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With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel ngel Asturias and Gabriel Garca Mrquez (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 writer's 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.

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• Chapter 1 Origins(p. 1)
• Chapter 2 Realism, Naturalism and Modernismo(p. 19)
• Chapter 3 Indigenism, Regionalism and the Aftermath of Modernismo(p. 45)
• Chapter 4 The 1940s, the Pre-Boom. The Changing View of the Writer's Task(p. 83)
• Chapter 5 The Boom(p. 109)
• Chapter 6 The Boom Continued(p. 132)
• Chapter 7 The Post-Boom(p. 166)
• Chapter 8 The Post-Boom Continued(p. 188)
• Chapter 9 Postmodernism(p. 211)
• Conclusion(p. 230)
• Bibliography(p. 233)
• Index(p. 249)

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More specialized than Stephen Hart's A Companion to Spanish-American Literature (CH, May'00), this volume concentrates on prose fiction of the 20th century. Shaw (Univ. of Virginia) is a leading authority in the field, and he provides penetrating analyses of canonical authors and texts and of writers such as Carmen Boullosa, Ricardo Piglia, and Diamela Eltit, all of whom garnered major recognition during the 1990s. After a brief but illuminating discussion of key 19th-century novels, Shaw examines the literary trends and patterns that developed over the decades leading up to the "pre-boom" of the 1940s (realism, naturalism, modernismo, indigenismo, regionalism, vanguard fiction). The second half of the book comprises engaging commentary on boom, postboom, and postmodern figures. Shaw boldly and correctly identifies the 1950s as the beginning of the boom. The bibliographies, especially the annotated items, offer interesting personal insights as well as useful suggestions for further reading. A related work, Naomi Lindstrom's Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction (CH, Mar'95), discusses much of the same material but is now somewhat dated. For its breadth and depth of coverage, Shaw's study is unsurpassed. A must-have, it belongs in every academic library supporting the study of Spanish American literature and culture at the upper-division undergraduate level and above. M. S. Arrington Jr. University of Mississippi

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Donald Shaw holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia