scholarly journals History, Mythology, and 20th Century Latin American Fiction

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-16
Author(s):  
Jay Corwin
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Latin American Fiction ◽  
Natural Flow ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Syncretism

The history of the Americas from the colonial period is marked by a large influx of persons from Europe and Africa. Fiction in 20th Century Latin America is marked by ties to the Chronicles and the history of human melding in the Americas, with a natural flow of social and religious syncretism that shapes the unique literary aesthetics of its literatures as may be witnessed in representative authors of genuine merit from different regions of Latin America.

scholarly journals Benjamín Núñez Vargas y la universidad necesaria para Costa Rica

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Martín Omar Aveiro
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Practical Reason ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
Social Mediation ◽  
National University ◽  
History Of

The present work is part of a research project carried out in the National University of Cuyo about the Critic Humanism in Latin America during the second half of the 20th century. It is set in two disciplinary fields: practical philosophy and the history of Latin-American ideas. In this case, we contribute with the revision and reconstruction of Fr. Benjamín Nuñez Vargas’ thought whom we consider as critic and humanist, with catholic orientation, in our America. The focus is on categories of recognition and diversity through his philosophical and sociopolitical discourses, with special attention to his proposals for a necessary university in Costa Rica. We worked mainly on the discursive production, considering the discourses as forms of objectification of the practical reason. That is why we had recourse to a bibliographic review and the contributions of the critical theory regarding the analysis of social mediation, especially those of ideologies. We proceed in three steps: exploratory, analytic and of synthesis.

Labor Movements in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico M. Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Labor Movements ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Informal Workers ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Labor

The history of Latin America cannot be understood without analyzing the role played by labor movements in organizing formal and informal workers across urban and rural contexts.This chapter analyzes the history of labor movements in Latin America from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. After debating the distinction between “working class” and “popular sectors,” the chapter proposes that labor movements encompass more than trade unions. The history of labor movements is analyzed through the dynamics of globalization, incorporation waves, revolutions, authoritarian breakdowns, and democratization. Taking a relational approach, these macro-dynamics are studied in connection with the main revolutionary and reformist strategic disputes of the Latin American labor movements.

Language as a Key to Latin American Historiography

1955 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-539
Author(s):  
Richard M. Morse
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
New World ◽  
Old World ◽  
History Of

Latin americanists have in recent years become increasingly concerned with constructing the basis for a unified history of Latin America. Frequently this enterprise leads them to contemplate the even larger design of a history of the Americas. While the New World may still be, in Hegel’s words, “a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of old Europe,” it is now recognized as having an independent heritage; its history is no longer experienced as “only an echo of the Old World.”

Notes on Emerson in Latin America

PMLA ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Englekirk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Extended Treatment ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
Literary Relations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Good Coverage

A number of chapters—some definitive, others suggestive—have already appeared to afford us a clearer picture of the reception of United States writers and writings in Latin America. Studies on Franklin, Poe, Longfellow, and Whitman provide reasonably good coverage on major representative figures of our earlier literary years. There are other nineteenth-century writers, however, who deserve more extended treatment than that given in the summary and bibliographical studies available to date. A growing body of data may soon make possible the addition of several significant chapters with which to round out this period in the history of inter-American literary relations. Bryant and Dickinson will be the only poets to call for any specific attention. Fiction writers will prove more numerous. Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Hearn, Hart, Melville, and Twain will figure in varying degrees of prominence. Of these, some like Irving and Cooper early captured the Latin American imagination; others like Hawthorne, and particularly Melville, were to remain virtually unknown until our day. Paine and Prescott and Mann will represent yet other facets of American letters and thought.

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