An introduction to modern fiction from Spanish-speaking Latin America. It combines an overview of the evolution of modern Latin American fiction with detailed studies of key texts and discusses such authors as Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende.
An introduction to modern fiction from Spanish-speaking Latin America. It combines an overview of the evolution of modern Latin American fiction with detailed studies of key texts and discusses such authors as Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende.
""Fictional environments..." investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting repres…
Introduction -- Conservation -- The Sertão Reconstructed: João Guimarães Rosa's Grande sertão: Veredas -- Narrative Conservation and Conservationist Narratives: Alejo Carpentier's Gran Sabana -- Development -- Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo and the Green Revolution: Modern Literary a…
"Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments"--