Twentieth-century Ecuadorian Narrative

This study, aimed at both Latin Americanists and a larger no-Spanish-speaking audience of readers interested in literatures of the Americas, examines works by several of Ecuador's most important twentieth-century writers in terms of the interrelations of history and myth, of realism and magic, of the interacting languages and cultures and the representation of mestizaje, and the problems of using orality and dialogism to actively undermine authorative discourse.