LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Articles
Periods (Postclassical-E Modern-19th-20th)Genres (Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
Literary Works
North America
MEXICO
Cruz, Sor Juana Ines de la(1648-1695) INUNDACION CASTALIDA(1689)Altamirano, Ignacio Manuel(1834-1893) EL ZARCO, THE BANDIT(1901)Azuela, Mariano (1873-1952) UNDERDOGS (1915)-FLIES(1918)Traven, B.(1882-1969) DEATH SHIP (1926)Fernandez De Litardi, Jose Joaquin(1776-1827) ITCHING PARROT (1816)Yanez, Agustin(1904-1980) EDGE OF THE STORM (1947)Galarza, Ernesto(1905-1984) BARRIO BOY(1971)Paz, Octavio(1914-1998) LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE (1950)Rulfo, Juan(1917-1986) PEDRO PÁRAMO(1955)Fuentes, Carlos (1928-2012) WHERE THE AIR IS CLEAR (1958)-DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ (1962)-OLD GRINGO (1985)Esquivel, Laura(1950- ) LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE(1989) Middle America
GUATEMALA
Asturias, Miguel Angel(1899-1974) SENOR PRESIDENTE, EL(1946)
NICARAGUA
Dario, Ruben(1867-1916) PROSAS PROFANAS, AND OTHER POEMS(1896)
Islands
ANTIGUA
Kincaid, Jamaica(1949- ) ANNIE JOHN(1985)
CUBA
Carpentier, Alejo(1904-1980) EXPLOSION IN A CATHEDRAL(1962)Hijuelos, Oscar(1951-2013) OUR HOUSE IN THE LAST WORLD(1983)-MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE (1989) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Rhys, Jean(1890-1979) WIDE SARGASSO SEA(1966)Alvarez, Julia(1950- ) HOW THE GARDA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS(1991)-IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES(1994)
GUADELOUPE
Condé, Maryse (1937- ) SEASON IN RIHATA, A(1981)
HAITI
Peck, Raoul (1953- ) LUMUMBA (2000)Dancicat, Edwige(1969- ) FARMING OF BONES (1998)
MARTINIQUE
Fanon, Frantz(1925-1961) WRETCHED OF THE EARTH (1961)
South America
ARGENTINA
Hernandez, José(1834-1886) GAUCHO MARTIN FIERRO (1872-1879)Hudson, W. H(1862-1922) GREEN MANSIONS(1904)Sánchez, Florencio(1875-1910) FOREIGN GIRL (1904)Güiraldes, Ricardo(1886-1927) DON SEGUNDO SOMBRA(1926)Borges, Jorge Luis(1899-1986) FICCIONES(1944)Mallea, Eduardo(1903-1982) FIESTA IN NOVEMBER(1938)-BAY OF SILENCE (1940)Cortazar, Julio (1914-1984) PURSUER (1959)-WINNERS (1960)-HOPSCOTCH (1963)Puig, Manuel(1932-1990) KISS OF THE SPİDER WOMAN(1976)
BRAZIL
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria(1839-1908) EPITAPH OF A SMALL WINNER(1881)-PHILOSOPHER OR DOG?(1891)-DOM CASMURRO(1899)Lins Do Rego, Jose(1901-1957) PLANTATION BOY(1932-1934)Amado, Jorge(1912-2001) VIOLENT LAND(1942)-GABRIELA, CLOVE AND CINNAMON(1958)-DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS(1966)Lispector, Clarice(1920-1977) PASSION ACCORDING TO G. H. (1964)Coelho, Paulo(1947- ) ALCHEMIST (1988)
CARIBBEAN AND WEST INDIES
Cesaire, Aime(1913-2008) CADASTRE(1961)-TRAGEDY OF KING CHRISTOPHE (1963)Naipaul, V. S.(1932-2018) HOUSE FOR MR. BISWAS, A(1961)-IN A FREE STATE(1971)-BEND IN THE RIVER, A(1979)
CHILE
Barrios, Eduardo(1884-1963) BROTHER ASS(1922)Mistral, Gabriela(1889-1957) TALA(1938)Neruda, Pablo(1904-1973) HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU (1946)-CANTO GENERAL(1950)Allende, Isabel(1942- ) HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS(1982)-DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE(1999)Donoso, Jose(1925-1996) OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT (1970)
COLOMBIA
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (1927-2014) NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL (1961)-LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (1985)-
ECUADOR
Icaza, Jorge(1906-1978) VILLAGERS (1934)
PERU Vallejo, César(1892-1938) SPAIN, TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME(1939)Alegria, Ciro(1909-1967) BROAD AND ALIEN IS THE WORLD(1941)Vargas Llosa, Mario(1936-) GREEN HOUSE(1965)-CONVERSATION IN THE CATHEDRAL(1969)
VENEZUELA
