Table of Contents

• Preface
• Part I: The Literary Tradition and Modern Science, 1900-1921
  • Chapter 1. Novelistic and Cultural Contexts at the Turn of the Century
  • Chapter 2. Rereading Spanish American Classics
• Part II: Traditional and Modernist Aesthetics, 1922-1940
  • Chapter 3. Novelistic and Cultural Contexts in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Chapter 4. Rereading Spanish American Criollista Classics
  • Chapter 5. Rereading Novels of Vanguardia
• Part III: The Rise of the Modernist Novel, 1941-1961
  • Chapter 6. Novelistic and Cultural Contexts of Latin American Modernism
  • Chapter 7. Rereading Spanish American Modernist Novels
• Part IV: Modern and Cosmopolitan Works, 1962-1967
  • Chapter 8. Novels and Contexts of the Boom and Beyond
  • Chapter 9. Rereading Novels of the Boom
  • Chapter 10. Rereading the Spanish American Novel beyond the Boom
• Part V: Toward a Postboom, Feminist, and Postmodern Novel, 1968-1999
  • Chapter 11. Novelistic and Cultural Contexts in the 1970s and 1980s
  • Chapter 12. Rereading the Spanish American Novel of the 1970s and 1980s
  • Chapter 13. Modern, Postmodern, and Transnational: The Latin American Novel in the 1990s
• Notes
• Bibliography

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Offers the first complete analytical and critical overview of the Spanish American novel throughout the entire twentieth century

About the Author

Raymond Leslie Williams is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Riverside. His previous publications include The Writings of Carlos Fuentes, The Postmodern Novel in Latin America, and The Colombian Novel, 1844–1987.

Reviews

"a very useful overview of the Spanish American novel, and for literature courses requiring one book to cover the century this text should serve well." British Bulletin of Publications on Latin American, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain "Williams is among the very few scholars who are capable of producing such a sweeping perspective... This study will be useful to specialized and non-specialized readers alike. For the latter, it provides a full grasp of the literary production coming out of Latin America during the entire twentieth century". Dick Gerdes, Professor of Spanish and Chair of Foreign Languages, University of Las Vegas