Bibliography
Recommended background reading (this is an indicative list and you may well find other appropriate sources online as there is certainly a lot of criticism on these authors available).
• Catherine Davies, The Companion to Hispanic Studies
• Philip Swanson, The Companion to Latin American Studies;
—Latin American Fiction;
—The New Novel in Latin America
—Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction
• Donald L. Shaw, The Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction;
—The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction;
—Nueva narrativa hispanoamericana
• Raymond L. Williams, The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel;
—The Postmodern Novel in Latin America
• John King, Modern Latin American Fiction;
—The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture
• Efraín Kristal, The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel
• D.P.Gallagher, Modern Latin American Literature
• Naomi Lindstrom, Twentieth-century Spanish American Fiction
• Stephen Hart, A Companion to Spanish American Literature;
—The Companion to Latin American Cultural Studies
—Stephen Hart and Wen-chin Ouyang, A Companion to Magical Realism
• Verity Smith, Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
• Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo-Walker, Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
• Gerald Martin, Journeys through the Labyrinth
• Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy Faris, Magical Realism
• W. Fowler, Latin America 1800-2000: Modern History for Modern Languages (London: Arnold / OUP, 2002)
• J. Franco, Spanish American Literature since Independence (London: Benn, 1973)
• E. Camayd-Freixas, Realismo mágico y primitivismo: Relecturas de Carpentier, Asturias, Rulfo y García Márquez (Oxford: University Press of America, 1989)
• R. González Echevarría, Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
• G. Fernández Ariza (ed.), Literatura hispanoamericana del siglo XX: memoria y escritura (Málaga: Universidad de Málaga, 2002)
• G. Fernández Ariza (ed.), Literatura hispanoamericana del siglo XX. Literatura y arte Málaga: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Málaga, 2008)
• B. Harlow, Resistance Literature (New York: Methuen, 1987)
• J. Calviño Iglesias, Historia, ideología y mito en la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporánea (Madrid: Ayuso, 1987)
• J. Stubbs Brushwood, The Spanish American Novel: A Twentieth Century Survey (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975)
• R. L. Williams, The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003)
• E.H. Williamson, The Penguin History of Latin America, chaps. 8, 9, 15 (Harmondsworth: Penguin Allen Lane, 1992)
• R. Wright, Stolen Continents: 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas (London: Phoenix, 2000)
• L. P. Zamora, The Usable Past: the Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Asturias
• Miguel Angel Asturias, El Señor Presidente, critical edition, ed. R. Navas Ruiz
• Richard J. Callan, Miguel Angel Asturias
• Teresa Rodríguez, La problemática de la identidad en El Señor Presidente de Miguel Angel Asturias
• René Prieto, Miguel Angel Asturias’s Archaeology of Return
• Stephen Henighan, Assuming the Light: The Parisian Literary Apprenticeship of Miguel Angel Asturias
• J. J. Barrueto, ‘Latin American Indian Re-Reads the Canon: Postcolonial Mimicry in “El Señor Presidente”’, Hispanic Review, Vol. 72, No. 3, (Summer, 2004), pp. 339-356
• R. J. Callan, ‘Babylonian Mythology in “El Señor Presidente”’, Hispania, Vol. 50, No. 3, (Sep., 1967), pp. 417-424
• J. Himelblau, ‘El Señor Presidente: Antecedents, Sources, and Reality’, Hispanic Review, Vol. 41, No. 1, (Winter, 1973), pp. 43-78
• J. A. Rosado, El presidente y el caudillo: mito y realidad en dos novelas de la dictadura: La sombra del caudillo, de Martín Luis Guzmán y El señor presidente, de Miguel Ángel Asturias (México, D.F.: Ediciones Coyoacán, 2001)
• M. Rosello, ‘El Señor Presidente: “Moi, la Vérité je parle”’, Modern Language Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, (Summer, 1990), pp. 92-99
García Márquez
• Philip Swanson, The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel García Márquez
— Cómo leer a Gabriel García Márquez
• Raymond Williams, A Companion to Gabriel García Márquez
• Michael Bell, Gabriel García Márquez
• Robin Fiddian, García Márquez
• Bernard McGuirk and Richard Cardwell, García Márquez: New Readings
• Gabriel García Márquez, 100 Years of Solitude (Landmarks of World Literature). Foreword and detailed introduction by Micheal Wood.
