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Cathy L. Jrade. Modernismo, Modernity, and the Development of Spanish American Literature. Austin. University of Texas Press. 1998. x + 193 pages. $15.95. ISBN 0-292-74049-2 (74045-X paper).

The twentieth century has been an exceptionally fertile period in the literary history of Spanish America. Each of the movements that transformed the literary landscape-the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, the "Boom" of the 1950s and 1960s, and contemporary postmodernism-owes a major debt to the brief but enormously influential tendency known as modernismo, which arose toward the end of ...