With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel ngel Asturias and Gabriel García Márquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature.This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through Modernismo, Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism and protest, Spanish American fiction has evolved through successive phases in which both the conceptions of the writer's task and presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations.
DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.
- ISBN10 1855660784
- ISBN13 9781855660786
- Publish Date 1 March 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 April 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Imprint Tamesis Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 264
- Language English