ABSTRACT

A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book

chapter |172 pages

A

entry |4 pages

Soledad Acosta De Samper 1833–1913

entry |4 pages

Martín Adán 1908–1985

entry |5 pages

Jorge Enrique Adoum 1926

entry |4 pages

Entre Marx Y Una Mujer Desnuda: Texto Con Personajes

entry |4 pages

African-American Literature

entry |4 pages

African-Brazilian Literature

entry |4 pages

African-Caribbean Literature

entry |6 pages

Demetrio Aguilera Malta 1909–1981

entry |4 pages

José Agustín 1944–

entry |2 pages

Delmira Agustini 1886–1914

entry |2 pages

Íntima

entry |2 pages

Otra Estirpe

entry |5 pages

Claribel Alegría 1924

entry |5 pages

José De Alencar 1829–1877

entry |4 pages

Jacques-Stéphen Alexis 1922–1961(?)

entry |4 pages

José Américo De Almeida 1887–1980

entry |5 pages

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

entry |5 pages

Jorge Amado 1912–

entry |5 pages

America

entry |4 pages

Enrique Amorim 1900–1960

entry |4 pages

Carlos Drummond De Andrade 1902–1987

entry |3 pages

A Rosa Do Povo

entry |6 pages

Mário De Andrade

entry |4 pages

Oswald De Andrade 1890–1954

entry |2 pages

Manifesto Antropófago

entry |3 pages

José Pereira Da Graça Aranha

entry |5 pages

Reinaldo Arenas 1943–1990

entry |5 pages

Arturo, La Estrella Más Brillante

entry |3 pages

Rafael Arévalo Martínez 1884–1975

entry |12 pages

Argentina

entry |11 pages

20th-Century Prose and Poetry

entry |4 pages

Jose Maria 1Arguedas 1911–1969

entry |4 pages

Los Ríos Profundos

entry |5 pages

Manlio Argueta 1935–

entry |5 pages

Roberto Arlt 1900–1942

entry |1 pages

El juguete Rabioso

entry |3 pages

Aguafuertes Porteñas

entry |5 pages

Juan José Arreola 1918–

entry |7 pages

Miguel Ángel Asturias 1899–1974

entry |5 pages

El Señor Presidente

entry |4 pages

Autobiography

entry |3 pages

Avant-Garde

entry |6 pages

Aymara Literature

entry |5 pages

Aluísio Azevedo 1857–1913

entry |5 pages

Mariano Azuela 1873–1952

entry |4 pages

Los De Abajo

chapter |113 pages

B

entry |3 pages

Emilio Ballagas 1908–1954

entry |4 pages

Manuel Bandeira 1886–1968

entry |4 pages

Miguel Barnet 1940

entry |4 pages

Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto 1881–1922,

entry |5 pages

Rafael Barrett 1876–1910

entry |2 pages

Lo Que Son Los Yerbales

entry |6 pages

Eduardo Barrios 1884–1963

entry |4 pages

Carlos Germán Belli 1927–

entry |4 pages

En Bética no Bella

entry |4 pages

Gioconda Belli 1948–

entry |5 pages

Andrés Bello 1781–1865

entry |7 pages

Mario Benedetti 1920–

entry |2 pages

Best-Sellers

entry |5 pages

Isabel Allende 1942–

entry |4 pages

Laura Esquivel 1950–

entry |4 pages

Olavo Bilac 1865–1918

entry |2 pages

Bildungsroman

entry |6 pages

Adolfo Bioy Casares 1914

entry |5 pages

Augusto Boal 1931–

entry |8 pages

Bolivia

entry |6 pages

María Luisa Bombal 1910–1980

entry |3 pages

The Boom

entry |8 pages

Jorge Luis Borges 1899–1986

entry |2 pages

Nueva Refutación Del Tiempo

entry |3 pages

El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan

entry |9 pages

Brazil

entry |9 pages

20th-Century Prose and Poetry

