Publisher's Synopsis
Midway through the 20th century, Pedro Enrìquez Ureña and Angel Álvarez de Miranda reflected on and took stock of the way in which Latin America had attempted storytelling through literature. The foundational stories of the 19th century were made up sometimes of the dreams of a visionary, and others from the pipe dreams of populist warlords. 20th century stories, meanwhile, tended to skip from ideas for the construction of a country on certain real foundations to laments at the oppression and exploitation of a people condemned to under-development. The themes have again changed in the 21st century, making way for globalization, cosmopolitanism, cross-cultural exchange, the marginalization of the African population, industrial development, and many others.
