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In this expertly crafted, richly detailed guide, Raymond Leslie Williams explores the cultural, political, and historical events that have shaped the Latin American and Caribbean novel since the end of World War II. In addition to works originally composed in English, Williams covers novels written in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and Haitian Creole, and traces the profound influence of modernization, revolution, and democratization on the writing of this era.Beginning in 1945, Williams introduces major trends by region, including the Caribbean and U.S. Latino novel, the Mexican and Central American novel, the Andean novel, the Southern Cone novel, and the novel of Brazil. He discusses the rise of the modernist novel in the 1940s, led by Jorge Luis Borges's reaffirmation of the right of invention, and covers the advent of the postmodern generation of the 1990s in Brazil, the Generation of the "Crack" in Mexico, and the McOndo generation in other parts of Latin America. An alphabetical guide offers biographies of authors, coverage of major topics, and brief introductions to individual novels. It also addresses such areas as women's writing, Afro-Latin American writing, and magic realism. The guide's final section includes an annotated bibliography of introductory studies on the Latin American and Caribbean novel, national literary traditions, and the work of individual authors. From early attempts to synthesize postcolonial concerns with modernist aesthetics to the current focus on urban violence and globalization, The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945 presents a comprehensive, accessible portrait of a thoroughly diverse and complex branch of world literature.
Latin American fiction --- History and criticism. --- Latin American literature
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 at the age of seventy-four, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has held pivotal roles in the evolution and revolutions of modern Latin American literature. Perhaps surprisingly, no complete history of Vargas Llosa’s works, placed in biographical and historical context, has been published—until now. A masterwork from one of America’s most revered scholars of Latin American fiction, Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life of Writing provides a critical overview of Vargas Llosa’s numerous novels while reinvigorating debates regarding conventional interpretations of the work. Weaving analysis with discussions of the writer’s political commentary, Raymond Leslie Williams traces the author’s youthful identity as a leftist student of the 1960s to a repudiation of some of his earlier ideas beginning in the 1980s. Providing a unique perspective on the complexity, nuance, and scope of Vargas Llosa’s lauded early novels and on his passionate support of indigenous populations in his homeland, Williams then turns his eye to the recent works, which serve as a bridge between the legacies of the Boom and the diverse array of contemporary Latin American fiction writers at work today. In addition, Williams provides a detailed description of Vargas Llosa’s traumatic childhood and its impact on him—seen particularly in his lifelong disdain for authority figures—as well as of the authors who influenced his approach, from Faulkner to Flaubert. Culminating in reflections drawn from Williams’s formal interviews and casual conversations with the author at key phases of both men’s careers, this is a landmark publication that will spark new lines of inquiry into an intricate body of work.
Vargas Llosa, Mario, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Vargas Llosa, Mario. --- Vargas, Mario --- Llosa, Mario Vargas --- Vargas Llosa, M. --- Llosa, M. Vargas --- Varguitas --- Vargas Lʹosa, Mario --- Lʹosa, Mario Vargas --- Вагас ЛЬоса, Марио --- Варгас Льоса, Марио --- ורגס יוסה, מאריו, --- ורגס יוסה, מריו, --- יוסה, מריו ורגס, --- يوسا,ماريو فارغاس, --- Vargas Llosa, Mario --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
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Smitten by the modernity of Cervantes and Borges at an early age, Carlos Fuentes has written extensively on the cultures of the Americas and elsewhere. His work includes over a dozen novels, among them The Death of Artemio Cruz, Christopher Unborn, The Old Gringo, and Terra Nostra, several volumes of short stories, numerous essays on literary, cultural, and political topics, and some theater. In this book, Raymond Leslie Williams traces the themes of history, culture, and identity in Fuentes' work, particularly in his complex, major novel Terra Nostra. He opens with a biography of Fuentes that links his works to his intellectual life. The heart of the study is Williams' extensive reading of the novel Terra Nostra, in which Fuentes explores the presence of Spanish culture and history in Latin America. Williams concludes with a look at how Fuentes' other fiction relates to Terra Nostra, including Fuentes' own division of his work into fourteen cycles that he calls "La Edad del Tiempo," and with an interview in which Fuentes discusses his concept of this cyclical division.
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This book offers discussion and analysis of the subtle writing of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez - a traditionalist who draws from classic Western texts, a Modernist committed to modernizing the conservative literary tradition in Colombia and Latin America, an internationally recognized major writer of the 1960s Boom, the key figure in popularizing what has been called "magic realism" and, finally, a Modernist who has occasionally engaged in some of the strategies of the postmodern. The author demonstrates that García Márquez is above all a committed and highly accomplished Modernist fiction writer who has successfully synthesized his political vision in his writing and absorbed a vast array of cultural and literary traditions. Drawing on García Márquez's interviews with Williams and others over the years, the book also explores the importance of the non-literary, the presence of oral tradition and the visual arts, thus providing a more complete insight into García Márquez's strategies as a Modernist with heterogeneous aesthetic interests, as well as an understanding of his social and political preoccupations.
Latin American literature --- Nobel Prize winners. --- History and criticism --- García Márquez, Gabriel, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Laureates, Nobel --- Nobel laureates --- Nobelists --- Winners of Nobel Prizes --- Award winners --- García Márquez, Gabriel --- Chia-hsi-ya Ma-erh-kʻo-ssu, --- Chia-hsi-ya, Ma-erh-kʻo-ssu, --- Chia-hsi-ya Ma-erh-kʻo-ssu, Chia-fu-lieh-erh, --- Gacxia Mackết, Gabriel, --- García Márquez, G. --- Garsia Markes, G. --- Garsia Markes, Gabriėlʹ, --- Gkarthia Markes, Gkampriel, --- Ma-erh-kʻo-ssu, Chia-hsi-ya, --- Mackêt, G. G., --- Markes, Gabriėlʹ Garsia, --- Marḳes, Gavriʼel Garsiyah, --- Márquez, Gabriel García, --- Garsija Markez, Gabriel, --- Гарсия Маркес, Габриэль, --- Гарсија Маркез, Габриел, --- גארסיה מארקס, גבריאל --- גרסיה מארקס, גבריאל, --- غارسيّا ماركيز، غابرييل، --- گارسيا ماركز، گابريل --- ガルシヤマルケスガブリエル, --- ガルシアマルケス, --- Gabo, --- History and criticism. --- Gabriel García Márquez. --- Latin American writers. --- Modernist. --- cultural. --- literary traditions. --- magic realism. --- oral tradition. --- political preoccupations. --- political vision. --- social. --- twentieth century. --- visual arts.
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