entry |4 pages

Alfredo Bryce Echenique 1939–

entry |3 pages

Un Mundo Para Julius

entry |3 pages

Fanny Buitrago 1940–

chapter |174 pages

C

entry |1 pages

Cabral de Melo Neto, João

entry |5 pages

Lydia Cabrera 1900–1991

entry |6 pages

Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1929–

entry |3 pages

Caliban

entry |3 pages

Eugenio Cambaceres 1843–1889

entry |5 pages

Nellie Campobello 1913–

entry |3 pages

Canon

entry |6 pages

Ernesto Cardenal 1925–

entry |6 pages

Cántico Cósmico

entry |6 pages

Alejo Carpentier 1904–1980

entry |4 pages

El Reino De Este Mundo

entry |3 pages

El Siglo De Las Luces

entry |3 pages

Tomás Carrasquilla 1858–1940

entry |4 pages

Jorge Carrera Andrade 1903–1976

entry |3 pages

Cada Objeto Es Un Mundo

entry |3 pages

Miguel De Carrión 1875–1929

entry |3 pages

Julián Del Casal 1863–1893

entry |5 pages

Rosario Castellanos 1925–1974

entry |4 pages

Antônio De Castro Alves 1847–1871

entry |3 pages

Caudillismo and Dictatorship

entry |3 pages

Aimé Césaire 1913-

entry |3 pages

Une Tempête

entry |7 pages

Chicano Literature

entry |4 pages

Children's Literature

entry |14 pages

Chile

entry |4 pages

Antonio Cisneros 1942–

entry |5 pages

Civilization and Barbarism

entry |7 pages

Colombia

entry |5 pages

Colonial Literature

entry |7 pages

Colonial Literature

entry |7 pages

Colonial Literature

entry |4 pages

Concrete Poetry

entry |5 pages

Maryse Condé 1934–

entry |4 pages

Conventual Writing

entry |7 pages

Julio Cortázar 1914–1984

entry |4 pages

Rayuela

entry |8 pages

Costa Rica

entry |4 pages

José De La Cuadra 1903–1941

entry |13 pages

Cuba

entry |5 pages

Cuban Writing in the United States

entry |4 pages

Cultural Dependency

chapter |55 pages

D

entry |5 pages

Roque Dalton 1935–1975

entry |4 pages

Poems

entry |5 pages

Rubén Darío 1867–1916

entry |4 pages

Nocturno XXXII

entry |4 pages

René Depestre 1926–

entry |4 pages

Detective Fiction

entry |5 pages

Augusto D'Halmar 1882(?)–1950

entry |5 pages

Eliseo Diego 1920–1994

entry |9 pages

Dominican Republic

entry |5 pages

José Donoso 1924–1996

entry |3 pages

Casa De Campo

entry |5 pages

Ariel Dorfman 1942–

entry |3 pages

Autran Dourado 1926–

entry |5 pages

Oswald Durand 1840–1906

chapter |39 pages

E

entry |5 pages

Esteban Echeverría 1805–1851

entry |7 pages

Ecuador

entry |5 pages

Jorge Edwards 1931-

entry |4 pages

José María Eguren 1874–1942

entry |10 pages

El Salvador

entry |3 pages

Salvador Elizondo 1932–

entry |4 pages

Diamela Eltit 1949–

entry |3 pages

Erotic and Homoerotic Writing

entry |5 pages

The Essay

chapter |67 pages

F

entry |1 pages

Fagundes Telles, Lygia

entry |6 pages

Feminism

entry |4 pages

Feminist Literary Theory

entry |3 pages

Macedonio Fernández 1874–1952

entry |5 pages

José Joaquín Fernández De Lizardi 1776–1827

entry |6 pages

Rosario Ferré 1942–

entry |3 pages

Adonias Filho 1915–1990

entry |3 pages

Film

entry |6 pages

Spanish America

entry |4 pages

Rubem Fonseca 1925–

entry |4 pages

Foundational Literature

entry |7 pages

Francophone West Indies

entry |6 pages

Gilberto Freyre 1900–1987

