A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction
With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Ángel Asturias and Gabriel García Márquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature. This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through 'Modernismo', Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism and protest, Spanish American fiction has evolved through successive phases in which both the conceptions of the writer's task and presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations.

DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.

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A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction
With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Ángel Asturias and Gabriel García Márquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature. This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through 'Modernismo', Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism and protest, Spanish American fiction has evolved through successive phases in which both the conceptions of the writer's task and presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations.

DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.

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A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction

A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction

by Donald L Shaw
A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction

A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction

by Donald L Shaw

Overview

With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Ángel Asturias and Gabriel García Márquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature. This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through 'Modernismo', Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism and protest, Spanish American fiction has evolved through successive phases in which both the conceptions of the writer's task and presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations.

DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781855662179
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date: 03/18/2010
Series: ISSN , #189
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Brown Forman Professor of Spanish American Literature, University of Virginia.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1Origins1
Chapter 2Realism, Naturalism and Modernismo19
Chapter 3Indigenism, Regionalism and the Aftermath of Modernismo45
Chapter 4The 1940s, the Pre-Boom. The Changing View of the Writer's Task83
Chapter 5The Boom109
Chapter 6The Boom Continued132
Chapter 7The Post-Boom166
Chapter 8The Post-Boom Continued188
Chapter 9Postmodernism211
Conclusion230
Bibliography233
Index249
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