The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature, Volume 2: The Twentieth Century

The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature #2

by Roberto González Echevarría (Editor), Enrique Pupo-Walker (Editor)

Volume 2 provides coverage of all genres from the end of the nineteenth century up to García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and beyond to 1990, thus including discussion of Spanish American literature's best-known works. The novel, poetry, autobiographical narrative, the short story, Afro-Hispanic American literature, theater, and Chicano literature are among the areas treated in this wide-ranging volume.

639 pages, Hardcover

First published September 13, 1996

About the author

Roberto González Echevarría is Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale.