Costa Rica Arts and Literature

Costa Rica Arts and Literature

Literature Costa Rica got its own literature unusually late for Latin American conditions. It was not until 1830 that the first printing business began. The writers who appeared in the latter half of the 19th century can be divided into two groups: an aesthetic-cosmopolitan and a realistic-regional. The latter, which came closest to reality, became […]

Cuba Arts and Literature

Cuba Arts and Literature

Literature At the beginning of the 19th century, José María Heredia was involved in a short, stormy life in Cuba’s quest for a liberation from Spain. He occasionally lived in exile. His poetry initiates romance in Cuba. This one got its main representative in Gertrude’s Gómez de Avellaneda. Cuba’s most versatile literary talent during the […]

El Salvador Arts and Literature

El Salvador Arts and Literature

Literature Spanish American modernism at the end of the 19th century produced several important poets in El Salvador: Alberto Masferrer, who was also the editor of the country’s first newspaper, La Patria, Vicente Acosta and Francisco Gavidia. The latter were friends, teachers, and forerunners of the central figure of modernism Rubén Darío in Nicaragua. Countryaah: […]

Greenland Arts and Literature

Literature From North America, the Inuit brought with them a rich oral storytelling and poetry tradition that was further developed in Greenland. From the last decades of the 19th century to the present, the Greenlanders have created extensive fiction in Greenlandic, compared to the other Inuit groups. With the colonization of 1721, the Greenlandic also […]

Argentina Arts and Literature

Argentina Arts and Literature

Literature During the Spanish conquest and colonial times, the new rulers were accompanied by chroniclers who described the country, the people and political events, for example. Luis de Miranda (“Romance”, 1541–45) and Pero Hernández (“Comentarios”, 1554). The liberation from Spain in the early 19th century brought about a national literary flourishing. The authors were influenced […]

Brazil Arts and Literature

Brazil Arts and Literature

Literature During the first period, from the 16th century to the beginning of the 18th century, the Brazilian literature consisted of descriptions of the new and unknown land, written by chroniclers, and then of works in which this virgin reality was transformed into visions, myths and a nascent national consciousness. In addition, religious poems and […]

Chile Arts and Literature

Chile Arts and Literature

Literature The Spanish war in Chile against the Araucans, an indigenous people who offered fierce resistance, is the basis of the colonial era’s first major literary work in Latin America: Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga’s historical epic “La Araucana” (1-3, 1569, 1578 and 1589). Ercilla gained many followers, some of them artistically significant. Another early […]

Colombia Arts and Literature

Colombia Arts and Literature

Literature Of the chroniclers who described the conquest of New Granada, later Colombia, in the 17th century, notably Juan Rodríguez Freile, son of a conquistador, depicting life in the colony until 1636, and bishop Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, with royal indigenous blood in the veins, who also praise the cultures that existed in Colombia before […]

Ecuador Arts and Literature

Ecuador Arts and Literature

Literature One of the great 16th-century chroniclers, Bishop Gaspar de Villaroel, hails from Ecuador. He criticized Spain’s unfair treatment of the colony and pleaded for it to be taken care of by those living there. A rich but imaginative description of Ecuador gave Father Juan de Velasco 1789 with his “Historia del reino de Quito” […]