Early Spanish American narrative /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lindstrom, Naomi, 1950-
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Spanish American fiction > History and criticism. Literature and history > Latin America. National characteristics, Latin American, in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.