Gathered to meet the rise in interest in Latin America literature, this collection features major critical articles dealing with the authors and texts customarily taught in colleges and universities in the United States. The articles are in English and Spanish, with a predominance of the former. The material is organized to reflect the common chronological and period divisions of academia, and is clustered around major literary figures, with a mix of general articles on writers and articles on the texts that are most commonly included in anthologies.