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 friars, as well as their
Amerindian subjects, recorded the clash of cultures that followed
the Spanish conquest. Three hundred years of colonization and the
struggle for independence gave rise to a diverse body of
literature--including the novel, which flourished in the second
half of the nineteenth century.
To give everyone interested in contemporary Spanish American
fiction a broad understanding of its literary antecedents, this
book offers an authoritative survey of four centuries of Spanish
American narrative. Naomi Lindstrom begins with Amerindian
narratives and moves forward chronologically through the conquest
and colonial eras, the wars for independence, and the nineteenth
century. She focuses on the trends and movements that characterized
the development of prose narrative in Spanish America, with
incisive discussions of representative works from each era. Her
inclusion of women and Amerindian authors who have been downplayed
in other survey works, as well as her overview of recent critical
assessments of early Spanish American narratives, makes this book
especially useful for college students and professors.
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