Early Spanish American narrative / by Naomi Lindstrom.

Introduction and background : the framework of this study ; Research into Native American writing systems and narrative
Narrative accounts of the encounter and conquest
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : literary life in the Colonies
The struggle for nationhood and the rise of fiction
The mid-nineteenth century : romanticism, realism, and nationalism
Late-nineteenth-century narratives of social commentary and national self-reflection
Naturalism and modernismo
Conclusion : then and now.