entry |3 pages

Casa Grande E Senzala

entry |7 pages

Carlos Fuentes 1928–

entry |3 pages

Agua Quemada

entry |4 pages

Aura

entry |3 pages

La Muerte De Artemio Cruz

chapter |144 pages

G

entry |6 pages

Eduardo Galeano 1940–

entry |4 pages

Rómulo Gallegos 1884–1969

entry |3 pages

Doña Barbara

entry |5 pages

Manuel Gálvez 1882–1962

entry |5 pages

Griselda Gambaro 1928–

entry |3 pages

Ventura García Calderón 1886–1959

entry |7 pages

Gabriel García Márquez 1928(?)–

entry |3 pages

El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Cólera

entry |5 pages

Cien Años De Soledad

entry |3 pages

El General En Su Laberinto

entry |5 pages

Fina García Marruz 1923–

entry |4 pages

Juan García Ponce 1932–

entry |4 pages

El Inca Garcilaso De La Vega 1539–1616

entry |4 pages

Comentarios Reales De Los Incas

entry |4 pages

Elena Garro 1920–

entry |5 pages

Juan Gelman 1930–

entry |4 pages

Asomos

entry |4 pages

Mempo Giardinelli 1947–

entry |3 pages

Oliverio Girondo 1891–1967

entry |3 pages

Alberto Girri 1919–1991

entry |4 pages

Margo Glantz 1930–

entry |4 pages

Edouard Glissant 1928–

entry |5 pages

Gertrudis Gómez De Avellaneda 1814–1873

entry |4 pages

Antônio Gonçalves Dias 1823–1864

entry |3 pages

Manuel González Prada 1844–1918

entry |3 pages

José Gorostiza 1901–1979

entry |4 pages

Juana Manuela Gorriti 1818–1892

entry |3 pages

Felipe Guaman Poma De Ayala Died C.1615

entry |9 pages

Guatemala

entry |4 pages

Guerrilla Poetry

entry |6 pages

Nicolás Guillén 1902–1989

entry |3 pages

Sóngoro Cosongo

entry |4 pages

Bernardo Guimarães 1825–1884

entry |4 pages

A Escrava Isaura

entry |5 pages

João Guimarães Rosa 1908–1967

entry |4 pages

Grande Sertão: Veredas

entry |5 pages

Ricardo Güiraldes 1886–1927

entry |4 pages

Don Segundo Sombra

entry |5 pages

Ferreira Gullar 1930–

entry |5 pages

Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera 1859–1895

entry |4 pages

Martin Luis Guzmán 1887–1976

chapter |31 pages

H

entry |5 pages

Felisberto Hernández 1902–1964

entry |3 pages

José Hernández 1834–1886

entry |4 pages

Martin Fierro

entry |3 pages

Julio Herrera y Reissig 1875–1910

entry |6 pages

Fernand Hibbert 1873–1928

entry |3 pages

The Historical Novel

entry |7 pages

Honduras

entry |5 pages

Vicente Huidobro 1893–1948

chapter |24 pages

I

entry |3 pages

Juana De Ibarbourou 1892–1979

entry |5 pages

Jorge Ibargüengoitia 1928–1983

entry |4 pages

Jorge Icaza 1906–1978

entry |4 pages

Identity

entry |4 pages

Indianism

entry |3 pages

Spanish America

entry |2 pages

Indigenism

entry |5 pages

Jorge Isaacs 1837–1895

chapter |36 pages

J

entry |4 pages

Ricardo Jaimes Freyre 1868–1933

entry |4 pages

Jewish Writing

entry |4 pages

South America

entry |1 pages

Journals

entry |2 pages

Marcha (1939–1973)

entry |2 pages

Mundo Nuevo (1966–1971)

entry |2 pages

Orígenes (1944–1956)

entry |1 pages

Plural (1971–1976)

entry |2 pages

Punto de Vista (1978–)

entry |2 pages

La Revue Du Monde Noir (1931–1932)

entry |2 pages

Sur (1931–1970)

entry |2 pages

Tropiques (1941–1945)

entry |2 pages

Vuelta (1976-)

