Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-322) and index.
Contents
The nineteenth-century Latin American novel / Naomi Lindstrom -- The regional novel and beyond / Brian Gollnick -- The boom of the Latin American novel / John King -- The post-boom novel / Philip Swanson -- The Brazilian novel / Piers Armstrong -- The Caribbean novel / William Luis -- The Andean novel / Ismael Marquez -- The Central American novel / Roy C. Boland Osegueda -- Gender studies / Catherine Davies -- The lesbian and gay novel in Latin America / Daniel Balderston and Jose Maristany -- Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis / Marta Peixoto -- Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo / Jason Wilson -- The passion according to G.H. by Clarice Lispector / Claire Williams -- One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Steven Boldy -- The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende / Stephen Hart -- The war of the end of the world by Mario Vargas Llosa / Michelle Clayton -- The Latin American novel in English translation / Suzanne Jill Levine.