What is Latin American? Literary perspectives for reflecting on our identity

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-346
Author(s):  
Iram Isaí Evangelista-Ávila ◽  
Erbey Mendoza ◽  
Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Father Figure ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Gioconda Belli ◽  
Juan Jose Arreola ◽  
Augusto Monterroso ◽  
Religious Cult

This article presents certain Latin American traits from the works of four prestigious and contemporary Latin American writers: Gioconda Belli, Gonzalo Rojas, Augusto Monterroso y Juan José Arreola. The traits discussed include politics, the religious cult, the messianic vision, family, couples and the father figure. We argue that it is very important for people to understand their own culture and identity, to explore and not abandon the conversations about their countries’ literary works, as they reflect, report and critique them.

The Use of Literary Works in Teaching Latin American Geography

1976 ◽  
Vol 75 (9) ◽  
pp. 556-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don R. Hoy ◽  
Gary S. Elbow
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
American Geography

scholarly journals Elia Saneleuterio. La agencia femenina en la literatura ibérica y latinoamericana. Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 879
Author(s):  
Rocío López-García-Torres
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Teresa De Cartagena ◽  
Sor Juana

<p><strong>La agencia femenina en la literatura ibérica y latinoamericana</strong></p><p>Autora: Elia Saneleuterio (ed.)</p><p>Editorial: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2020, ISBN: 978-84-9192-187-5, 346 pp.</p><p><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p><em>La agencia femenina en la literatura ibérica y latinoamericana</em> responde al interés científico y educativo de los estudios sobre obras literarias escritas o protagonizadas por mujeres en el ámbito español e hispanoamericano. El libro consta de veinte capítulos que abordan la caracterización de diversos caracteres femeninos en la literatura, su capacidad de elección y sus maneras de resistir en circunstancias adversas. Se seleccionan obras de todos los géneros sin excluir autoría masculina. Algunos de los autores y autoras analizados son Teresa de Cartagena, sor Juana, Pérez Galdós, Unamuno, De la Parra, Medina Onrubia, Laforet, Vitale, Martín Gaite, Matute, Aldecoa, Ferré, Allende, Porzecansky, Sierra i Fabra, Montes, Puértolas, Esquivel, Montero, Moscona, Carranza, Vallvey, Bollaín, Susana Vallejo, Baquero Cruz y Laura Gallego. </p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p><em>La agencia femenina en la literatura ibérica y latinoamericana</em> responds to the scientific and educational interest of studies on literary works written or carried out by women in the Spanish and Latin American sphere. The book consists of twenty chapters that address the characterization of various female characters in literature, their capacity for choice and their ways of resisting in adverse circumstances. Works of all genres are selected without excluding male authorship. Some of the authors analyzed in the volume are Teresa de Cartagena, Sor Juana, Pérez Galdós, Unamuno, De la Parra, Medina Onrubia, Laforet, Vitale, Martín Gaite, Matute, Aldecoa, Ferré, Allende, Porzecansky, Sierra i Fabra, Montes, Puértolas, Esquivel, Montero, Moscona, Carranza, Vallvey, Bollaín, Susana Vallejo, Baquero Cruz and Laura Gallego. </p>

Lessons on humanity: The voice of cancer patients through a literary contest.

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e24189-e24189
Author(s):  
Darío Niewiadomski ◽  
Ernesto Gil Deza ◽  
Daniela Gercovich ◽  
Lourdes Gil Deza ◽  
Claudia Lorena Acuna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Head And Neck ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Voice

e24189 Background: Most cancer narratives are provided by skilled American and British writers (Broyard, Hitchens, Jobs, Kalanithi, Pausch, Sacks, Sontag or Wishart). This paper highlights the voice of ordinary Latin American patients who wrote about their experience. Methods: Between February 2, 2019 and March 3, 2019, the first author encouraged cancer patients to narrate their experience with the disease for an online literary contest (“ www.oncologiaesperanzadora.com ”). After studying all submissions, we grouped attitudes, feelings, metaphors and descriptions used in different domains related to the course of the disease. A text-mining study was conducted to identify the context of keywords in each of the domains. Results: In total, 224 literary works were submitted to the contest. Characteristics of the population: sex F/M: 184/40; age at time of contest: 53 yo (18-82); time between diagnosis and submission to contest: 8 y (1-73); country of origin: Argentina (201), other countries (23); diagnosis: breast (130), hematological (15), colorectal (13), melanoma (6), lung (5), head and neck (5), kidney (3), other (47). The table shows keywords found in each of the domains. Conclusions: 1) Cancer patients are willing to share their story if they are given the opportunity. 2) Through the narratives of the disease, it is possible to study its impact on patients’ lives and the different coping strategies. 3) Reading the experience of patients with the disease in their own voice is a valuable instrument for medical education. [Table: see text]

