Open AccessHistory, Mythology, and 20th Century Latin American Fiction
Author(s) -
Jay Corwin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
theory in action
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1937-0237
pISSN - 1937-0229
DOI - 10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2126
Subject(s) - latin americans , mythology , syncretism (linguistics) , colonialism , history , literature , anthropology , sociology , classics , art , philosophy , archaeology , law , political science , linguistics
The history of the Americas from the colonial period is marked by a large influx of persons from Europe and Africa. Fiction in 20th Century Latin America is marked by ties to the Chronicles and the history of human melding in the Americas, with a natural flow of social and religious syncretism that shapes the unique literary aesthetics of its literatures as may be witnessed in representative authors of genuine merit from different regions of Latin America.