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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521825334
ISBN-13
9780521825337
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43747455

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
360 Pages
Publication Name
Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel
Language
English
Subject
Caribbean & Latin American
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Author
Efraín Kristal
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Series
Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
24.5 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2005-541467
Reviews
'No corner of the continent remains untouched in the Cambridge Companion…This much needed book also illuminates the literary contribution to the Spanish-speaking nations of the western hemisphere and Portuguese-speaking Brazil, while offering a broad overview of the novel's history and a sense of its heterogeneity." -- Times Literary Supplement, 'No corner of the continent remains untouched in the Cambridge Companion?This much needed book also illuminates the literary contribution to the Spanish-speaking nations of the western hemisphere and Portuguese-speaking Brazil, while offering a broad overview of the novel's history and a sense of its heterogeneity." -- Times Literary Supplement, 'No corner of the continent remains untouched in the Cambridge Companion. … This much-needed book … illuminates the literary contribution to the Spanish-speaking nations of the western hemisphere and Portuguese-speaking Brazil, while offering a broad overview of the novel's history and a sense of its heterogeneity.' Times Literary Supplement, 'No corner of the continent remains untouched in the Cambridge Companion. ... This much-needed book ... illuminates the literary contribution to the Spanish-speaking nations of the western hemisphere and Portuguese-speaking Brazil, while offering a broad overview of the novel's history and a sense of its heterogeneity.' Times Literary Supplement, 'No corner of the continent remains untouched in the Cambridge Companion...This much needed book also illuminates the literary contribution to the Spanish-speaking nations of the western hemisphere and Portuguese-speaking Brazil, while offering a broad overview of the novel's history and a sense of its heterogeneity." -- Times Literary Supplement
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
863.009/98
Table Of Content
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.
Synopsis
The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often overlooked. Indispensable to students of Latin American or Hispanic studies and those interested in comparative literature and the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation., 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., Novels from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Latin America are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyzes in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. Indispensable to students of Latin American studies, of comparative literature and of the development of the novel as genre, the book features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.
LC Classification Number
PQ7081 .L37 2005

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