Early Spanish American Narrative / / Naomi Lindstrom.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Lindstrom, Naomi,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (247 p.)

The world discovered Latin American literature in the twentieth century, but the roots of this rich literary tradition reach back beyond Columbus's discovery of the New World. The great pre-Hispanic civilizations composed narrative accounts of the acts of gods and kings. Conquistadors and friar...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction and Background
• Chapter 1. Narrative accounts of the encounter and conquest
• Chapter 2. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: literary life in the colonies
• Chapter 3. The struggle for nationhood and the rise of fiction
• Chapter 4. The mid-nineteenth century: romanticism, realism, and nationalism
• Chapter 5. Late-nineteenth-century narratives of social commentary and national self-reflection
• Chapter 6. Naturalism and MODERNISMO
• Conclusion: Then and now
• Notes
• Selected bibliography
• Index