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The Twentieth-century Spanish American Novel by Raymond Leslie Williams

The Twentieth-century Spanish American Novel

Raymond Leslie Williams, Raymond L. Williams

University of Texas Press · Hardcover · December 1, 2004

A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century.

20th-Century Literary CriticismHispanic American Lit CritCaribbean & Latin American Criticism
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A century-wide study traces how Spanish American novels defined modernity across five distinct periods.
Genres
Caribbean & Latin American Criticism, 20th-Century Literary Criticism, Hispanic American Lit Crit
Published
University of Texas Press, December 1, 2004

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A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century.

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Indeed, the desire to be "modern" is a constant preoccupation in twentieth-century Spanish American literature and thus a very useful lens through which to view the century's novels. In this pathfinding study, Raymond L. Williams offers the first complete analytical and critical overview of the Spanish American novel throughout the entire twentieth century. Using the desire to be modern as his organizing principle, he divides the century's novels into five periods and discusses the differing forms that "the modern" took in each era. For each period, Williams begins with a broad overview of many novels, literary contexts, and some cultural debates, followed by new readings of both canonical and significant non-canonical novels. A special feature of this book is its emphasis on women writers and other previously ignored and/or marginalized authors, including experimental and gay writers. Williams also clarifies the legacy of the Boom, the Postboom, and the Postmodern as he introduces new writers and new novelistic trends of the 1990s.

Spanish American Modernity

A century-wide study traces how Spanish American novels defined modernity across five distinct periods.

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  • Five periods organized around the changing desire to be modern
  • New readings of canonical and marginalized writers

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  • Broad overviews of novels, literary contexts, and cultural debates
  • Attention to women, experimental, gay, and other marginalized writers

Where it sits

20th-Century Literary Criticism65%
Hispanic American Lit Crit58%
Caribbean & Latin American Criticism52%

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Publisher categories

  • Caribbean & Latin American Criticism
Authors
Raymond Leslie Williams, Raymond L. Williams
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Published
December 1, 2004
Format
Hardcover
Reading lane
Caribbean & Latin American Criticism