Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction
Title | Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi Lindstrom |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel
Title | The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Leslie Williams |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2005-03-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780292706705 |
Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century. Indeed, the desire to be "modern" is a constant preoccupation in twentieth-century Spanish American literature and thus a very useful lens through which to view the century's novels. In this pathfinding study, Raymond L. Williams offers the first complete analytical and critical overview of the Spanish American novel throughout the entire twentieth century. Using the desire to be modern as his organizing principle, he divides the century's novels into five periods and discusses the differing forms that "the modern" took in each era. For each period, Williams begins with a broad overview of many novels, literary contexts, and some cultural debates, followed by new readings of both canonical and significant non-canonical novels. A special feature of this book is its emphasis on women writers and other previously ignored and/or marginalized authors, including experimental and gay writers. Williams also clarifies the legacy of the Boom, the Postboom, and the Postmodern as he introduces new writers and new novelistic trends of the 1990s.
Structures of Power
Title | Structures of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Terry J. Peavler |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1996-02-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780791428405 |
Explores the many faces of power as revealed in twentieth-century Spanish-American fiction.
The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
Title | The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Ilan Stavans |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 769 |
Release | 2012-03-27 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0374533180 |
Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.
Structures of Desire
Title | Structures of Desire PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Williams |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2000-08-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780791446447 |
Examines the cultural, historical, and ideological factors influencing British cinema during World War II and the postwar years, with attention to male-female relationships as well as to utopian desires for a better postwar world.
The Post-boom in Spanish American Fiction
Title | The Post-boom in Spanish American Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Donald L. Shaw |
Publisher | |
Pages | 125 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Social history in literature |
ISBN |
The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel
Title | The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Leslie Williams |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2009-07-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0292774028 |
A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century. Indeed, the desire to be "modern" is a constant preoccupation in twentieth-century Spanish American literature and thus a very useful lens through which to view the century's novels. In this pathfinding study, Raymond L. Williams offers the first complete analytical and critical overview of the Spanish American novel throughout the entire twentieth century. Using the desire to be modern as his organizing principle, he divides the century's novels into five periods and discusses the differing forms that "the modern" took in each era. For each period, Williams begins with a broad overview of many novels, literary contexts, and some cultural debates, followed by new readings of both canonical and significant non-canonical novels. A special feature of this book is its emphasis on women writers and other previously ignored and/or marginalized authors, including experimental and gay writers. Williams also clarifies the legacy of the Boom, the Postboom, and the Postmodern as he introduces new writers and new novelistic trends of the 1990s.