The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel - POD TITLE

Informationen zum Autor Efraín Kristal is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zusammenfassung This Companion offers a broad overview of the Latin American novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. Students of Latin American studies and comparative literature will find this a stimulating and indispensable guide. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Efraín Kristal; Part I. History: 1. The nineteenth-century Latin American novel Naomi Lindstrom; 2. The regional novel and beyond Brian Gollnick; 3. The boom of the Latin American novel John King; 4. The post-boom novel Philip Swanson; Part II. Heterogeneity: 5. The Brazilian novel Piers Armstrong; 6. The Caribbean novel William Luis; 7. The Andean novel Ismael Marquez; 8. The Central American novel Roy C. Boland Osegueda; Part III. Gender and Sexuality: 9. Gender studies Catherine Davies; 10. The lesbian and gay novel in Latin America Daniel Balderston and José Maristany; Part IV. Six Novels: 11. Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis Marta Peixoto; 12. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo Jason Wilson; 13. The Passion according to G. H. by Clarice Lispector Claire Williams; 14. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Steven Boldy; 15. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Stephen Hart; 16. The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa Michelle Clayton; Part V. Epilogue: 17. The Latin American novel in English translation Suzanne Jill Levine; Bibliography Kelly Austin and Ryan Kernan.

Product details

• Authors: Efrain Kristal
• Assisted by: Efrain Kristal (Editor), Efraín Kristal (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.05.2005
• EAN: 9780521532198
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53219-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Literature: history & criticism, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form