The literature of Latin America has always defied homogeneity-and the first decades of the 20th century were no exception. This program studies artistic responses to Modernismo that accompanied a deepening appreciation of local cultural currents forming across the region-currents that, however disparate, were flowing into a shared identity. The forces that paved the way for a new avant-garde, replacing traditional means of discourse with a fractured and anxiety-ridden worldview, are analyzed. The concept of novelas de la tierra or "novels of the land" is addressed, as are the writings of Alcides Arguedas, Horacio Quiroga, Jose Eustasio Rivera, Romulo Gallegos, Martin Luis Guzman, Gregorio Lopez Fuentes, Rafael Munoz, Nelly Campobello, and numerous others.
The literature of Latin America has always defied homogeneity-and the first decades of the 20th century were no exception. This program studies artistic responses to Modernismo that accompanied a deepening appreciation of local cultural currents forming across the region-currents that, however disparate, were flowing into a shared identity. The forces that paved the way for a new avant-garde, replacing traditional means of discourse with a fractured and anxiety-ridden worldview, are analyzed. The concept of novelas de la tierra or "novels of the land" is addressed, as are the writings of Alcides Arguedas, Horacio Quiroga, Jose Eustasio Rivera, Romulo Gallegos, Martin Luis Guzman, Gregorio Lopez Fuentes, Rafael Munoz, Nelly Campobello, and numerous others.
General Note
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 08, 2008.
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Content Note
Regionalism: Prelude (1:13) -- Latin American Literature: Realism vs. Regionalism (2:23) -- Regionalist Literature in Latin America (3:57) -- Novelist Ricardo Giraldes: Rural Utopia (1:09) -- A Novel of Naturalism and Realism: "The Vortex" (5:37) -- Venezuelan novelist Rmulo Gallegos (3:53) -- Horacio Quiroga: Latin American Author and Writer (4:07) -- Latin American Novels of Revolution (5:01) -- Novelist Predecessors to the Latin American Boom (1:20) -- Latin America: Indigenist Literature (4:42) -- Enduring Indigenist Latin American Novels (2:10) -- Peruvian Writer Alcides Arguedas (3:34) -- Pluralist Culture: Alcides Arguedas's "Deep River" (3:39) -- Regionalism: Postlude (1:07).