• Micheal Bell, Gabriel García Marquez: Solitude and Solidarity (Baskingstoke: MacMillan, 1993)
• Ariel Dorfman, Some Write to the Future: Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction, trans. by George Shiver (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991), 201-221
• Peter Earle, Gabriel García Márquez (Madrid: Taurus, 1981)
• Roberto González-Echevarria, ‘Cien años de soledad: The Novel as Myth and Archive’, in Modern Language Notes, 99:2 (1984), pp. 358-80
• Regina Janes, One hundred years of solitude: Modes of reading, (Boston, Mass: Twayne's masterworks studies, 1991)
• James Higgins, ‘Gabriel García Márquez: Cien años de soledad’, in Swanson, Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction (London: Routledge, 1990)
• Susan. J. Levine, El espejo hablado: Un estudio de ‘Cien años de soledad’ (Caracas: Monte Avila, 1975)
• Josefina Ludmer, ‘Cien años de soledad’: Una interpretación (Buenos Aires: Tiempo Contemporáneo, 1972)
• Graciela Maturo, Claves simbólicas de García Márquez (Buenos Aires: García Cambeiro, 1972)
• Steven Minta, Gabriel García Márquez, Writer of Colombia (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987)
• George R. McMurray, Gabriel García Márquez (New York: Ungar, 1977)
─ Critical Essays on Gabriel García Márquez (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987)
• Kathleen McNerney, Understanding Gabriel García Márquez (Columbia: South Carolina UP, 1989)
Allende
• Harold Bloom, Isabel Allende
• Linda Gould Levine, Isabel Allende
• Patricia Hart, Narrative Magic in the Fiction of Isabel Allende
• Sonia Riquelme Rojas and Edna Aguirre Rehbein, Critical Approaches to Isabel Allende’s Novels
• Lloyd Davies, Allende: La casa de los espíritus (Grant and Cutler: Critical Guides to Spanish Texts).
• Marcelo Coddeu, ‘La casa de los espíritus y la historia’ (JSTOR)
• Sandra M. Boschett ‘Dialéctica metatextual y sexual en La casa de los espíritus de Isabel Allende’ (JSTOR)
• Doris Meyer, "Parenting the Text": Female Creativity and Dialogic Relationships in Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus (JSTOR)
• Sharon Magnarelli, "Framing Power in Luisa Valenzuela's Cola de lagartija [The Lizard's Tail] and Isabel Allende's Casa de los espíritus." [The House of the Spirits] in Splintering darkness: Latin American women writers in search of themselves , ed. Lucia Guerra Cunningham.
• Marcelo Coddou, ed., Los libros tienen sus propios espíritus: Estudios sobre Isabel Allende (Xalapa, Mexico: Universidad Veracruzana, 1987)
• R.G. Feal & Y.E. Miller, eds., Isabel Allende Today, [special issue of Latin American Literary Review, 60 (2002)]
• Susan Frenk, ‘The Wandering Text: Situating the Narratives of Isabel Allende’, in Latin American Women’s Writing: Feminist Readings in Theory and Crisis, eds. Amy Brooksbank Jones & Catherine Davies (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)
• R-R. García Johnson, ‘The Struggle for Space: Feminism and Freedom in The House of the Spirits’, in Revista Hispánica Moderna 67:1 (1994), pp. 184-93
• Gabriela Mora, ‘Las novelas de Isabel Allende y el papel de la mujer como ciudadana’, in Ideologies and Literature, II (1987), pp. 53-61
• Philip Swanson, ‘Tyrants and Trash: Sex, Class and Culture in La casa de los espíritus’, in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 71:2 (1994), pp. 217-37
• Cristina Ruis Serrano, ‘Paradigmas patriarcales en el realismo mágico: alteridad femenina y ‘feminismo mágico’ en La casa de los espíritus de Isabel Allende y Los recuerdos del porvenir de Elena Garro’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 88: 6, 2011, pp. 863-885.
• Karen Wooley Martin, Isabel Allende's 'House of the spirits' trilogy: narrative geographies
Woodbridge: Tamesis (2010).
• Susan R. Frick, ‘Memory and Retelling: The Role of Women in La casa de los espíritus’, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 7:1 (2001), pp.27-41.