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Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and the indigenous languages of Latin America.
Latin American literature, the national literatures of the Spanish-speaking countries of the Western Hemisphere. Historically, it also includes the literary expression of the highly developed American Indian civilizations conquered by the Spaniards.
Latin American literature is a broad and heterogeneous category composed of voices from many countries spanning two continents. In the United States, more attention has been given to Cuban, Chicano/a, and Central American literatures than to writers from other South American countries.
While the Latin American Boom was a 20th-century phenomenon, the literary heritage from pre-Columbian times to the colonial era and independence movements cannot be overlooked. Here are six of the greatest Latin American authors to read.
Discover Latin American literature, including famous Latin American writers and novelists in various genres. Review particular works of Latin American literature. Updated: 11/21/2023.
Latin American Literature Today is a journal that seeks to reflect new realities of Spanish-language literature through a quarterly online publication.
Stream of consciousness, multiple and unreliable narrators, fragmented plots, interwoven stories, a strong influence of the cinema, and other modern techniques, ignored by the regionalist novelists, were now adopted and adapted to Latin American themes, stories, and situations.
Since its appearance in the Fall of 1972, Latin American Literary Review has published important scholarly studies in English, Spanish and Portuguese, as well as translations and literary texts.
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature is by far the most comprehensive work of its kind ever written. Its three volumes cover the whole sweep of Latin American literature (including Brazilian) from pre-Columbian times to the present, and contain chapters on Latin American writing in the USA.
In the newly revised second edition of A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, Sara Castro-Klaren delivers an eclectic and revealing set of discussions on Latin American culture and literature by scholars at the cutting edge of their respective fields. The included essays—whether they're written from the perspective of ….