Latin American literature

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cultural tradition literature regional literature

Latin American literature is the body of written works produced in the countries of Latin America, renowned for its rich blend of indigenous, European, and African influences and for movements such as the 20th-century Boom and magical realism.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Hispanic Caribbean literature	1

Statements (93)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural tradition ⓘ literature ⓘ regional literature ⓘ
developedFrom	colonial chronicles ⓘ oral traditions of indigenous peoples ⓘ
emergedIn	16th century ⓘ
hasAwardedAuthors	Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ
hasCriticalConcept	lo real maravilloso americano ⓘ surface form: lo real maravilloso magical realism ⓘ testimonio narrative ⓘ
hasGenre	drama ⓘ essay ⓘ novel ⓘ poetry ⓘ short story ⓘ
hasInfluence	African cultures ⓘ European literature ⓘ Portuguese literature ⓘ Spanish literature ⓘ indigenous cultures of the Americas ⓘ
hasLanguage	French ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ indigenous languages of the Americas ⓘ
hasMajorCountry	Argentina ⓘ Brazil ⓘ Chile ⓘ Colombia ⓘ Cuba ⓘ Guatemala NERFINISHED ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Peru ⓘ Uruguay ⓘ Venezuela ⓘ
hasMovement	Latin American Boom ⓘ avant-garde ⓘ indigenismo ⓘ magical realism ⓘ modernismo ⓘ Negrismo ⓘ surface form: negrismo post-Boom ⓘ testimonio ⓘ
hasNotableAuthor	Alejo Carpentier ⓘ Carlos Fuentes ⓘ Clarice Lispector ⓘ César Vallejo ⓘ Gabriel García Márquez ⓘ Gabriela Mistral ⓘ Isabel Allende ⓘ Jorge Amado ⓘ Jorge Luis Borges ⓘ Juan Rulfo ⓘ Julio Cortázar ⓘ Machado de Assis ⓘ Mario Vargas Llosa ⓘ Octavio Paz ⓘ Pablo Neruda ⓘ Roberto Bolaño ⓘ Rubén Darío ⓘ
hasNotableWork	Ficciones ⓘ surface form: Fictions Hopscotch ⓘ One Hundred Years of Solitude ⓘ Pedro Páramo ⓘ The Death of Artemio Cruz ⓘ The House of the Spirits ⓘ The Kingdom of This World ⓘ The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas ⓘ The Time of the Hero ⓘ Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair ⓘ
hasPeakPeriod	1960s ⓘ 1970s ⓘ
hasPeriod	19th century ⓘ 20th century ⓘ 21st century ⓘ colonial period ⓘ
hasRegion	Latin America ⓘ
hasTheme	colonialism ⓘ dictatorship ⓘ exile ⓘ memory ⓘ mestizaje ⓘ myth and folklore ⓘ postcolonial identity ⓘ revolution ⓘ social inequality ⓘ urbanization ⓘ
isKnownFor	blending of fantasy and reality ⓘ experimental narrative techniques ⓘ exploration of hybrid identities ⓘ political engagement ⓘ
isStudiedIn	Hispanic studies ⓘ Latin American studies ⓘ comparative literature ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Negrismo → emergedInContextOf → Latin American literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hispanic Caribbean literature

Alejo Carpentier → fieldOfWork → Latin American literature ⓘ

Latin America → hasCulturalProduct → Latin American literature ⓘ

The General in His Labyrinth → literaryMovement → Latin American literature ⓘ

Chronicle of a Death Foretold → partOf → Latin American literature ⓘ