Latin American Fiction: A Short Introduction

This book introduces readers to the evolution of modern fiction in Spanish-speaking Latin America. This work: presents Latin American fiction in its cultural and political contexts; introduces debates about how to read this literature; combines an overview of the evolution of modern Latin American fiction with detailed studies of key texts; discusses authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Isabel Allende; and, covers nation-building narratives, ‘modernismo’, the New Novel, the Boom, the Post-Boom, Magical Realism, Hispanic fiction in the USA, and more.