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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
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–
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
entry |1 pages
Ubaldo Ribeiro, João
entry |7 pages
Uruguay
entry |5 pages
Rodolfo Usigli 1905–1979
entry |6 pages
Arturo Uslar Pietri 1906–
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–
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
entry |4 pages
Agustín Yáñez 1904–1980
entry |3 pages
Alicia Yánez Cossío 1929–
entry |4 pages
Juan Zorrilla De San Martín 1855–1931