Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater
- ISBN-10
- 0810874989
- ISBN-13
- 9780810874985
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 748
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-12-18
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Authors
- Richard Young, Odile Cisneros
Description
The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela). Entries for authors, from the early colonial period to the present, give succinct biographical data and an account of the author's literary production, with particular attention to their most prominent works and where they belong in literary history.
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