The 3-volume World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia, has been released by ABC-CLIO.
Ihrie’s associate editor is Salvador A. Oropesa, of Kansas State University. Approximately 850 entries examine Spanish-language writings from the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Roughly 190 contributors (from the US, Canada, Spanish America, Spain, the Philippines and Australia) contributed to the project.
Many entries take a thematic or cultural approach; representative titles include: : ” Soccer in Literature;”” Afro-Hispanic Literature in Spanish America;” ” Chicano Movement Literature and Publishing;” ” Torture in Modern Spanish American Literature” ” Trujillo as Theme in Dominican Republic Writing; and ” Havana in Literature.”