Latin American History Through Its Art and Literature

by Child, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780761852827
• ISBN10: 0761852824
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-04
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Geographic Setting	p. 3
The Pre-Columbian Period: Overview and the Maya	p. 13
The Aztecs and the Incas	p. 23
The Encounter	p. 37
The Conquest of Mexico	p. 47
The Conquest of Peru and Chile	p. 57
The Indigenous Perspective and "The Defender of the Indians"	p. 67
The Colonial Baroque	p. 77
Independence and Neoclassicism	p. 93
Neoclassicism - Forging the New Nations	p. 109
Civilization and Barbarism	p. 121
Romanticism	p. 133
Costumbrismo	p. 149
Positivism, Realism, Naturalism	p. 161
Modernismo	p. 171
The U.S. Emerges	p. 183
The Mexican Revolution	p. 193
Early 20th Century Nationalism, Ethnic Relationships, Role of Women	p. 211
Guatemalan Reform/Revolution	p. 229
The Cuban Revolution; Che Guevara	p. 237
Central America: Conflict and Peace	p. 249
Chronology	p. 261
Index	p. 265
About the author	p. 273
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