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The Introduction to The Oxford Handbook to the Latin American Novel presents a historical and critical frame to the essays included in the volume. It begins with a brief overview of anglophone responses to the region’s narrative: from the indifference of influential critics like Edmund Wilson and Lionel Trilling during the first half of the twentieth century; to the enthusiasm of the 1960s, under the spell of the Cuban Revolution and the novels of the so-called Boom, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude; to the cooling off of this interest after the 1970s with the Post-Boom. The Introduction also looks at the history of the region’s novel, highlighting its relationship with the earlier Peninsular narrative of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as well as with the historical texts written by Spaniard, Criollos, and Mestizos. It finally looks at the divisions and traditions that are included in the Latin American novel, such as that between Lusophone Brazil and the rest of the region, as well as that of the novel written by women and the traditions established by indigenous, Afro-Latin American, Asian-Latin American, Arab-Latin American. LGBTQ+ authors, among other groups.

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