A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book

This is the first full-length study in English of the Peruvian poet, César Vallejo (1892-1938). Franco explores limitations on the poet's freedom of speech, and goes on to explore Vallejo's later poetry, which gestures towards the tentative nature of humanity and civilisation that gives the poetry its abiding relevance.

This "is the first book to address the complex relationship between poetry and journalism. In two chapters on civilian literatures of the Spanish Civil War, five chapters on World War II, and an epilogue on contemporary poetry about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Galvin combines analysis of poetic form with attention to socio-historical context, drawing on rare archival sources and furnishing new translations"--Dust jacket flap.

En Vallejo, el poeta y el cronista se alían para dar lugar a un sentido nuevo de la política y de la poética, que consiste en cambiar radicalmente las coordenadas de lo posible. El cronista es un testigo directo de los hechos, al punto de estar en condiciones de extraer la promesa poética de futuridad que anida en lo cotidiano. El poeta —el testigo ciego— va hacia las cosas y los seres con un cuerpo verbal que los precipita hacia la intemperie del sentido, fuera de los límites de la significación; nominación oblicua ante la cual nada subsiste tal como era antes; gestación sin norma, sin código, manifestación pura de lo viviente, subversión del nombre en el nombre.