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1. HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

2. Writers and Literary Pieces During this time the pamphlet—which extolled the European conquerors—was the most prominent form of literary piece. Since Puritans exalted religiosity, many early writings during this period centered on faith, including internal struggles and hypocrisy of the faithful.

3. Notable Religious Writers

4. LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE

5. Consist of oral and written literature in several languages (Spanish, Portuguese, and the indigenous languages of the America as well as literature of the United States written in the Spanish language). 20th century saw an unmatched period of artistic accomplishment in Latin America.

6. Authors whose work contribute to the robust Latin American canon

7. 1. Pablo Neruda Garcia Marquez called Neruda “The Greatest Poet” of the 20th century in any language. His poetry is famously romantic and erotic, sometimes importing sensuality to the most quotidian of objects, as seen in works like “Ode to the Apple”.

8. “Ode to the Apple” by Pablo Neruda I want to full my mouth with you're name You, apple, are the object of my praise. I want to fill my mouth with your name. I want to eat you whole.

9. You are always fresh, like nothing and nobody. You have always just fallen from Paradise: dawn’s rosy cheek full and perfect!

10. Compared to you the fruits of the earth are so awkward: bunchy grapes, muted mangos, bony plums, and submerged figs. You are pure balm, fragrant bread, the cheese of all that flowers.

11. When we bite into your round innocence we too regress for a moment to the state of the newborn: there’s still some apple in us all.

12. I want total abundance, your family multiplied. I want a city, a republic, a Mississippi River of apples, and I want to see gathered on its banks the world’s entire population united and reunited in the simplest act we know: I want us to bite into an apple.

13. 2. Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral’s life was in many ways dedicated to teaching, although she was an autodidact whose formal education ended around age twelve. Her poetry captures not only the wide political themes of Latin American identity and progress. She remains the only female Latin American author to win the Nobel Prize.

14. 3. Octavio Paz He was a Mexican ambassador until 1968 He also wrote and spoke out frequently against the regimes of Stalin and Castro. His poetry, for which he won the 1990 Nobel Prize, often explores solitude and sensuality as well as language and silence.

15. 4. Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes taught at many United States universities. Fuentes was very politically involved and held political positions while continuing to write. His books reflect a constant political striving, interrogating the ideals of revolution, power, equality, justice, and violence. His most famous work, “ The Death of Artemio Cruz ”.

16. 5. Isabel Allende Her novels frequently blend myth and reality. She draws from the fount of magical realism that has long helped capture the Latin American experience. R egarded as a Latin American treasure and figure of world culture. W on Chile’s National Literature Prize, and also won a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

17. MAJOR THEMES Fantastic Magical Realism Social Realism Female Discourse