This Powerpoint presentation is all about the Latin American Literature. It also contains the different time periods (its characteristics and authors) of the Latin American Literature

1. Latin
American
Literature

2. Latin American Literature
• It consists of the oral and written literature of
Latin America

3. Latin American Literature
• It gradually rose to particular prominence globally
during the second half of the 20th century.

4. Pre-Columbian Latin
American Literature
• Pre-columbian culture is primarily oral.
• Oral accounts of mythological and religious beliefs
were also sometimes recorded after the arrival of
European colonizers, as was the case with the Popol
Vuh.

5. Colonial Latin American
Literature
• During the colonial period, written culture was
often in the hands of the church, within which
context Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz wrote
memorable poetry and philosophical essays.

6. Colonial Latin American
Literature
• Towards the end of the 18th Century and the
beginning of the 19th, a distinctive criollo literary
tradition emerged, including the first novels such
as José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi's El Periquillo
Sarniento (1816).

7. Colonial Latin American
Literature
• The "libertadores" themselves were also often
distinguished writers, such as Simón
Bolívar and Andrés Bello.

8. 19th Century Latin American
Literature
• The 19thcentury was a periodof "foundational fictions" (in
critic Doris Sommer's words), novelsin
the Romantic or Naturalist traditions that attempted to
establish a sense of national identity, and which often focused
on the indigenous question or the dichotomy of "civilization or
barbarism",

9. Modernismo Period Latin
American Literature
• In the late 19th century, modernismoemerged, a
poetic movement whose founding text was the
Nicaraguan Rubén Darío's Azul (1888).

10. Modernismo Period Latin
American Literature
• The Venezuelan Romulo Gallegos wrote in 1929
what came to be one of the most well known Latin
American novels in the twentieth century, Doña
Barbara.

11. Post-war or Boom Period
Latin American Literature
• After World War II, Latin America enjoyed
increasing economic prosperity, and a new-found
confidence also gave rise to a literary boom. From
1960 to 1967, the major works of the boom were
published.

12. Post-war or Boom Period
Latin American Literature
• Gabriel garcia marquez → famous boom period
writer

13. Post-Boom and
Contemporary Period Latin
American Literature
• Post-Boom literature is sometimes characterized
by a tendency towards irony and towards the use
of popular genres