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In this survey of Central and South American literature, Earl E. Fitz provides the first book in English to analyze the Portuguese- and Spanish-language American canons in conjunction, uncovering valuable insights about both. Fitz works by comparisons and contrasts: the political and cultural situation at the turn of the fifteenth century in Spain and Portugal; the indigenous American cultures encountered by the Spanish and Portuguese and their legacy of influence; the documented discoveries of Colón and Caminha; the colonial poetry of Mexico's Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Brazil's Gregório de Matos; culminating in a meticulous evaluation of the poetry of Nicaragua's Rubén Darío and the prose fiction of Brazil's Machado de Assis. Fitz, an award-winning scholar of comparative literature, contends that at the end of the nineteenth century, Latin America produced two great literary revolutions, both unique in the western hemisphere, and best understood together.
Contents
Introduction
1. Chapter One: The Iberian Origins
2. Chapter Two: Indigenous America
3. Chapter Three: The Literature of Discovery and Conquest
4. Chapter Four: The Flowering of Latin American Letters
5. Chapter Five: The Enlightenment and Independence
6. Chapter Six: The Nineteenth Century
7. Chapter Seven: Rubén Darío, Machado de Assis, and End-of-Century Brilliance
Conclusion
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