The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel

This Handbook charts the literary tradition of the Latin American novel from its beginnings during colonial times, its development during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, and its flourishing from the 1960s onward. Forty-five chapters by leading international scholars explore the regions, representations of identity, narrative trends, and authors that make this literature so diverse and fascinating, reflecting on the Latin American novel's
position in world literature.