Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater by Richard Young and Odile Cisneros, editors.ISBN: 9780810874985
Publication Date: 2010
The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with a 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 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.