Ideal for students of modern Latin American literature, offers a lucid introduction to the as a genre before revealing how the journey motif works as both a plot-forming device and as a means of characterization in several of the most canonical Spanish American . In the process, the author demonstrates the overlooked importance of the travel motif in this genre. Although present in the vast majority of , if the journey is discussed at all by critics it tends to be in superficial terms. The author contends that no discussion of the Spanish American novel of formation would be complete without an exploration of travel. Yolanda A. Doub articulates the role of travel as a catalyst in the formation process of young male and female protagonists by examining in detail six representative novels from three different countries and time periods – from Argentina: Ricardo Güiraldes’s (1926) and Roberto Arlt’s (1926); from Peru: José María Arguedas’s (1958) and Julio Ramón Ribeyro’s (1960); and from Mexico: Rosario Castellanos’s (1957) and Elena Poniatowska’s (1988).weiterlesen