The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945

Raymond Williams

October, 2007
Cloth, 400 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12688-5
$67.00 / £46.00

"This volume deserves a place in the libraries of institutions where Latin American literature forms part of the curriculum." — Peter Wellburn, Reference Reviews

"The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945 is a groundbreaking panoramic study. Raymond Leslie Williams discusses briefly, but with consistency, the most important aspects of each work and places each within a historical context in order to bring the reader's attention to the most important issues and themes of the writers and literary periods. This is also the first time in the literary history of Latin America that an author has included not only works written in Spanish but also works written in Brazilian Portuguese, French, English, Spanglish, and Creole. With this book, Williams breaks through linguistic and cultural barriers among Latin American nations." — Amarilis Hidalgo de Jesus, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Related Subjects

• Literary Criticism and Theory
• Reference

Series

• Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945

About the Author

Raymond Leslie Williams is a professor of Latin American literature at the University of California, Riverside, where he has served as graduate adviser, chair, and dean. He specializes in modern Latin American fiction, with particular interest in the literatures of Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil. He has been Fulbright Scholar in Colombia, and his publications focus on the writings of Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel García Márquez, as well as the literature of Colombia.Raymond Williams is professor of Latin American literature at UC-Riverside and author of The Postmodern Novel in Latin America: Politics, Culture, and the Crisis of Truth (St. Martin's, 1997); The Modern Latin American Novel (Twayne, 1998); and The 20th Century Spanish American Novel: A Critical History (Univ. of Texas Press, 2003).

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