ABSTRACT
The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from colonial times to the present; and detailed articles on some 50 important works in this literature-those who read and studied in the English-speaking world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter 1A|56 pages
entry |3 pages
African-American Literature
entry |3 pages
African-Brazilian Literature
entry |3 pages
African-Caribbean Literature
entry |4 pages
Alencar, José de 1829–1877
entry |1 pages
Allende, Isabel
entry |3 pages
America
entry |4 pages
Andrade, Carlos Drummond de 1902–1987
entry |2 pages
A rosa do povo
entry |15 pages
Argentina
entry |5 pages
Arguedas, José María 1911–1969
entry |5 pages
Arlt, Roberto 1900–1942
entry |1 pages
Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de
entry |7 pages
Asturias, Miguel Ángel 1899–1974
entry |3 pages
Autobiography
entry |2 pages
Avant-Garde
entry |4 pages
Aymara Literature
entry |5 pages
Azuela, Mariano 1873–1952
letter |33 pages
B
entry |1 pages
Best-Sellers
entry |3 pages
Isabel Allende 1942–
entry |3 pages
Laura Esquivel 1950–
entry |2 pages
Bildungsroman
entry |3 pages
Boal, Augusto 1931–
entry |5 pages
Bolivia
entry |2 pages
The Boom
entry |7 pages
Borges, Jorge Luis 1899–1986
entry |12 pages
Brazil
letter |91 pages
C
entry |3 pages
Caliban
entry |2 pages
Canon
entry |4 pages
Cardenal, Ernesto 1925–
entry |4 pages
Cántico cósmico
entry |8 pages
Carpentier, Alejo 1904–1980
entry |4 pages
Castellanos, Rosario 1925–1974
entry |3 pages
Caudillismo and Dictatorship
entry |5 pages
Césaire, Aimé 1913–
entry |5 pages
Chicano Literature
entry |3 pages
Children's Literature
entry |10 pages
Chile
entry |3 pages
Civilization and Barbarism
entry |6 pages
Colombia
entry |4 pages
Colonial Literature
entry |5 pages
Colonial Literature
entry |4 pages
Colonial Literature
entry |3 pages
Concrete Poetry
entry |3 pages
Condé, Maryse 1934–
entry |3 pages
Conventual Writing
entry |7 pages
Cortázar, Julio 1914–1984
entry |6 pages
Costa Rica
entry |10 pages
Cuba
entry |4 pages
Cuban Writing in the United States
entry |3 pages
Cultural Dependency
letter |24 pages
D
entry |6 pages
Dalton, Roque 1935–1975
entry |5 pages
Darío, Rubén 1867–1916
entry |3 pages
Detective Fiction
entry |7 pages
Dominican Republic
entry |4 pages
Donoso, José 1924–1996
entry |4 pages
Dorfman, Ariel 1942–
entry |1 pages
Drummond de Andrade, Carlos
letter 207E|18 pages
entry |3 pages
Echeverría, Esteban 1805–1851
entry |5 pages
Ecuador
entry |6 pages
El Salvador
entry |2 pages
Erotic and Homoerotic Writing
entry |1 pages
Esquivel, Laura
entry |4 pages
The Essay
letter |33 pages
F
entry |4 pages
Feminism
entry |4 pages
Feminist Literary Theory
entry |7 pages
Film
entry |2 pages
Foundational Literature
entry |6 pages
Francophone West Indies
entry |6 pages
Freyre, Gilberto 1900–1987
entry |10 pages
Fuentes, Carlos 1928–
letter |41 pages
G
entry |5 pages
Gallegos, Rómulo 1884–1969
entry |10 pages
García Márquez, Gabriel 1928(?)–
entry |5 pages
El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega 1539–1616
entry |4 pages
Gelman, Juan 1930–
entry |3 pages
Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis 1814–1873
entry |7 pages
Guatemala
entry |2 pages
Guerrilla Poetry
entry |6 pages
Guillén, Nicolás 1902–1989
entry |4 pages
Guimarães Rosa, João 1908–1967
entry |3 pages
Grande sertão: veredas
letter |13 pages
H
entry |5 pages
Hernández, José 1834–1886
entry |2 pages
Herrera y Reissig, Julio 1875–1910
entry |3 pages
The Historical Novel
entry |6 pages
Honduras
letter |8 pages
I
entry |3 pages
Identity
entry |5 pages
Indianism
entry |2 pages
Indigenism
letter |22 pages
J
entry |5 pages
Jewish Writing
entry |8 pages
Journals
entry |11 pages
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651(?)–1695
letter |24 pages
L
entry |2 pages
Land and Literature
entry |3 pages
Lezama Lima, José 1910–1976
entry |8 pages
Libraries
entry |5 pages
Lispector, Clarice 1920–1977
entry |5 pages
Literacy Campaigns
entry |3 pages
Literary Theory
entry |3 pages
Loynaz, Dulce María 1902–1997
letter |52 pages
M
entry |4 pages
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria 1839–1908
entry |3 pages
Magical Realism
entry |1 pages
Marcha
entry |3 pages
Marianism
entry |9 pages
Martí, José 1853–1895
entry |4 pages
Marxism and Culture in Spanish America
entry |3 pages
Mayan Literature
entry |3 pages
Mestizo
entry |3 pages
Metafiction
entry |15 pages
Mexico
entry |5 pages
Mistral, Gabriela 1889–1957
entry |3 pages
Modernismo
entry |3 pages
Modernismo
entry |2 pages
Mulatto
entry |1 pages
Mundo Nuevo
entry |3 pages
Mysticism
entry |3 pages
Myth
letter |18 pages
N
entry |3 pages
Náhuatl Literature
entry |4 pages
Nationalism in Spanish America
entry |2 pages
Négritude
entry |5 pages
Neruda, Pablo 1904–1973
entry |3 pages
Alturas de Macchu Picchu
entry |6 pages
Nicaragua
letter 439O|9 pages
entry |3 pages
Ocampo, Victoria 1890–1979
entry |5 pages
Onetti, Juan Carlos 1909–1994
entry |3 pages
Orality
entry |1 pages
Orígines
letter |74 pages
P
entry |5 pages
Panama
entry |9 pages
Paraguay
entry |3 pages
Para-Literature
entry |3 pages
Paris
entry |4 pages
Parra, Teresa de la 1889–1936
entry |10 pages
Paz, Octavio 1914–1998
entry |3 pages
Peri Rossi, Cristina 1941–
entry |8 pages
Peru
entry |1 pages
Plural
entry |6 pages
Poniatowska, Elena 1933–
entry |5 pages
Popular Culture
entry |2 pages
Pornography
entry |3 pages
Positivism
entry |2 pages
The Post-Boom
entry |4 pages
Postmodern Writing
entry |3 pages
Prison Writing
entry |2 pages
Prizes
entry |4 pages
Protest Literature
entry |7 pages
Puerto Rico
entry |4 pages
Puerto Rican Writing in the United States
entry |6 pages
Puig, Manuel 1932–1990
entry |1 pages
Punto de Vista
letter |7 pages
Q
entry |3 pages
Quechua Literature
entry |5 pages
Quiroga, Horacio 1878–1937
letter |28 pages
R
entry |3 pages
Ramos, Graciliano 1892–1953
entry |4 pages
Regionalism
entry |3 pages
Resistance Literature in Spanish America
entry |1 pages
La Revue du Monde Noir
entry |4 pages
Reyes, Alfonso 1889–1959
entry |5 pages
Roa Bastos, Augusto 1917–
entry |6 pages
Rodó, José Enrique 1871–1917
entry |3 pages
Romanticism
entry |1 pages
Rosa, Joào Guimaráes
entry |5 pages
Rulfo, Juan 1918–1986
letter |15 pages
S
entry |7 pages
Sábato, Ernesto 1911–
entry |2 pages
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino 1811–1888
entry |2 pages
Science in Spanish American literature
entry |3 pages
Science Fiction
entry |1 pages
Sur
entry |3 pages
Surrealism
letter |26 pages
T
entry |3 pages
Testimonial Writing
entry |16 pages
Theatre in Latin America
entry |2 pages
Transculturation
entry |7 pages
Translation
entry |2 pages
Travel Literature
letter 601U|6 pages
entry |6 pages
Uruguay
letter |22 pages
V
entry |6 pages
Vallejo, César 1892–1938
entry |5 pages
Vargas Llosa, Mario 1936-
entry |5 pages
La casa verde
entry |5 pages
Venezuela
entry |5 pages
Villaverde, Cirilo 1812–1894
entry |1 pages
Vuelta
letter |6 pages
W
entry |4 pages
Women's Writing
entry |3 pages
Workshops
