IDs Flashcards
Cartucho
-written by Nellie Campobello
-Mex Rev via woman’s perspective
-account of daily life during the war
-Describes soldiers’ humanity…
leaders crying
soldiers singing lullabies
playing with children.
La Araucana
-16th century poema épico in 1st p.
-Alonso de Ercilla from Spain.
-siglo de oro
-depicts Spanish conquest of Chile
-Spanish-centered view of the
conquista of a “lessers”
Mario Vargas Llosa
- Peruvian writer del Boom.
- wrote: La casa verde, La ciudad y los perros.
- explores themes of Peruvian society through the lens of his experience as a native Peruvian.
- critical of dictatorships n systems of power.
José María Heredia
-Cuban, first Romantic poet of Latin America
-AKA “El Cantor del Niagara”.
-life in exile from Spanish authorities
-Obras: “En El Teocalli de Cholula,”
it explores the universality of nature and beauty of indigenous world
Horacio Quiroga
-cuentista de Uruguay
-lile Edgar Allen Poe and Arg. Julio Cortázar
-require the work n complicity del lector
-Dreamlike and surreal
-Themes: jungle, animals, survival
Obra: Manual del perfecto cuentista, in which he sarcastic explains 10 norms to follow (rejecting realism)
“Fiesta de las balas”
- cuento de mex journalist Martín Luis Guzmán
- un retrato de Mex Rev salvaje y brutal
- Theme: violence of Pancho Villa as a rep of the Rev
- Pacho Villa como un bárbaro y de lenidad a la vez; como carismático y mortífero.
“Carta a Luis de Santangel”
- de Cristóbal Colón to his financier
- describes interactions with the natives
- impressed by generosity, they are sub-human
- Elaborates on gold n riches
- stories: big gold for correa de piel
- Abducts natives for interrogation
Naturalismo
-like realism: observable and objective reality
-the fierce power of the natural word
-nature’s power over people
-both vulgar and sublime.
-basado en la filosofia del determinismo…
man controlled por sus instintos, sus pasiones y su entorno social y económico
ex: “La compuerta número 12” de Baldomero Lillo
Alberto Fuguet
-author of McOndo movement (Macondo + MacDonalds)
-Obras: Tinta roja,Las películas de mi vida.
The McOndo movement…
beyond el mysticismo rural del Macondo, depicts modern latin urban life:
crime, poverty, mass media, globalization y las consecuencias social
Lo real maravilloso
- by cubano Alejo Carpentier in 1949
- a castro leftist, was often in prison.
- Influenced latin culture during the Boom period
- explores afro-cubanism
- For some, first bit of magical realism:
- shows the fantastic quality of Latin American nature, history and culture: so unbelievable it may be unreal.
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
- Quechua nobleman
- chronicled and denounced the terrible treatment of the natives of the Andes by the Spanish after their conquest
- Most notable work: Nueva corónica y buen gobierno.
Sueños digitales
- by Edmundo Paz Soldan
- of McOndo
- replaces aspects of magic with tech, modern focus
- follows Sebastian, a graphic designer, as he goes deeper into a dream-like conspiracy regarding the president.
El Boom
- 60’s and 70’s world-wide fame of latino writing
- Julio CortázarofArgentina
- Carlos FuentesofMexico,
- Mario Vargas LlosaofPeru
- Gabriel García MárquezofColombia.
- challenged conventions of latin lit
- influenced by European and north american modernism
- created a distinct style of lit:
- very political. often magic realist
- popular from avant-guard publishing houses in Spain, like Seix Barralin Barcelona
“Agricultura de la zona tórrida”
- epic poem by Andres Bello, a Venezuelan-chilean
- Describes latin tropics in Virgil style.
- Helped create the Código Civil de la República de Chile.
- Celebrated writer en los dos paises
El Periquillo Sarniento
- by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
- 1st latin American novel, Mex nation-building
- story: degenerate char’s life as he stumbles from one occupation to the next, despite his criollo birth.
- narrative voice: Char on death bed-
- critiques the social conditions that led to his wasteful life. The novel is funny and serious
- una inculpación of Spanish admin in Mex
- themes of ignorance, superstition and corruption
