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In this expertly crafted richly detailed guide Raymond Leslie Williamsexplores the cultural political and historical events that have shaped theLatin American and Caribbean novel since the end of World War II. In additionto works originally composed in English Williams covers novels written inSpanish Portuguese French Dutch and Haitian Creole and traces the profoundinfluence of modernization revolution and democratization on the writing ofthis era.Beginning in 1945 Williams introduces major trends by region including theCaribbean and U.S. Latino novel the Mexican and Central American novel theAndean novel the Southern Cone novel and the novel of Brazil. He discussesthe rise of the modernist novel in the 1940s led by Jorge Luis Borgessreaffirmation of the right of invention and covers the advent of thepostmodern generation of the 1990s in Brazil the Generation of the Crack inMexico and the McOndo generation in other parts of Latin America.An alphabetical guide offers biographies of authors coverage of major topicsand brief introductions to individual novels. It also addresses such areas aswomens writing AfroLatin American writing and magic realism. The guidesfinal section includes an annotated bibliography of introductory studies on theLatin American and Caribbean novel national literary traditions and the workof individual authors. From early attempts to synthesize postcolonial concernswith modernist aesthetics to the current focus on urban violence andglobalization The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945presents a comprehensive accessible portrait of a thoroughly diverse andcomplex branch of world literature. «
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