Donald L. Shaw

A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction

With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel ngel Asturias and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature. This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through Modernismo, Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism and protest, Spanish American fiction has evolved through successive phases in which both the conceptions of the writers task and presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations. DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.

Theatre in Latin America: Religion, Politics, and Culture from Cortes to the 1980s

1. Religion, politics and theatre: Cortes greets the Twelve Franciscans 2. Church, colonialism, and theatre in Latin America 3. Homegrown Empire: the contradictions of an emerging region 4. Religion, politics and theatre: the twentieth century and the return of ritual 5. Liberation theology and liberation theatre: the convergence of parallel lines Conclusion Appendix Latin American playwrights Bibliography Index.

Which was the first novel of the boom

La periodisation et les strategies narratives du «boom» dans la fiction hispano-americaine: La Vida Verde (1950) de J. C. Onetti, roman veritablement fondateur du mouvement