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Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction by Naomi Lindstrom is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction about?
Spanish American fiction became a world phenomenon in the twentieth century through multilanguage translations of such novels as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude , Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman , Octavio Paz's Labyrinth of Solitude, and Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits . Yet these "blockbusters" are only a tiny fraction of the total, rich outpouring of Spanish-language literature from Latin America. In this book, Naomi Lindstrom offers English-language readers a comprehensive survey of the century's literary production in Latin America (excluding Brazil). Discussing movements and trends, she places the famous masterworks in historical perspective and highlights authors and works that deserve a wider readership. Her study begins with Rodó's famous essay Ariel and ends with Rigoberta Menchú's 1992 achievement of the Nobel Prize. Her selection of works is designed to draw attention, whenever possible, to works that are available in good English translations. A special feature of the book is its treatment of the "postboom" period. In this important concluding section, Lindstrom discusses documentary narratives, the new interrelations between p
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Naomi Lindstrom
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780292735217
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Fiction
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