The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel

Juan E. De Castro is a professor of literary studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. He is the author of Writing Revolution in Latin America: From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño and Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui, among other works.Ignacio López-Calvo is Presidential Chair in the Humanities, Director of the Center for the Humanities, and Professor of Literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of more than one-hundred articles and book chapters, as well as nine single-authored books and seventeen essay collections. His latest books are The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, Performance, Saudades of Japan and Brazil: Contested Modernities in Lusophone Nikkei Cultural Production; Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Tusán Literature and Knowledge in Peru; and The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru.

• Acknowledgments Contributors IntroductionJuan E. De Castro and Ignacio López-Calvo Part I: History1. The Novel in the Colonial PeriodRaquel Chang-Rodríguez 2. A Picaresque Parrot and Decent Domesticity: Novel Nations in Latin AmericaDoris Sommer 3. The Nineteenth-century Brazilian Novel and the Transcendence of Machado de AssisPaul Dixon 4. The Regional Novel and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution on Common GroundTamara L. Mitchell and Amanda M. Smith 5. Social Realism, Indigenismo, and the Vindication of the OtherBegoña Pulido Herráez 6. The New Novel in Latin America (1920-1950)Philip Swanson 7. The Latin American Novel in the 1960s and Early 1970s: The Boom and BeyondJuan E. De Castro 8. The Postmodern Novel and the Postboom in Latin AmericaJosé Manuel Medrano and Raymond L. Williams 9. Latin American Narrative in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First CenturyAna Gallego Cuiñas Part II: Space 10. From the Center to the Margins: Itineraries of Modernity in the Mexican NovelMartin Camps 11. The Central American NovelNanci Buiza 12. Imagined Multitudes in the Spanish-Language Caribbean NovelMariana Bolívar Rubín 13. The Andean Novel: The (De)construction of a Written TerritoryNúria Vilanova 14. The Southern Cone Novel (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay)Gorica Majstorovic 15. The Brazilian Novel: An Outline from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first CenturyFernando de Sousa Rocha and Luiz Carlos Santos Simon Part III: Race and Ethnicity 16. The Indigenous Novel: Los dolores de una raza, a Forerunner WorkMiguel Rocha Vivas 17. The Afro-Latin American Novel and the Novel about Afro-Latin AmericansWilliam Luis 18. The Jewish-Latin American NovelDarrell B. Lockhart 19. The Arab Latin-American NovelChristina E. Civantos and Tracey Maher 20. The Asian-Latin American NovelIgnacio López-Calvo Part IV: Gender and Sexuality 21. Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the NationFrancesca Denegri 22. Twentieth-Century Women Writers and the Feminist NovelMaría Rosa Olivera-Williams 23. Form and Difference in the Latin American LGBTQ NovelVinodh Venkatesh Part V: Narrative Trends 24. The Latin American Historical Novel through the Lens of the Dictator(ship) NovelHelene C. Weldt-Basson 25. Magical Realism and the Marvelous Real in the NovelAmaryll Chanady 26. The Testimonial Novel and AutofictionCecilia Esparza 27. Popular Fictions and Artistic Narrative: Detective Fiction, Science Fiction, and FantasyPersephone Braham 28. The Experimental Novel in Latin AmericaAndreas Kurz 29. Historical, Critical, and Theoretical Work on the Latin American NovelJosé Eduardo González 30. The Latin American Novel and New TechnologyMelissa Fitch Part V: Authors 31. The New Frontiers in the Narrative of María Luisa BombalAlexis Candia-Cáceres 32. José María Arguedas's Poetics of the NovelJavier García Liendo 33. All the Novels, the Novel: Cortázar's Relentless Search for Aesthetic FreedomCarolina Orloff 34. Mapping Juan RulfoAnadeli Bencomo 35. One Hundred Years of Clarice Lispector: The Star of the HourClaire Williams 36. Gabriel García Márquez as Local and Universalist, Traditional cum Modernist StorytellerGene H. Bell-Villada 37. Carlos Fuentes's Narrative UniverseMaarten Van Delden 38. Manuel Puig: Between Pop-Art and PsychoanalysisJorgelina Corbatta 39. Reportage, Testimony, and Biography in the Novels of Elena PoniatowskaMichael K. Schuessler 40. Mario Vargas Llosa between Literature and PoliticsSabine Köllmann41. Transnational, Intermedial Pressures in Roberto Bolaño's Prose Poem NovelsJonathan B. Monroe 42. Rita Indiana's Tentacled NovelsRita De Maeseneer Part VI: Reception 43. The Latin American Novel in English and FrenchRoberto Ignacio Díaz 44. The Worldwide Influence of the Latin American NovelNicholas Birns 45. The Latin American Novel as World LiteratureBenjamin Loy Index

The reader will basically have in their hands a contemporary master's degree education, in the Latin American novel. Valuable writers who have been marginalized by racism, sexism, classism, etc., are included and studied alongside the most famous names. Almost any novel of importance can be found in the index, and it is studied from diverse angles in the various chapters. The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel will occupy an important place on the shelves of books in English on Latin American literature and it will be the starting point [for those] interested with staying up to date with literary discussions about the Latin American novel in the future.