A history of Colombian literature / Raymond Leslie Williams [editor].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Raymond L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colombian literature--History and criticism.

Colombian literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 513 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Contents:

Literature and society in Colombia. Michael Palencia-Roth: Colonial realities and colonial literature in Colombia

Elizabeth Pettinaroli: Cosmography, ethnography, and the literary imagination of the new kingdom of Granada

James Alstrum: Colombian poetry from the colonial period to modernismo (1500-1920)

Kevin Guerrieri: Reflections on the historiography of the Colombian novel, 1844-2013: 1953 and beyond

James Alstrum: Modern Colombian poetry: from modernism to the twenty-first century

Raymond l. Williams and Marina Jera: The Colombian novel in late twentieth century (1970-1999)

Claire Taylor and Raymond l. Williams: Twenty-first century fiction

Lucia Garavito: Colombian theater: staging the sociopolitical body

Hector Hoyos: The Colombian essay

Colombian culture and society in regional contexts. Rory Bryen: Literature, culture and society of the Magdalena Rivera

Juan Carlos Gonzalez: Lez espitia, the highland region as seen by an outsider inside and an insider outside: Mercedes Lopez Rodriguez: Racial fictions: constructing whiteness in nineteenth-century Colombian literature

Juan Luis Mejaxeda: Literature and culture in Antioquia: between stories and accounts

Valentín González-Bohórquez and Diana Dodson-Lee: Colombian marginalized literatures

Beyond the boundaries. Gene Bell-Villada: Garcia Marquez as public intellectual

Claire Taylor: Women writers in Colombia

Gina Ponce de Leon: Colombian queer narrative

Mark Anderson and Marcela Reales: Extracting nature: toward an ecology of Colombian narrative

Ana María Mutis and Elizabeth Pettinaroli: Visions of nature: Colombian literature and the environment from the colonial period to the nineteenth century

Enrique Salas-Durazo: The intersections between poetry and fiction in two Colombian writers of the twentieth century: Alvaro Mutis and Darío Jaramillo Agudelo: Colombian literature: national treasure or fraud?

Elzbieta Sklodowska: Colonial legacies and Colombian literature: postcolonial considerations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107081352

1107081351

OCLC:

920816406