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Underestimated or unfamiliar Spanish American novels and novelists are introduced through conceptually rigorous essays. Sections on each writer include: It covers all demographic areas, including United States Latino authors, in exploring the diversity of this literature and its major themes, such as exile, migration, and gender representation.
Introduction Mario Bellatin, Francisco J. Andrew Brown, Washington University in St. This book seeks to remedy this situation by providing an in-depth guide to recent outstanding fiction from the Spanish-speaking Western Hemisphere.
In this, The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel fulfills its goals … In addition to the three main editors, a good number of academics make up the team, and the critical overview of the new literature in Spanish of the Americas is overjoying due to its evident richness, intelligence and originality. Perhaps the main usefulness of this project resides in the group of authors studied … When the United States began to be interested in what was being published in the remote Latin America, the authors who were worth reading were not many; today, if we believe the study, they occupy a large room in the universal library.
A very full answer is provided in this invaluable book. The combination of regional overviews by the editors and author essays by a variety of critics, including the editors brings the reader up-to-date, especially the English-only reader.
Most of the novels discussed here have not been translated into English-and the few that have only spottily reviewed-which makes this book a revelation for those of us north of the border interested in new developments in the novel. The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel belongs in all academic libraries. Through its pages we can understand what is new and original, the authors who have arrived and stayed.
A serious and well- thought study. A Portrait of the New India,.
The combination of regional overviews by the editors and author essays by a variety of critics, including the editors brings the reader up-to-date, especially the English-only reader. Most of the novels discussed here have not been translated into English-and the few that have only spottily reviewed-which makes this book a revelation for those of us north of the border interested in new developments in the novel.
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel belongs in all academic libraries. Through its pages we can understand what is new and original, the authors who have arrived and stayed.
A serious and well- thought study. A Portrait of the New India,. The result is a highly readable work that is both informative and stimulating.
Readers of this volume will discover that the Spanish American novel is not only alive and well, but that it is in a process of continual renewal and enrichment. In this respect, the book is an excellent guide for further reading in recent Spanish American fiction.
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