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Period: 2000 BCE to 3500 BCE
PRE COLUMBIAN
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original settlement of North and South America in the Upper Paleolithic period through European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492.
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1492
Mesoamerican literature
The traditions of indigenous Mesoamerican literature extend back to the oldest-attested forms of early writing in the Mesoamerican region, which date from around the mid-1st millennium BCE. -
1536
Felipe Guaman Poma
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (ca. 1535 – after 1616), also known as Huamán Poma or Wamán Poma, was a Quechua nobleman known for chronicling and denouncing the ill treatment of the natives of the Andes by the Spanish after their conquest.
Literary work - Chronicles -
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COLONIAL PERIOD
Countries such as Spain, France and Portugal colonized the region. Although most of Latin America was colonized by Spain, the countries of Portugal and France also had major influences on the region. -
Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a 17th century nun, self-taught scholar and acclaimed writer of the Latin American colonial period and the Hispanic Baroque. She was also a staunch advocate for women's rights. -
Ruben Dario
Rubén Darío, also known as ‘The Father of Modernism’, was born in the little town of Metapa on January 18th, 1867. His real name was Felix Rubén García Sarmiento. The name ‘Darío’ was adopted from a great grandfather who was well known as Darío, and his sons and daughters as ‘the Daríos’. This name became so famous that Rubén Darío’s great grandmother signed her name as ‘Rita Darío’. -
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MODERNISMO
Modernismo, late 19th- and early 20th-century Spanish-language literary movement that emerged in the late 1880s and is perhaps most often associated with the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, who was a central figure. A turning point in the movement was the publication of Azul (1888; “Blue”), Darío’s book of poems and short stories. -
Julio Cortázar
He is considered one of the most innovative and original authors of his time, a master of history, poetic prose and short story in general and a creator of important novels that inaugurated a new way of making literature in the Hispanic world by breaking the classical moulds through narratives that escaped temporal linearity. -
Gabriel García Márquez
Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. -
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist, college professor, and a former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom -
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid, Caribbean American writer whose essays, stories, and novels are evocative portrayals of family relationships and her native Antigua.
Literary work - Annie John
The essential coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. -
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RESISTANCE
Resistance literature was important because it aimed to define what the identity of a Latin American person looked like, both on an individual and national level. -
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BOOM
The Latin American Boom (Spanish: Boom latinoamericano) was a literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s when the work of a group of relatively young Latin American novelists became widely circulated in Europe and throughout the world. The Boom is most closely associated with Julio Cortázar of Argentina, Carlos Fuentes of Mexico, Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru, and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia.
