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For  \ninformation write to:  \nFITZROY DEARBORN PUBLISHERS 919 North Michigan Avenue Suite 760 Chicago, Illinois  \n60611 USA  \nor  \n310 Regent Street London WIB 3AX England  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nEncyclopedia of Latin American literature 1. Latin American literature—Encyclopedias 2. Latin American literature—History and criticism—Encyclopedias I. Smith, Verity 860′.03  \nISBN 0-203-30436-5 Master e-book ISBN  \nISBN 1-884964-18-4 (Print Edition)  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data is available.  \nFirst published in the USA and UK 1997; reprinted 2001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.  \n“To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to [http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/](http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/).”  \nCover illustration: Mate en la vereda by Héctor Basaldúa. Private Collection  \nThe encyclopedia is dedicated to its contributors in the Americas, Europe, the Near East and the Antipodes. It is also dedicated to the following contributors who, alas, died before it was published: Pamela (Pam) Bacarisse, Sally Harvey, Robert Reis.  \nVERITY SMITH  \nCONTENTS  \nEditor’s Note page viii  \nAdvisers and Contributors xiv  \nAlphabetical List of Entries xviii  \nAlphabetical List of Works xxviii  \nGeneral Reading List xxx  \nEncyclopedia of Latin American Literature  \n1  \nTitle Index 1591  \nGeneral Index 1677  \nNotes on Advisers and Contributors 1728  \nLa bibliografía enumeraba cuatro volúmenes que no hemos encontradohasta ahora, aunque el tercero—Silas Haslam: Hystory of the Land Called Uqbar, 1874—figura en los catálogos de librería de Bernard Quaritch.  \nJorge Luis Borges,“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”  \nEDITOR’S NOTE  \nThe Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature contains entries on writers, works and topics relating to the literature of Latin America, including survey articles on all the continent’s individual countries. The selection of entries was made by the editor in consultation with the Advisers (listed on page xiii) .  \nThe encyclopedia is quite large but consists of only one volume. Therefore the criteria used are of the utmost importance since there is very little room for mistakes. In undertaking this truly daunting task any editor who is also a Latin Americanist is forcefully reminded of Borges’s parable about cartographers and their successive maps of the same empire which grew and grew until the final version was the same size as the empire itself. It is not possible to provide a faithful synopsis of anything and certainly not of anything as vast, protean and contentious as the “literature” of an entire continent. 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And chiefly it is the past that has been neglected in the case of this continent, partly owing to a veritable fixation by publishers, critics and readers alike with the works of authors of the so-called Boom. Co","cbCaimefSY7lbJbg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimefSY7lbJbg","pdf",8436976,1781,"English","# Editor’s Note\n## Contents overview\n## Entry structure and selection criteria\n## Scope: countries, minorities, and women writers\n## Limits and reading guidance","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature?\",\"answer\":\"It offers encyclopedia entries on writers, works, and topics related to Latin American literature, including survey articles covering each country. 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