio Lòpez-Calvo (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9780197541852
• ISBN: 978-0-19-754185-2
• No. of pages: 890
• Series: Oxford Handbooks of Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Latin America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Spanish, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000