entry |6 pages

Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz 1651(?)-1695

entry |4 pages

Divino Narciso

entry |5 pages

Primero Sueño

entry |4 pages

Respuesta a Sor Filotea

chapter |68 pages

L

entry |3 pages

Land and Literature

entry |5 pages

Norah Lange 1906–1972

entry |4 pages

Enrique Larreta 1873–1961

entry |5 pages

José Lezama Lima 1910–1976

entry |4 pages

Justin Lhérisson 1873–1907

entry |6 pages

Libraries

entry |4 pages

Information Technology

entry |2 pages

Electronic Mail

entry |5 pages

Enrique Lihn 1929–1988

entry |5 pages

Baldomero Lillo 1867–1923

entry |5 pages

Clarice Lispector 1920–1977

entry |3 pages

A Hora Da Estrela

entry |5 pages

Literacy Campaigns

entry |3 pages

Cuba and Nicaragua

entry |4 pages

Literary Theory

entry |3 pages

Enrique López Albújar 1872–1966

entry |5 pages

Ramón López Velarde 1888–1921

entry |2 pages

Carlos Loveira 1882–1928

entry |4 pages

Dulce María Loynaz 1902–

entry |5 pages

Leopoldo Lugones 1874–1938

chapter |136 pages

M

entry |4 pages

Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis 1839–1908

entry |2 pages

Dom Casmurro

entry |3 pages

Magical Realism

entry |5 pages

Eduardo Mallea 1903–1982

entry |5 pages

Leopoldo Marechal 1900–1970

entry |3 pages

Marianism

entry |4 pages

José Carlos Mariátegui 1894–1930

entry |4 pages

José Mármol 1817–1871

entry |4 pages

René Marqués 1919–1979

entry |6 pages

José Martí 1853–1895

entry |4 pages

Nuestra America

entry |5 pages

Versos Sencillos

entry |5 pages

Ezequiel Martínez Estrada 1895–1964

entry |5 pages

Carlos Martínez Moreno 1917–1986

entry |4 pages

Marxism and Culture in Spanish America

entry |5 pages

Clorinda Matto De Turner 1852–1909

entry |4 pages

Mayan Literature

entry |4 pages

Cecilia Meireles 1901–1964

entry |3 pages

João Cabral De Melo Neto 1920–

entry |4 pages

Murilo Mendes 1901–1975

entry |4 pages

Juan León Mera 1832–1894

entry |3 pages

Mestizo

entry |4 pages

Metafiction

entry |9 pages

Mexico

entry |13 pages

20th-Century Prose and Poetry

entry |7 pages

Gabriela Mistral 1889–1957

entry |4 pages

Modernismo

entry |4 pages

Modernismo

entry |4 pages

Augusto Monterroso 1921–

entry |4 pages

Vinícius De Moraes 1913–1980

entry |5 pages

Nancy Morejón 1944–

entry |3 pages

Felix Morisseau-Leroy 1912–

entry |3 pages

César Moro 1903–1956

entry |3 pages

Mulatto

entry |3 pages

Álvaro Mutis 1923-

entry |3 pages

Mysticism

entry |5 pages

Myth

chapter |29 pages

N

entry |4 pages

Náhuatl Literature

entry |5 pages

Nationalism in Spanish America

entry |3 pages

Négritude

entry |7 pages

Pablo Neruda 1904–1973

entry |4 pages

Alturas De Macchu Picchu

entry |8 pages

Nicaragua

entry |3 pages

Rafael Núñez 1825–1894

chapter |30 pages

O

entry |4 pages

Silvina Ocampo 1903(?)–1993

entry |4 pages

Victoria Ocampo 1890–1979

entry |5 pages

Juan Carlos Onetti 1909–1994

entry |4 pages

El Astillero

entry |4 pages

Orality

entry |1 pages

Orígines

entry |3 pages

Olga Orozco 1920–

entry |4 pages

Fernando Ortiz 1881–1969

entry |5 pages

Juan L.Ortiz 1896–1978

entry |1 pages

Oswald De Sousa Andrade, José

entry |3 pages

Miguel Otero Silva 1908–1985

chapter |150 pages

P

entry |5 pages

José Emilio Pacheco 1939–

entry |3 pages

Ricardo Palma 1833–1919

entry |8 pages

Panama

entry |11 pages

Paraguay

entry |4 pages

Para-Literature

entry |4 pages

Paris

entry |5 pages

Nicanor Parra 1914–

entry |4 pages

Teresa de la Parra 1889–1936

entry |2 pages

Las Memorias De Mamá Blanca

entry |3 pages

Violeta Parra 1917–1967

entry |2 pages

Las Décimas

entry |4 pages

Fernando del Paso 1935–

entry |6 pages

Octavio Paz 1914–

entry |5 pages

Essays

entry |5 pages

El Laberinto De La Soledad

entry |5 pages

Cristina Peri Rossi 1941–

entry |10 pages

Peru

entry |5 pages

Ricardo Piglia 1941–

entry |4 pages

Virgilio Piñera 1912–1979

entry |3 pages

Nélida Piñón 1935–

entry |4 pages

Sergio Pitol 1933–

entry |3 pages

Alejandra Pizarnik 1936–1972

entry |1 pages

Plural

entry |5 pages

Punto De Vista

entry |4 pages

Hasta No Verte Jesús Mío

entry |3 pages

Popular Culture

entry |4 pages

Spanish America

entry |3 pages

Pornography

entry |3 pages

Positivism

entry |4 pages

Abel Posse 1936–

