A broad, sophisticated survey of the literary worlds of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking cultures of the New World. Leading scholars examine history, texts, cultural institutions, and social, political, and other contexts of the writing.
Volume 1: Configurations of Literary Culture in Latin America 1. Geographic Factors and the Formation of Cultural Terrain for Literary Production. Demographics and the Formation of Cultural Centers 2. Linguistic Diversity of Latin American Literary Cultures 3. History of the Production of Literary Cultures in Colonial Latin America 4. Access and Participation in the Literary Cultures of Latin America
Volume 2: Institutional Modes and Cultural Modalities of Literature in Latin America 1. Configurations of Socioeconomic, Racial, and Ethnic Alterity in Literary History 2. Gender and Sexual Orientation in the Historical Formation of the Cultural Imaginary
Volume 3: Latin American Literature: Subject to History 1. Religious, Scientific, and Political Discourses 2. Orality and Literature 3. The Multiplicity and Diversity of Discourses and Theatricalities 4. Transformations in Popular Culture 5. Cinema: Cultural Dialogues and the Process of Modernity