Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture(Cambridge Companions to Culture Series) Book

	List of illustrations
	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Note on translations
	Chronology of major events
	Map 1: Latin America, 1830
	Map 2: Latin America, 2000
	Introduction	1
1	Pre-Columbian and colonial Latin America	9
2	Latin America since independence	28
3	Spanish American narrative, 1810-1920	60
4	Spanish American narrative, 1920-1970	84
5	Spanish American narrative since 1970	105
6	Brazilian narrative	119
7	Latin American poetry	136
8	Popular culture in Latin America	171
9	Art and architecture in Latin America	202
10	Tradition and transformation in Latin American music	236
11	The theatre space in Latin America	258
12	Cinema in Latin America	282
13	Hispanic USA: literature, music and language	314
	Index	344