Naomi Lindstrom is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also affiliated with the Program in Comparative Literature.

• Acknowledgments Introduction and Background The Framework of This Study Research into Native American Writing Systems and Narrative 1. Narrative Accounts of the Encounter and Conquest 2. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Literary Life in the Colonies 3. The Struggle for Nationhood and the Rise of Fiction 4. The Mid-Nineteenth Century: Romanticism, Realism, and Nationalism 5. Late-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Social Commentary and National Self-Reflection 6. Naturalism and ModernismoConclusion: Then and Now Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Early Spanish American Narrative is based on careful scholarship, but provides an accessible introduction to the Spanish-language literature of the Americas for the general reader as well as for scholars. (Southwest BookViews)

Naomi Lindstrom is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also affiliated with the Program in Comparative Literature.

• Acknowledgments Introduction and Background The Framework of This Study Research into Native American Writing Systems and Narrative 1. Narrative Accounts of the Encounter and Conquest 2. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Literary Life in the Colonies 3. The Struggle for Nationhood and the Rise of Fiction 4. The Mid-Nineteenth Century: Romanticism, Realism, and Nationalism 5. Late-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Social Commentary and National Self-Reflection 6. Naturalism and ModernismoConclusion: Then and Now Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Early Spanish American Narrative is based on careful scholarship, but provides an accessible introduction to the Spanish-language literature of the Americas for the general reader as well as for scholars. (Southwest BookViews)

Naomi Lindstrom is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also affiliated with the Program in Comparative Literature.

• Acknowledgments Introduction and Background The Framework of This Study Research into Native American Writing Systems and Narrative 1. Narrative Accounts of the Encounter and Conquest 2. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Literary Life in the Colonies 3. The Struggle for Nationhood and the Rise of Fiction 4. The Mid-Nineteenth Century: Romanticism, Realism, and Nationalism 5. Late-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Social Commentary and National Self-Reflection 6. Naturalism and ModernismoConclusion: Then and Now Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Early Spanish American Narrative is based on careful scholarship, but provides an accessible introduction to the Spanish-language literature of the Americas for the general reader as well as for scholars. (Southwest BookViews)