Volume 2 of a comprehensive history of Latin American literature: the only work of its kind.

Presents a reference on Hispanic American literature providing profiles of Hispanic American writers and their works.

With a focus both historical and literary, Enrique Anderson-Imbert surveys the literature of Hispanic America. His study is not merely an historical synthesis of names, titles, and dates; it is, rather, a critical analytical appraisal of the verse, prose, and drama written in Spanish in the Americas in the contemporary period.

A revised, updated edition of Jean Franco's "Introduction to Spanish-American Literature", first published in 1969.

This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of Latin American literature from the late eighteenth century to the present. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria covers a wide range of topics, highlighting how Latin American literature became conscious of its continental scope and international reach in moments of political crisis, such as independence from Spain, the Spanish-American War, and the Mexican and Cuban revolutions. With this narrative, the author discusses major writers ranging from Andres Bello and Jose Maria Heredia through Borges and Garcia Marquez to Fernando Vallejo and Roberto Bolano.

An anthology of Hispanic American literature, featuring the writings of Mexican American as well as Puerto Rican and Cuban American authors, organized thematically, and including historical chronicles, memoirs, ballads, folklore, poetry, drama, short stories, and novel excerpts.