Earl E. Fitz is Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University and the coauthor, with Elizabeth Lowe, of Translation and the Rise of Inter-American Literature.
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Introduction 1. Chapter One: The Iberian Origins 2. Chapter Two: Indigenous America 3. Chapter Three: The Literature of Discovery and Conquest 4. Chapter Four: The Flowering of Latin American Letters 5. Chapter Five: The Enlightenment and Independence 6. Chapter Six: The Nineteenth Century 7. Chapter Seven: Ruben Dario, Machado de Assis, and End-of-Century Brilliance Conclusion Bibliography
"This book is 'old fashioned' yet visionary. Old fashioned because it is impervious to neoliberal university trends within 2000s hemispheric studies. Cutting edge because there is something truly astonishing about Fitz's four-decade-long commitment to the humanities and to literature as a comparative and multilingual field of study. It is a major work from an inter-Americanist pioneer who has served as the single greatest custodian of Literature of the Americas in print and in the classroom." - Antonio Barrenechea, University of Mary Washington, author of America Unbound: Encyclopedic Literature and Hemispheric Studies