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Political, Social, and Aesthetic change marked Latin American society in the years between 1960 and 1985. In this book, senior scholar Martin Stabb explores how these changes made their way into the essayistic writings of some twenty-six Spanish American intellectuals.This exploration overturns many conventional assumptions about Latin American intellectuals and also highlights some of the other achievements of authors famous primarily for novels or short stories. It will be important reading for all students and scholars of Latin American literature.
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"Covers period dominated by the boom in the novel, in which all other genres and authors were eclipsed by a handful of novels. Restores many important texts and key aspects of Latin American culture to their rightful place. One of the singularities of this book is that it includes publications that would not be classified in a traditional canon of essay. Enriches the corpus of an already heterogeneous literature. Some authors studied are Paz, Vargas Llosa, Fuentes, Cortazar, and Garcâia Mâarquez. Work iswell written and clearly conceptualized. Required consultation for the period and the essay"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
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