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Early Spanish American narrative /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lindstrom, Naomi, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction and background : the framework of this study ; Research into Native American writing systems and narrative
  • Narrative accounts of the encounter and conquest
  • The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : literary life in the Colonies
  • The struggle for nationhood and the rise of fiction
  • The mid-nineteenth century : romanticism, realism, and nationalism
  • Late-nineteenth-century narratives of social commentary and national self-reflection
  • Naturalism and modernismo
  • Conclusion : then and now.