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Latin American


Literature of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking peoples of North and South America and the Caribbean area. Its history, which originated in the 16th century in the time of the conquerors, falls roughly into four main periods. 1)Colonial, 2)Independence and National consolidation, 3)Modern and 4)Contemporary See also Arts/Literature for author or genre specific categories. Literatura de habla hispana y portuguesa procedente de Norteamérica, Sudamérica y el Caribe. Su historia se origina en el Siglo XVI, en la época de los conquistadores, y puede dividirse en, al menos, cuatro períodos 1) Colonial, 2) Independencia y consolidación Nacional 3) Moderno, 4) Contemporáneo. Vea Arts/Literature si desea buscar una categoría de autor o género específicos (en inglés).



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Some Ghostly Tales from South America - Overview of Magic Realists' short story art, written by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
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The Projection of Peronism in the contemporary Argentinean Literature of the '80s - Overview of her doctoral thesis realized by María José Punte, on Argentinean literature and the work of José Pablo Feinmann, Martín Caparrós, Jorge Andrade, Luisa Valenzuela, Carlos Gorostiza, Dalmiro Sáenz and Sergio Joselovsky.
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Pulp Fiction "The Historieta" - The case of México. Archetypes and themes. The Historieta as an instrument of political propaganda, as well as a means of social communication and source of popular entertainment, by Sergio Ulloa
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Argentine Literature History - Several web pages covering the period 1810-1990.
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Argentine Literature - Ricardo Güiraldes's novel, "Don Segundo Sombra". Overview and a passage translated from Spanish to English language.
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Guides to Latin American Studies - Sources for the study of Latin American Language and Literature, general bibliographies and electronic databases. By University of California, Berkeley.
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Latin American Collection at Yale University - Guide to Latin American bibliography, literature, linguistics, journals, and general studies, organized by country.
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SAmericaWriters group - A virtual place for readers and writers interested in talking and trading information on South American writers.
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Spanish and Latin American literature - Study guide designed for the student of Spanish or Latin American literature. It is a selected list of resource materials available in the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude - Intends to introduce Garcia Marquez and his major works, and it is dedicated specially to his masterpiece: One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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On Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude - The full text of a lecture at Malaspina College in 1995. Focuses on the following facets: magic realism, time as linear and circular history, the distinction of men and women, and its relation with Latin America.
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Sincronia - A semiotics of film and literary fiction: classic, modern, and postmodern. By Lauro Zavala, Universidad Autónoma de México, UAM Xochimilco, Mexico City.
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Women in Latin American Literature - A selected list of narrative, poetry, drama and criticism by Latin American women.
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Latin American Jewish Literature - A Bibliography of works published from 1996. Related sources about fiction, poetry, theater and film.
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The Boom In Spanish American Literature: A personal history - An overview of this Jose Donoso's book by Alexander Coleman.
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Cervantes and the Modern Latin American Narrative - An essay by Roberto González Echevarría examines how the Quijote has been re-written in Latin America and Cervantes as a figure of the author is more important than Don Quijote the character, in contrast to Spain.
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Mayan Folktales - Five traditional stories in English translation as told by Don Pedro Miguel Say of Guatemala.
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Genre Fiction - Information and links on genre fiction in Mexico and Latin America. Includes print and online magazines.
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A Writer on the Edge - An article, by Beatriz Sarlo. Concludes, in short, that there is no writer in Argentine literature more Argentine than Jorge Luis Borges.
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Highlights of Brazilian Literature - Brief information on each of the major writers of Brazil and their contributions.
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Latin American Literature at CSU - A topic guide prepared by Joanne Gass, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, California State University, Fullerton.
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Latin American Literature at UA - A guide for finding sources at the University of Arizona Library.
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The Internet: a Latin American Province - Based on his literary and cultural analysis, Roberto Hernández Montoya concludes that the Internet can be a Latin American province because its universal connections storm every frontier and place you everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
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At Home Abroad - The little-known field of Jewish Latin American Literature, an essay by Stephen Sadow.
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Tiras cómicas latinoamericanas - A sampling of Latin American comics, both Spanish and Portuguese, edited by Mark Rosenfelder.
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The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project - An electronic edition of her complete works based on the text of Adolfo Méndez Plancarte and Alberto G. Salceda.
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Essays, Plays, Poems, and Translations - Contains "Literature and Revolution" by Fernando Alegria. An essay about the authenticity of experimentation, innovation and the revolutionary dynamism of existing Hispano American narrative.
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An archaeology of the Boom - A resource page with related articles about the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez and Manuel Puig.
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Zeroland - South American literature directory. Alphabetical listing of online literary resources organized by country and author name.
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El Sur del Sur - Argentinean literature history, from 1810 to 1990.
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Biblioteca Virtual Freyre - Americanism and Latinity in Latin America: increasing interdependence and decreasing separateness, an essay by Gilberto Freyre.
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Change of Paradigm? - The new Latin American theatre and the constitution of theatrical post modernity, by Alfonso de Toro.
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Juan Rulfo, The Sound of Death - Death as a fundamental element in Rulfian stories, an essay by Angie Galicia.
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Mexican and Latin American Literature - Selected sources prepared by Laura M. Boyer, CSU Stanislaus Library.
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Latin American and Spanish Literature - General resources prepared by University of Kentucky.
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First Light - An Anthology of Paraguayan Women Writers translated to English by Susan Smith Nash.
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Ayvu Membyre - "Offspring of the Distant World", poetry in Guarani, Spanish and English by Susy Delgado.
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International Poetry Festival in Medellín - The Festival spread its lectures of poems to streets, parks, bridges, popular quarters, emplacements for the out of place by the war, theaters, museums, universities, libraries, colleges, houses of the culture, taverns, metro stations, union-trade seats and cooperatives, factories, churches, jails and hospitals, all the lectures with free access and gratuitous to the public. Calendar, events and pictures.
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HFAC - Selected Internet resources in the Literature of Spain and Portugal.
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Brazilian Cultural Page - Provides English resources for books, writers and articles from Brazil.
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NPR : Mexican Author Carlos Fuentes - Bob Edwards interviews Mexican author Carlos Fuentes about his new book, Inez. Some interesting links related to the book.
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Dalkey Archive Press: Interview with Carlos Fuentes - Travails with Time: An Interview with Carlos Fuentes By Debra A. Castillo
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Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch, Latin American Fiction, FL 380, University of Puget Sound - Reading guides for Julio Cortazar and notes about his book "Hopscotch"
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Tribute to Ruben Dario - An extensive collection of poems by Ruben Dario.
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Cesar Vallejo: the poet, the militant, the communist - A short analysis of Cesar Vallejo's career and an interview done to Miguel Gutierrez Correa about the author.
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Anthology of Spanish Poetry - Several poems and interesting information about Spanish grammar and phonetics.
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Famous Hispanic writers - A short list of some famous Hispanic writers with their biographies and links to related pages.
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Famous Hispanic writers - A short list of some famous Hispanic writers with their biographies and links to related pages.
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Complete Review of Latin and South American Literature - Index of Latin and South American Literature under review, organized by author, title, genre and national origin.
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Latin Poetry - Biographies and poetry translated into English of four writers: Piedad Bonnett, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda and César Vallejo.
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Mexican Poetry at AnaMia - A personal compendium of poetry. Includes poems by Amado Nervo, Jaime Sabines, Octavio Paz, Alfonso Reyes e Isabel Freire.
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A visible Past - Anthology of Poems on the Prehispanic Art of Mexico.
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Pages of Twentieth Century Mexican Poetry/ - An archive of modern Mexican poetry, with originals and translations into English and French.
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