Historical dictionary of Latin American literature and theater / Richard Young, Odile Cisneros.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Richard A., 1942-

Contributor:

Cisneros, Odile.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts ; no. 45.

Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts ; no. 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Latin American--Biography--Dictionaries.

Authors, Latin American.

Latin American literature--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries.

Latin American literature.

Latin American literature--Dictionaries.

Theater--Latin America--Dictionaries.

Theater.

Latin America.

Genre:

Bio-bibliography.

Biographies.

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (749 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2011.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela). Entries for authors, from the early colonial period to the present, give succinct biographical data and an account of the author's literary production, with particular attention to their most prominent work

Contents:

Contents; Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Reader's Note; Chronology; Introduction; The Dictionary; Bibliography; About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-42153-5

979-82-16-23932-1

1-282-92228-9

9786612922282

0-8108-7498-9

OCLC:

700464012