Gallegos, Romulo(1884-1969) DOÑA BÁRBARA (1929)
Periods (Postclassical-E Modern-19th-20th)Genres (Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
Literary Works
North America
MEXICO
Cruz, Sor Juana Ines de la(1648-1695) INUNDACION CASTALIDA(1689)Altamirano, Ignacio Manuel(1834-1893) EL ZARCO, THE BANDIT(1901)Azuela, Mariano (1873-1952) UNDERDOGS (1915)-FLIES(1918)Traven, B.(1882-1969) DEATH SHIP (1926)Fernandez De Litardi, Jose Joaquin(1776-1827) ITCHING PARROT (1816)Yanez, Agustin(1904-1980) EDGE OF THE STORM (1947)Galarza, Ernesto(1905-1984) BARRIO BOY(1971)Paz, Octavio(1914-1998) LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE (1950)Rulfo, Juan(1917-1986) PEDRO PÁRAMO(1955)Fuentes, Carlos (1928-2012) WHERE THE AIR IS CLEAR (1958)-DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ (1962)-OLD GRINGO (1985)Esquivel, Laura(1950- ) LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE(1989) Middle America
GUATEMALA
Asturias, Miguel Angel(1899-1974) SENOR PRESIDENTE, EL(1946)
NICARAGUA
Dario, Ruben(1867-1916) PROSAS PROFANAS, AND OTHER POEMS(1896)
Islands
ANTIGUA
Kincaid, Jamaica(1949- ) ANNIE JOHN(1985)
CUBA
Carpentier, Alejo(1904-1980) EXPLOSION IN A CATHEDRAL(1962)Hijuelos, Oscar(1951-2013) OUR HOUSE IN THE LAST WORLD(1983)-MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE (1989) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Rhys, Jean(1890-1979) WIDE SARGASSO SEA(1966)Alvarez, Julia(1950- ) HOW THE GARDA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS(1991)-IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES(1994)
GUADELOUPE
Condé, Maryse (1937- ) SEASON IN RIHATA, A(1981)
HAITI
Peck, Raoul (1953- ) LUMUMBA (2000)Dancicat, Edwige(1969- ) FARMING OF BONES (1998)
MARTINIQUE
Fanon, Frantz(1925-1961) WRETCHED OF THE EARTH (1961)
South America
ARGENTINA
Hernandez, José(1834-1886) GAUCHO MARTIN FIERRO (1872-1879)Hudson, W. H(1862-1922) GREEN MANSIONS(1904)Sánchez, Florencio(1875-1910) FOREIGN GIRL (1904)Güiraldes, Ricardo(1886-1927) DON SEGUNDO SOMBRA(1926)Borges, Jorge Luis(1899-1986) FICCIONES(1944)Mallea, Eduardo(1903-1982) FIESTA IN NOVEMBER(1938)-BAY OF SILENCE (1940)Cortazar, Julio (1914-1984) PURSUER (1959)-WINNERS (1960)-HOPSCOTCH (1963)Puig, Manuel(1932-1990) KISS OF THE SPİDER WOMAN(1976)
BRAZIL
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria(1839-1908) EPITAPH OF A SMALL WINNER(1881)-PHILOSOPHER OR DOG?(1891)-DOM CASMURRO(1899)Lins Do Rego, Jose(1901-1957) PLANTATION BOY(1932-1934)Amado, Jorge(1912-2001) VIOLENT LAND(1942)-GABRIELA, CLOVE AND CINNAMON(1958)-DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS(1966)Lispector, Clarice(1920-1977) PASSION ACCORDING TO G. H. (1964)Coelho, Paulo(1947- ) ALCHEMIST (1988)
CARIBBEAN AND WEST INDIES
Cesaire, Aime(1913-2008) CADASTRE(1961)-TRAGEDY OF KING CHRISTOPHE (1963)Naipaul, V. S.(1932-2018) HOUSE FOR MR. BISWAS, A(1961)-IN A FREE STATE(1971)-BEND IN THE RIVER, A(1979)
CHILE
Barrios, Eduardo(1884-1963) BROTHER ASS(1922)Mistral, Gabriela(1889-1957) TALA(1938)Neruda, Pablo(1904-1973) HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU (1946)-CANTO GENERAL(1950)Allende, Isabel(1942- ) HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS(1982)-DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE(1999)Donoso, Jose(1925-1996) OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT (1970)
COLOMBIA
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (1927-2014) NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL (1961)-LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (1985)-
ECUADOR
Icaza, Jorge(1906-1978) VILLAGERS (1934)
PERU Vallejo, César(1892-1938) SPAIN, TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME(1939)Alegria, Ciro(1909-1967) BROAD AND ALIEN IS THE WORLD(1941)Vargas Llosa, Mario(1936-) GREEN HOUSE(1965)-CONVERSATION IN THE CATHEDRAL(1969)
VENEZUELA
Gallegos, Romulo(1884-1969) DOÑA BÁRBARA (1929)