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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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Resources in This Category

• An archaeology of the Boom

  http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/jlago/fl380/resource.htm
  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.

• Anthology of Spanish Poetry

  http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/poetry.htm
  Several poems and interesting information about Spanish grammar and phonetics.

• Ayvu Membyre

  http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/ssn/delgado.htm
  "Offspring of the Distant World", poetry in Guarani, Spanish and English by Susy Delgado.

• Cervantes and the Modern Latin American Narrative

  http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v1n1/crit_07.htm
  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.

• Complete Review of Latin and South American Literature

  http://www.complete-review.com/maindex/latam.htm
  Index of Latin and South American Literature under review, organized by author, title, genre and national origin.

• El Sur del Sur

  http://surdelsur.com/en/sections/cultural-identity/literature/
  Argentinean literature history, from 1810 to 1990.

• Famous Hispanic writers

  http://coloquio.com/famosos/writers.html
  A short list of some famous Hispanic writers with their biographies and links to related pages.

• First Light

  http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/paraguaywomen/index1.html
  An Anthology of Paraguayan Women Writers translated to English by Susan Smith Nash.

• Juan Rulfo, The Sound of Death

  http://www.inside-mexico.com/rulfo.htm
  Death as a fundamental element in Rulfian stories, an essay by Angie Galicia.

• Latin American Collection at Yale University

  http://www.library.yale.edu/latinamerica/reference_lit.html
  Guide to Latin American bibliography, literature, linguistics, journals, and general studies, organized by country.

• SAmericaWriters group

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SAmericaWriters/
  A virtual place for readers and writers interested in talking and trading information on South American writers.

• Sincronia

  http://fuentes.csh.udg.mx/CUCSH/Sincronia/zav.html
  A semiotics of film and literary fiction: classic, modern, and postmodern. By Lauro Zavala, Universidad Autónoma de México, UAM Xochimilco, Mexico City.

• The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project

  http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sorjuana/
  An electronic edition of her complete works based on the text of Adolfo Méndez Plancarte and Alberto G. Salceda.

• Tiras cómicas latinoamericanas

  http://www.zompist.com/tiras.html
  A sampling of Latin American comics, both Spanish and Portuguese, edited by Mark Rosenfelder.

• Women in Latin American Literature

  http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/latinam/mujer.html
  A selected list of narrative, poetry, drama and criticism by Latin American women.

• Zeroland

  http://www.zeroland.co.nz/latin.html
  South American literature directory. Alphabetical listing of online literary resources organized by country and author name.

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