A History of Colombian Literature

Table of Contents

1. Colonial realities and colonial literature in 'Colombia' Michael Palencia-Roth
2. Cosmography, ethnography, and the literary imagination of the new kingdom of Granada Elizabeth Pettinaroli
3. Colombian poetry from the colonial period to the modernismo (1500–1920) James Alstrum
4. Reflections on the historiography of the Colombian novel, 1844–1953 and beyond Kevin Guerrieri
5. Modern Colombian poetry: from modernism to the twenty-first century James Alstrum
6. The Colombian novel in the late twentieth century Raymond L. Williams and Marina Nájera
7. Twenty-first century fiction Claire Taylor and Raymond L. Williams
8. Colombian theater: staging the sociopolitical body Lucia Garavito
9. The Colombian essay Héctor Hoyos
10. Literature, culture, and society of the Magdalena Rivera Rory O'Bryen
11. The highland region as seen by an outsider inside, and an insider outside Juan Carlos González Espitia
12. Racial fictions: constructing whiteness in nineteenth-century Colombian literature Mercedes López Rodriguez
13. Literature and culture in Antioquia: between stories and accounts Juan Luis Mejía
14. Colombian marginalized literatures Valentin González-Bohórquez and Diana Dodson-Lee
15. García Márquez as public intellectual Gene Bell-Villada
16. Women writers in Colombia Claire Taylor
17. Colombian queer narrative Gina Ponde de Leon
18. Extracting nature: toward an ecology of Colombian narrative Mark Anderson and Marcela Reales
19. Visions of nature: Colombian literature and the environment from the colonial period to the nineteenth century Ana Maria Mutis and Elizabeth Pettinaroli
20. The intersections between poetry and fiction in two Colombian writers of the twentieth century: Alvaro Mutis and Dario Jaramillo Agudelo Enrique Salas-Durazo
21. Colombian literature: national treasure or fraud? Dario Jaramillo Agudelo
22. Colonial legacies and Colombian literature: postcolonial considerations Elzbieta Sklodowska.

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