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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| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2004.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.