The Latin American novel burst onto the international literary scene with the Boom era--led by Julio Cort?zar, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa--and has influenced writers throughout the world ever since. Garc?a M?rquez and Vargas Llosa each received the Nobel Prize in literature, and many of the best-known contemporary novelists are inspired by the region's fiction. Indeed, magical realism, the style associated with Garc?a M?rquez, has left a profound imprint on African American, African, Asian, Anglophone Caribbean, and Latinx writers. Furthermore, post-Boom literature continues to garner interest, from the novels of Roberto Bola?o to the works of C?sar Aira and Chico Buarque, to those of younger novelists such as Juan Gabriel V?squez, Alejandro Zambra, and Valeria Luiselli. Yet, for many readers, the Latin American novel is often read in a piecemeal manner delinked from the traditions, authors, and social contexts that help explain its evolution.
The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel draws literary, historical, and social connections so that readers will come away understanding this literature as a rich and compelling canon. In forty-five chapters by leading and innovative scholars, the Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction, helping readers to see the region's intrinsic heterogeneity--for only with a broader view can one fully appreciate Garc?a M?rquez or Bola?o. This volume charts the literary tradition of the Latin American novel from its beginnings during colonial times, its development during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, and its flourishing from the 1960s onward. Furthermore, the Handbook explores the regions, representations of identity, narrative trends, and authors that make this literature so diverse and fascinating, reflecting on the Latin American novel's position in world literature.

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

Introduction
Juan E. De Castro and Ignacio López-Calvo

Part I: History
1. The Novel in the Colonial Period
Raquel Chang-Rodríguez

2. A Picaresque Parrot and Decent Domesticity: Novel Nations in Latin America
Doris Sommer

3. The Nineteenth-century Brazilian Novel and the Transcendence of Machado de Assis
Paul Dixon

4. The Regional Novel and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution on Common Ground
Tamara L. Mitchell and Amanda M. Smith

5. Social Realism, Indigenismo, and the Vindication of the Other
Begoña 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 Beyond
Juan E. De Castro

8. The Postmodern Novel and the Postboom in Latin America
José Manuel Medrano and Raymond L. Williams

9. Latin American Narrative in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century
Ana Gallego Cuiñas

Part II: Space

10. From the Center to the Margins: Itineraries of Modernity in the Mexican Novel
Martin Camps

11. The Central American Novel
Nanci Buiza

12. Imagined Multitudes in the Spanish-Language Caribbean Novel
Mariana Bolívar Rubín

13. The Andean Novel: The (De)construction of a Written Territory
Núria 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 Century
Fernando de Sousa Rocha and Luiz Carlos Santos Simon

Part III: Race and Ethnicity

16. The Indigenous Novel: Los dolores de una raza, a Forerunner Work
Miguel Rocha Vivas

17. The Afro-Latin American Novel and the Novel about Afro-Latin Americans
William Luis

18. The Jewish-Latin American Novel
Darrell B. Lockhart

19. The Arab Latin-American Novel
Christina E. Civantos and Tracey Maher

20. The Asian-Latin American Novel
Ignacio López-Calvo

Part IV: Gender and Sexuality

21. Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Nation
Francesca Denegri

22. Twentieth-Century Women Writers and the Feminist Novel
María Rosa Olivera-Williams

23. Form and Difference in the Latin American LGBTQ Novel
Vinodh Venkatesh

Part V: Narrative Trends

24. The Latin American Historical Novel through the Lens of the Dictator(ship) Novel
Helene C. Weldt-Basson

25. Magical Realism and the Marvelous Real in the Novel
Amaryll Chanady

26. The Testimonial Novel and Autofiction
Cecilia Esparza

27. Popular Fictions and Artistic Narrative: Detective Fiction, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
Persephone Braham

28. The Experimental Novel in Latin America
Andreas Kurz

29. Historical, Critical, and Theoretical Work on the Latin American Novel
José Eduardo González

30. The Latin American Novel and New Technology
Melissa Fitch

Part V: Authors

31. The New Frontiers in the Narrative of María Luisa Bombal
Alexis Candia-Cáceres

32. José María Arguedas's Poetics of the Novel
Javier García Liendo

33. All the Novels, the Novel: Cortázar's Relentless Search for Aesthetic Freedom
Carolina Orloff

34. Mapping Juan Rulfo
Anadeli Bencomo

35. One Hundred Years of Clarice Lispector: The Star of the Hour
Claire Williams

36. Gabriel García Márquez as Local and Universalist, Traditional cum Modernist Storyteller
Gene H. Bell-Villada

37. Carlos Fuentes's Narrative Universe
Maarten Van Delden

38. Manuel Puig: Between Pop-Art and Psychoanalysis
Jorgelina Corbatta

39. Reportage, Testimony, and Biography in the Novels of Elena Poniatowska
Michael K. Schuessler

40. Mario Vargas Llosa between Literature and Politics
Sabine Köllmann
41. Transnational, Intermedial Pressures in Roberto Bolaño's Prose Poem Novels
Jonathan B. Monroe

42. Rita Indiana's Tentacled Novels
Rita De Maeseneer

Part VI: Reception

43. The Latin American Novel in English and French
Roberto Ignacio Díaz

44. The Worldwide Influence of the Latin American Novel
Nicholas Birns

45. The Latin American Novel as World Literature
Benjamin Loy

Index