Roberto González Echevarría (born 28 November 1943, Sagua La Grande, Cuba) is a Cuban-born critic of Latin American literature and culture. He is the Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale University.
The Yale Daily News reported that the Spanish and Portuguese Department under his tenure was "plagued by confusion and secrecy", with an "allegedly negative atmosphere and abuse of power within the department".[1]
Early life
González Echevarría was born in Sagua La Grande; his family moved to Havana when he was 13, and after the Cuban Revolution, his family emigrated to Tampa, where relatives on his father's side had already moved.[2]
Works
- Cervantes's Don Quixote (Yale University Press, 2015)
- Monstros e archivos (University of Minas Gerais, 2014)
- Lecturas y relecturas. Estudios sobre literatura y cultura (Capiro, 2014)
- Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2012)
- Cuban Fiestas (Yale University Press, 2010)
- Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega. Intro. Roberto González Echevarría. Trans. G. J. Racz(Yale University Press, 2010)
- Celestina by Fernando de Rojas. Intro. Roberto González Echevarría. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden (Yale University Press, 2009)
- Oye mi son: testimonios y ensayos sobre literatura hispanoamericana (Renacimiento, 2008)
- Cartas de Carpentier (Verbum, 2008)
- Love and the Law in Cervantes (Yale University Press, 2005). Spanish translation: Amor y ley en Cervantes (Gredos, 2008)
- Crítica práctica, práctica crítica (2002)
- The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball (1999)
- Celestina’s Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literatures (1993). Spanish translation: La prole de Celestina: continuidades del barroco en las literaturas española e hispanoamericana (Colibrí, 1999)
- Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative (Duke, 1990; 1998)
- La ruta de Severo Sarduy (Ediciones del Norte, 1986)
- The Voice of the Masters: Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature (1985)
- Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home (Cornell University Press, 1977; University of Texas Press, 1990)
- Relecturas: estudios de literatura cubana (Monte Avila, 1976)
- Editor, The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories (Oxford, 1997)
- Editor, Don Quixote: A Case Book (Oxford, 2005)
- Editor, Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana (Cambridge University) (Gredos, 2006)
- Co-editor, Cuba: un siglo de literatura (1902-2002) (2004)
- Co-editor, En un lugar de La Mancha: estudios cervantinos en honor de Manuel Durán (Almar, 1999)
- Co-editor, The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature (Cambridge, 1996)
References
- ^ Wang, Victor (9 September 2016). "Spanish prof on unexpected leave". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ Santiago, Fabiola (November 9, 2004). "The intellectual sports buff". The Miami Herald. Miami, Florida. p. Tropical Life 3. Retrieved February 2, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
- Homepage at Yale University.
