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Examina de forma comparativa una serie de novelas centroamericanas publicadas entre 1985 y 2006 escritas por Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Jacinta Escudos, Franz Galich, Tatiana Lobo y Dante Liano, entre otros.

Central American fiction --- History and criticism.

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"This book is a series of original, critical meditations on short stories and novels from Central America between 1995 and 2016. During the Cold War, literary art in Central America, as in Latin America in general, was strongly over-determined by the politics of the Cold War, which gave rise to popular struggle and three major armed civil wars in the 1970s and 1980s in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. The period produced intense literary activity with political ideology central, personified by social denunciation in the testimonial novel and revolutionary poetry. Since then, though themes of violence are still at much of its core, Central American fiction has become more complex. We have witnessed a resurgence of literary writing and criticism with a focus squarely on the artistic side of narrative art: writing aware of its own figurative manoeuvres and inventiveness, its philosophical and affective dimensions, and its carefully crafted syntax. This collection of essays by Jeffrey Browitt attempts to trace some of the contours of this new literature and the contemporary subjectivities of its writers through close readings of Guatemala's Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Eduardo Halfon and Denise Phé-Funchal; Nicaragua's Franz Galich and Sergio Ramírez; Belize's David Ruiz Puga; El Salvador's Jacinta Escudos and Claudia Hernández; and Costa Rica's Carlos Cortés. Key themes are gender, subjectivity and affect as these intersect with the deconstruction of the family, hegemonic masculinity, motherhood, revolutionary romanticism, and the relationship of humans with animals" --

Central American fiction --- Families in literature. --- Family in literature --- Central American literature --- History and criticism.

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"In this book, Marileen La Haije offers a thorough and innovative analysis of the intersections between madness and trauma in recent Central American literature on (post)war. A central argument of her study is that these literary texts challenge the taboo of madness in Latin American contexts of memory, by showing that talking about madness does not necessarily lead to stigmatizing victims of political violence or disqualifying their stories about traumatic experiences. La Haije highlights the importance of including madness on the research agenda in the field of memory studies in Latin America"--

Central American fiction --- Mental illness in literature. --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Collective memory in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Thematology --- Spanish-American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099

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Central American fiction --- Central American fiction --- Literature and history --- Women and literature --- Women in literature. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Alegría, Claribel --- Aguilar, Rosario, --- Belli, Gioconda, --- Lobo, Tatiana --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"In seven chapters, Craft argues for a new, generic recognition for what used to be known as 'political novels.' Discussion is generally convincing, well-researched, and occasionally revealing. The first two chapters and their conclusions are similar to accepted scholarly arguments. Craft is at her best when analyzing works by Claribel Alegría, Manlio Argueta, and Belli, in that order. More attention could have been given to Sergio Ramírez's development, which does not fit into the author's thesis, and to Rigoberto Menchú. A noteworthy error: Monterroso never wrote a book titled 'Mr. Taylor & Co.' (the actual title story is from the 1950s). The title refers to a Cuban selection of his stories"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Central American fiction --- Historical fiction, Central American --- Reportage literature, Central American --- Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Spanish Literature --- Central American reportage literature --- Central American prose literature --- Central American historical fiction --- Central American literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Alegría, Claribel --- Argueta, Manlio, --- Arías, Arturo, --- Belli, Gioconda, --- Flakoll, Claribel Alegría --- Alegría, Clarivel --- Alegría, C. --- Alegría Vides, Clara Isabel --- Criticism and interpretation.