Postmodern Novel

     Postmodern La Paz, Bolivia

    Postmodern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Postmodern fiction in Latin America has roots in the writings of Borges (in the 1940s) and Cortazar (in the 1960s). Professor Williams began
writing about the Latin American novel within the context of international postmodern fiction in the 1980s, and began teaching a series of graduate seminars on "Postmodern Fiction in Latin America" in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the end of his book THE COLOMBIAN  NOVEL, he outlined modern and postmodern tendencies in the Colombian novel. As an outgrowth of that book and the seminars, he published THE POSTMODERN NOVEL IN LATIN AMERICA. The first chapter of that book follows:

Chapter 1 of THE POSTMODERN NOVEL IN LATIN AMERICA, pages 1-20