A Trail of Bread Crumbs to Follow, or Gothic Rewritings of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Lina Meruane, Jorge Volpi and Mariana Enríquez

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Aurora Piñeiro
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Jorge Volpi

This article analyses postmodern Gothic rewritings of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by three Latin American writers as works in which different degrees of appropriation of themes and strategies from the classic tale, and the use of the metaphor of the magic mirror, achieve ideologically subversive effects. Gothic rewritings of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Meruane, Volpi and Enríquez denounce intolerance and present an eminent link between literary works and troubled historical contexts.

scholarly journals Gioconda Belli: The Responsibility for Writing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Valentini
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Gioconda Belli ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Metaphorical Meaning ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
The Status ◽  
Ideological Change

Gioconda Belli is one of the most refined female voices of emancipation in twenty-century Latin American literature. Since her earliest works, this Nicaraguan writer carries out her own personal revolution starting with a rethinking of the female body, which takes on a symbolic and metaphorical meaning capable of representing the profound ideological change desired by Belli. According to the author, it is necessary to rethink the female role within Latin American societies so that women can acquire the status of subjects capable of freeing themselves from the markedly subordinated image that the patriarchal universe has reserved to them. This common thread guides the reader within the author’s production and it can be found also in her latest novel, Las fiebres de la memorias (2018), in which, exceptionally, a male protagonist appears, who will be able to redefine himself only through a ‘feminization’, an enhancement of that dimension of caring for others which is generally thought of as strictly belonging to a feminine universe.

scholarly journals Monteiro Lobato e o intercâmbio literário com sul-americanos

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heloisa Sousa Pinto Netto
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Horacio Quiroga ◽  
Latin American Countries

This article deals with the interchange among Monteiro Lobato, Manuel Gálvez and Horacio Quiroga – in particular, exchanged correspondences and articles published in newspapers and magazines between 1918 and 1925, during the period Monteiro Lobato was at the head of the periodical Revista do Brasil and created his first publishing house, Monteiro Lobato & Cia. – with the aim of identifying some actions of these scholars aiming at boosting the circulation of translations of their own articles. The study also aims to highlight the efforts made towards greater integration among Latin American countries, through collections of literary works that they considered representative of their respective literatures.

scholarly journals “¿Qué sos, Nicaragua, para dolerme tanto?” Gioconda Belli and the Nicaraguan Cause”

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Silvia RocaMartinez
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The Other ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Gioconda Belli ◽  
Sandinista Revolution ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

This article traces Gioconda Belli’s trajectory as a writer, feminist, and political activist. Belli, who is known as one of the organic intellectuals of the Nicaraguan Sandinista Revolution, has consistently used her platform as one of the most renowned contemporary Latin American writers to provide a voice that transcends national borders to the Nicaraguan cause since the early 1970s. Through the analysis of some of her most notable works, some of her contributions in the national and international press, as well as social media publications, we examine the way her many roles have informed each other over the years and accomplished a two-fold goal: on the one hand, she has documented and theorized on the recent history of Nicaragua, in addition to keeping those in power in check; on the other hand, she has become one of the foremothers of Nicaraguan feminism. As this article shows, not only has she crafted—both in writing and action— a roadmap for younger generations of women, but she has also documented and influenced the evolution of feminism in Nicaragua.

scholarly journals Characteristics of la literatura: A Reference Study of Spanish and Latin American Literature

2010 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Nolen
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Shelf Life ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Insight Into

The goal of this study is to examine the characteristics of scholarly communication, with particular emphasis on the usage of the monograph, in the field of Spanish and Latin American literature over a 30-year period. In addition, this study examines the age of materials referenced in an effort to gain insight into the shelf-life of these materials. Although monographs and literary works predominated, the usage of volumes of collected essays showed significant increase. Monographs, collected essays, and journal articles published within the preceding 20–25 years were most referenced.

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