entry |3 pages

The Post-Boom

entry |5 pages

Postmodern Writing

entry |3 pages

Jean Price-Mars 1876–1968

entry |3 pages

Prison Writing

entry |3 pages

Prizes

entry |4 pages

Protest Literature

entry |10 pages

Puerto Rico

entry |5 pages

Puerto Rican Writing in the United States

entry |6 pages

Manuel Puig 1932–1990

entry |3 pages

El Beso De La Mujer Araña

chapter |14 pages

Q

entry |4 pages

Quechua Literature

entry |4 pages

Rachel De Queiroz 1910–

entry |5 pages

Horacio Quiroga 1878–1937

entry |3 pages

Selection of Short Stories

chapter |64 pages

R

entry |4 pages

Graciliano Ramos 1892–1953

entry |3 pages

Regionalism

entry |4 pages

Spanish America

entry |5 pages

José Lins Do Rego 1901–1957

entry |4 pages

Resistance Literature in Spanish America

entry |1 pages

La Revue Du Monde Noir

entry |7 pages

Alfonso Reyes 1889–1959

entry |4 pages

João Ubaldo Ribeiro 1941–

entry |4 pages

José Eustasio Rivera 1888–1928

entry |5 pages

Augusto Roa Bastos 1917–

entry |3 pages

Yo El Supremo

entry |4 pages

José Enrique Rodó 1871–1917

entry |4 pages

Ariel

entry |4 pages

Gonzalo Rojas 1917–

entry |4 pages

Manuel Rojas 1896–1973

entry |5 pages

Romanticism

entry |4 pages

Sílvio Romero 1851–1914

entry |1 pages

Rosa, João Guimarães

entry |4 pages

Jacques Roumain 1907–1944

entry |4 pages

Juan Rulfo 1918–1986

entry |4 pages

Pedro Páramo

chapter |73 pages

S

entry |5 pages

Ernesto Sábato 1911–

entry |4 pages

Abaddón, El Exterminador

entry |3 pages

El Túnel

entry |4 pages

Juan José Saer 1937–

entry |4 pages

Gustavo Sainz 1940–

entry |4 pages

Salarrué 1899–1975

entry |4 pages

Sebastián Salazar Bondy 1924–1964

entry |6 pages

Luis Rafael Sánchez 1936–

entry |3 pages

La Guaracha Del Macho Camacho

entry |5 pages

Severo Sarduy 1937–1993

entry |4 pages

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento 1811–1888

entry |3 pages

Simone Schwarz-Bart 1938–

entry |3 pages

Science in Spanish American Literature

entry |4 pages

Science Fiction

entry |4 pages

Manuel Scorza 1928–1983

entry |4 pages

José Asuncion Silva 1865–1896

entry |1 pages

Silva, Bernardo Guimarães De

entry |4 pages

Antonio Skármeta 1940–

entry |3 pages

Ardiente paciencia

entry |4 pages

Carlos Solórzano 1922–

entry |4 pages

Osvaldo Soriano 1943–

entry |3 pages

Sousândrade 1833–1902

entry |4 pages

Alfonsina Storni 1892–1938

entry |1 pages

Sur

entry |3 pages

Surrealism

chapter |57 pages

T

entry |5 pages

José Juan Tablada 1871–1945

entry |5 pages

Néstor Taboada Terán 1929–

entry |5 pages

Lygia Fagundes Telles 1923–

entry |4 pages

Testimonial Writing

entry |6 pages

Theatre in Brazil from 1822

entry |7 pages

Theatre in Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Peru

entry |5 pages

The Theatre of the Southern Cone—Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

entry |6 pages

Contemporary Chicano Theatre

entry |2 pages

Transculturation

entry |5 pages

Translation

entry |6 pages

Spanish America

entry |3 pages

Travel Literature

entry |4 pages

Dalton Trevisan 1925–

entry |5 pages

José Triana 1931–

entry |1 pages

Tropiques

chapter |16 pages

U

entry |1 pages

Ubaldo Ribeiro, João

entry |7 pages

Uruguay

entry |5 pages

Rodolfo Usigli 1905–1979

entry |6 pages

Arturo Uslar Pietri 1906–

chapter |58 pages

V

entry |4 pages

Luisa Valenzuela 1938–

entry |5 pages

César Vallejo 1892–1938

entry |6 pages

Trilce XIX

entry |4 pages

Blanca Varela 1926–

entry |7 pages

Mario Vargas Llosa 1936–

entry |5 pages

La Casa Verde

entry |3 pages

Historia De Mayta

entry |4 pages

José Vasconcelos 1882–1959

entry |4 pages

Ana Lydia Vega 1946–

entry |7 pages

Venezuela

entry |3 pages

Érico Veríssimo 1905–1975

entry |4 pages

Xavier Villaurrutia 1903–1950

entry |4 pages

Cirilo Villaverde 1812–1894

entry |4 pages

Cecilia Valdés

entry |5 pages

David Viñas 1929–

chapter |17 pages

W

entry |5 pages

María Elena Walsh 1930–

entry |5 pages

Emilio Adolfo Westphalen 1911–

entry |2 pages

Women's Writing

entry |4 pages

20th Century

entry |4 pages

Workshops

chapter |6 pages

Y

entry |4 pages

Agustín Yáñez 1904–1980

entry |3 pages

Alicia Yánez Cossío 1929–

chapter |4 pages

Z

entry |4 pages

Juan Zorrilla De San Martín 1855–1931