Latin American History through its Art and Literature

by Jack Child

Overview

Latin American History through its Art and Literature uses 2,000 years of Latin American history as the organizing theme, and then explores that history through the words of the writer, the brush of the painter, the pen of the cartoonist, and the lens of the photographer. Child includes the Latin (Spanish/Portuguese), the African, and the indigenous cultural heritages, and shows how these strands have combined to produce a unique Latin American culture with numerous national and regional variants. The book stresses an interdisciplinary approach to Latin America and also focuses on the way the region has related to the United States. Numerous visuals are included to illustrate these concepts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761852827
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	11/04/2010
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jack Child is professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at American University. He was born of American parents in Argentina and lived in South America for eighteen years, coming to the United States to attend Yale University. After graduation from Yale, he served twenty years in the U.S. Army as a Latin American specialist, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. His courses at American University include a general education offering, "Latin America: History, Art, Literature," and this book was originally written as a text for that course.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations v

Acknowledgments ix

1 Introduction 1

2 The Geographic Setting 3

3 The Pre-Columbian Period: Overview and the Maya 13

4 The Aztecs and the Incas 23

5 The Encounter 37

6 The Conquest of Mexico 47

7 The Conquest of Peru and Chile 57

8 The Indigenous Perspective and "The Defender of the Indians" 67

9 The Colonial Baroque 77

10 Independence and Neoclassicism 93

11 Neoclassicism - Forging the New Nations 109

12 Civilization and Barbarism 121

13 Romanticism 133

14 Costumbrismo 149

15 Positivism, Realism, Naturalism 161

16 Modernismo 171

17 The U.S. Emerges 183

18 The Mexican Revolution 193

19 Early 20th Century Nationalism, Ethnic Relationships, Role of Women 211

20 Guatemalan Reform/Revolution 229

21 The Cuban Revolution; Che Guevara 237

22 Central America: Conflict and Peace 249

Chronology 261

Index 265

About the author 273