Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

The striking cover illustration, Mate en la vereda by Hector Balsadua, marks this hefty, weighty volume out as being primarily about cultures at once European and yet non‐European. One expects to find within something new, distinctive, colourful, exotic. This expectation is realized, in full measure, in this outstanding triumph of collective scholarship. Verity Smith of Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London) is clearly a prodigy. She has conjured up and solidly shaped a splendid reference work of enormous scope and authority. It must surely be one of the finest of its type, and destined for years to come...