Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater

by Richard A. Young and Odile Cisneros

The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela). Entries for authors, from the early colonial period to the present, give succinct biographical data and an account of the author's literary production, with particular attention to their most prominent works and where they belong in literary history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810850990
• ISBN13: 9780810850996
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 748 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"