Early Spanish American narrative / by Naomi Lindstrom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindstrom, Naomi, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American fiction--History and criticism.

Spanish American fiction.

Literature and history--Latin America.

Literature and history.

National characteristics, Latin American, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The world discovered Latin American literature in the twentieth century, but the roots of this rich literary tradition reach back beyond Columbus's discovery of the New World. The great pre-Hispanic civilizations composed narrative accounts of the acts of gods and kings. Conquistadors and friars, as well as their Amerindian subjects, recorded the clash of cultures that followed the Spanish conquest. Three hundred years of colonization and the struggle for independence gave rise to a diverse body of literature—including the novel, which flourished in the second half of the nineteenth century. To give everyone interested in contemporary Spanish American fiction a broad understanding of its literary antecedents, this book offers an authoritative survey of four centuries of Spanish American narrative. Naomi Lindstrom begins with Amerindian narratives and moves forward chronologically through the conquest and colonial eras, the wars for independence, and the nineteenth century. She focuses on the trends and movements that characterized the development of prose narrative in Spanish America, with incisive discussions of representative works from each era. Her inclusion of women and Amerindian authors who have been downplayed in other survey works, as well as her overview of recent critical assessments of early Spanish American narratives, makes this book especially useful for college students and professors.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction and Background

Chapter 1. Narrative accounts of the encounter and conquest

Chapter 2. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: literary life in the colonies

Chapter 3. The struggle for nationhood and the rise of fiction

Chapter 4. The mid-nineteenth century: romanticism, realism, and nationalism

Chapter 5. Late-nineteenth-century narratives of social commentary and national self-reflection

Chapter 6. Naturalism and MODERNISMO

Conclusion: Then and now

Notes

Selected bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-231) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79745-1

OCLC:

560333508