Origins; realism, naturalism and "modernismo"; indigenism, regionalism and the aftermath of "modernismo"; the 1940s, the pre-boom - the changing view of the writer's task; the boom; the boom continued; the post-boom; the post-boom continued; postmodernism.
Brown Forman Professor of Spanish American Literature, University of Virginia.
A comprehensive and erudite survey of the field... In the two
chapters devoted to [the Boom] we are treated to excellent,
insightful readings... A valuable work of reference.
*TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT*
An ambitious book of exceptional significance.... Delivers more
than its title may promise. On the one hand, true to its
encyclopaedic form, the Companion meets the challenge of painting a
sweeping panorama of two centuries of Spanish American narrative...
On the other hand, Shaw's opus succeeds, almost miraculously, in
transcending its monumental format by avoiding
over-generalisation... Shaw never fails to provide his readers with
a map and compass as he guides them through the forking paths of
contemporary Spanish American narrative.
*MLR*
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