Contents
  Preface
Part I The Literary Tradition and Modern Science, 1900–1921
 ONE Novelistic and Cultural Contexts at the Turn of the Century
 TWO Rereading Spanish American Classics
Part II Traditional and Modernist Aesthetics, 1922–1940
 THREE Novelistic and Cultural Contexts in the 1920s and 1930s
 FOUR Rereading Spanish American Criollista Classics
 FIVE Rereading Novels of Vanguardia
Part III The Rise of the Modernist Novel, 1941–1961
 SIX Novelistic and Cultural Contexts of Latin American Modernism
 SEVEN Rereading Spanish American Modernist Novels
Part IV Modern and Cosmopolitan Works, 1962–1967
 EIGHT Novels and Contexts of the Boom and Beyond
 NINE Rereading Novels of the Boom
 TEN Rereading the Spanish American Novel beyond the Boom
Part V Toward a Postboom, Feminist, and Postmodern Novel, 1968–1999
 ELEVEN Novelistic and Cultural Contexts in the 1970s and 1980s
 TWELVE Rereading the Spanish American Novel of the 1970s and 1980s
 THIRTEEN Modern, Postmodern, and Transnational: The Latin American Novel in the 1990s
 
  Notes
  Bibliography
  Index