The Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape

The Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape

Author: Library of Congress. Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish Division

Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 532

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Ever since 1945, when Gabriela Mistral was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Hispanic Foundation in the Library of Congress had been looking forward to an opportunity to record her voice for posterity. She graciously accepted the invitation, despite her policy of not reading her poetry in public. The Library's recording of the Chilean poet is the only one extant. The materials accumulated since 1943 were acknowledged to be unique and of the highest quality. In 1958 the Library evolved a program for a well-integrated collection of noteworthy Hispanic literature--either verse or prose--on tape. With the aid of a generous grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, a pilot project was undertaken in the same year, September to December inclusive. The salient feature of the project was that the Library commissioned the curator of the Archive, Francisco Aguilera, to visit Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay and obtain recordings on magnetic tape expressly for the Library of Congress. During September and November 1960, Panama, Guatemala, and Mexico were visited, and in April-June 1961 collecting continued in Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.


Myth and Archive

Myth and Archive

Author: Roberto González Echevarría

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780822321941

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Discusses the theory of the origin and evolution of the Latin American narrative and the emergence of the modern novel.


The Latino Reader

The Latino Reader

Author: Harold Augenbraum

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780395765289

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"The Latino Reader" presents the full history of this important American literary tradition, from its mid-sixteenth-century beginnings to the present day. The wide-ranging selections include works of history, memoir, letters, and essays, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama.


Hispanic Immigrant Literature

Hispanic Immigrant Literature

Author: Nicolás Kanellos

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0292744722

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Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in the United States. Immigrant literature uses predominantly the language of the homeland; it serves a population united by that language, irrespective of national origin; and it solidifies and furthers national identity. The literature of immigration reflects the reasons for emigrating, records—both orally and in writing—the trials and tribulations of immigration, and facilitates adjustment to the new society while maintaining links with the old society. Based on an archive assembled over the past two decades by author Nicolás Kanellos's Recovering the U. S. Hispanic Literary Heritage project, this comprehensive study is one of the first to define this body of work. Written and recorded by people from Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America, the texts presented here reflect the dualities that have characterized the Hispanic immigrant experience in the United States since the mid-nineteenth century, set always against a longing for homeland.


The Buried Mirror

The Buried Mirror

Author: Carlos Fuentes

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780395924990

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An exploration of Spanish culture in Spain and the Americas traces the social, political, and economic forces that created that culture.


Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

Author: Verity Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 113596033X

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The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from colonial times to the present; and detailed articles on some 50 important works in this literature-those who read and studied in the English-speaking world.