First published in 1987 (this second edition in 1992), the Handbook of Latin American Literature offers readers the opportunity to explore this literary history in the English Language and constitutes an ideological approach to Latin American Literature. It provides both concise information concerning particular authors, works, and literary traditions of Latin America as well as comprehensive material about the various national literatures of the area. This book will therefore be of interest to Hispanic scholars, as well as more general readers and non-Hispanists.

Originally published in 1987, the Handbook offers separate essays on all Latin American countries, including French and Creole Haiti and Portuguese Brazil, written by scholars who focus on dominant issues, major movements, figures, and works, with emphasis on sociocultural and interpretive assessments. The material dates from the colonial period to the present day, and each essay concludes with an annotated bibliography. The new edition has been revised and updated, and it has also been expanded, with new chapters on the writings of the principal Hispanic groups in the US. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

In the 1960s, there occurred amongst Latin American writers a sudden explosion of literary activity known as the ‘Boom’. It marked an increase in the production and availability of innovative and experimental novels. But the ‘Boom’ of the 1960s should not be taken as the only flowering of Latin American fiction, for such novels dubbed ‘new novels’ were being written in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as in the 1970s and 1980s. In this edited collection, first published in 1990, Philip Swanson charts the development of Latin American fiction throughout the twentieth century. He assesses the impact of the ‘new novel’ on Latin American literature, and follows its growth. Nine key texts are analysed by contributors, including works by the ‘big four’ of the ‘Boom’ – Fuentes, Cortázar, Garcia Márquez and Vargas Llosa. This book will be of interest to critics and teachers of Latin American literature, and will be useful too as supplementary reading for students of Spanish and Hispanic Studies. It will also serve as a helpful introduction to those new to Latin American fiction.

The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation offers an understanding of translation in Latin America both at a regional and transnational scale. Broad in scope, it is devoted primarily to thinking comprehensively and systematically about the intersection of literary translation and Latin American literature, with a curated selection of original essays that critically engage with translation theories and practices outside of hegemonic Anglo centers. In this introductory volume, through survey and case-study chapters, contributing authors cover literary and cultural translation in the region historically, geographically, and linguistically. From the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, the chapters focus on issues ranging from the role of translation in the construction of national identities to the challenges of translation in the current digital age. Areas of interest expand from the United States to the Southern Cone, including the Caribbean and Brazil, as well as the impact of Latin American literature internationally, and paying attention to translation from and to indigenous languages; Portuguese, English, French, German, Chinese, Spanglish, and more. The first of its kind in English, this Handbook will shed light on different translation approaches and invite a rethinking of intercultural and interlingual exchanges from Latin American viewpoints. This is key reading for all scholars, researchers, and students of literary translation studies, Latin American literature, and comparative literature.

Introduction: Social and historical presentation / Pablo Baisotti -- Early representations of violence in Latin American literature. "Procuró sosegar y pacificar los indios": colonial violence in Latin America / M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo -- Discursive territories and epistemic violence in the Andean colonial indigenous literature / Nicolas Beauclair -- After Ercilla: violence and militarism in the colonial epic (1569-1610) / Javier de Navascués -- Women and war in the colonial Spanish American epic: gendered boundaries and erotic conquest / Sarissa Carneiro -- Spaces of violence in vice-royal chronicles: about Inca and Mexica-Tenochca narrative tradition / Jhonnatan Zavala, and Clementina Battcock -- Ideological violence in Latin American literature. Honor killing in 20th century Latin American fiction / Jay Corwin -- Frantz Fanon in his third world: violence and decolonization / Marcelo Sanhueza -- Inscriptions and configurations of violence: Italian immigration in Argentina / Fernanda Elisa Bravo Herrera -- History, violence and fiction in Alejo Carpentier's novel Reasons of state / Rodica Grigore -- Marxist-Leninist anti-capitalist success: muted violence in Yáñez's Edge of the storm, Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, and Galindo's Precipice / Nancy Ann Watanabe -- Martín Fierro as an integral part of the Peronist identity / Pablo Baisotti -- Postcolonial violence and indigeneity in the testimonio Andean lives: Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán / Ahmed Correa and Ignacio López-Calvo -- Popular violence and dictatorships in Latin American literature. Remembering violence: the narrative of '68 in Mexico / Stefano Tedeschi -- Dulce patria, a collection of poems about the Chilean dictatorship / Horacio Gutiérrez -- Pain is measured and detailed: representations of pain and guilt in the works of Alejandro Zambra and Carlos Gamerro / Macarena Areco -- From Nunca más to Ni una menos: testimony and fiction in contemporary Argentine narrative / Victoria García -- Rodolfo Walsh and Cuba: commitment and militancy in the shared origins of Latin American testimonio and third cinema / Alejandro Pedregal -- Violence and silence in the feminine narrative on the last civic-military dictactorship in Argentina: neither tricks of the weak nor resilience / Marcela Crespo Buiturón -- Representations of violence and peace in contemporary Central American narrative / Werner Mackenbach -- Counting and recounting stories and bodies: Alfredo Molano on violence and morality / Alejandro Sánchez Lopera -- Violence and responsibility: Ingrid Betancourt and no silence that does not end / Jeffrey Cedeño Mark -- New forms of violence in Latin American literature. Sons without a homeland: young migrants in contemporary literature / Elena Ritondale -- Solange Rodríguez Pappe, Mónica Ojeda and Denise Phé Funchal: femicide in contemporary fantastic literature / Emanuela Jossa -- Cien botellas en una pared and Blanco nocturno: the feminization and queering of representations of violencein Latin American novels of the [early] 21st century / Mariana Romo-Carmona -- Gender based violence in Latin-American neo crime fiction literature: The foreign girls by Sergio Olguín / Fabián Mossello -- Labor metamorphosis and violence against women in Sergio Chejfec's The dark / Matías Beverinotti -- Skin-deep: a psycho-ontological analysis of violence in Sergio Bizzio's Rabia / Alexander Torres -- Representations of violence in Mexico's theater / Hugo Salcedo Larios -- Postapocalyptic violence in 21st-century Mexican fiction / Aurelio Iván Guerra, and Gabriel Osuna Osuna -- "The past is forever unpredictable": aesthetic and political projections in contemporary Bolivian narrative / Magdalena González Almada -- Literary discourse and representations of violence: spaces and communities in Argentine narrative of the 21st century / Liliana Tozzi -- Three poems = Tres poemas / Jesús J. Barquet.

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume. Highlighting key trends within the discipline, as well as cutting-edge viewpoints that revise and redefine traditional debates and approaches, readers will come away with an understanding of the complexity of twenty-first-century Latin American cultural production and with a renovated and eminently contemporary understanding of twentieth-century literature and culture. This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the fields of Latin American literature, cultural studies, and comparative literature.

In the 1960s, there occurred amongst Latin American writers a sudden explosion of literary activity known as the ‘Boom’. It marked an increase in the production and availability of innovative and experimental novels. But the ‘Boom’ of the 1960s should not be taken as the only flowering of Latin American fiction, for such novels dubbed ‘new novels’ were being written in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as in the 1970s and 1980s. In this edited collection, first published in 1990, Philip Swanson charts the development of Latin American fiction throughout the twentieth century. He assesses the impact of the ‘new novel’ on Latin American literature, and follows its growth. Nine key texts are analysed by contributors, including works by the ‘big four’ of the ‘Boom’ – Fuentes, Cortázar, Garcia Márquez and Vargas Llosa. This book will be of interest to critics and teachers of Latin American literature, and will be useful too as supplementary reading for students of Spanish and Hispanic Studies. It will also serve as a helpful introduction to those new to Latin American fiction.