“Chile, province fertile and marked / in the famed region of Antarctica / by remote nations respected / for its strength, nobility, and power” is part of the poem La Araucana, written by Alonso de Ercilla Zúñiga, and considered as the first work piece of literature in Chile. A Spanish soldier, he wrote his epic poem while he spent two years in Chile in the 16th century.
As with other dimensions of Chilean social, economic, and cultural life, literature has also been influenced by the European heritage, primarly Spanish, and by the political, cultural, and economic relevance of the Catholic Church in colonial Chile and later in Church-State debates and the evolution of Church-society relationships.
Indeed, Enlightenment ideals about what defined …show more content…
They are often associated with literature that struggles with the topics of memory and violence. Poet and essayist Marjorie Agosín is exemplary of such writers. Her work is most associated with women’s rights and Jewish-Chilean history. Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras (1987) narrates the story of the Chilean women who used arpilleras, a unique Chilean quilting style, to remember and protest atrocities during the dictatorship. Playright and essayist Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden (1990, film version 1994) places themes of violence and memory at the center of the drama. The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heros do to Our Minds (1983) is a seminal work of cultural criticism that lays bare issues of media literacy, consumerism, cultural imperialism and …show more content…
He was first recognized by his novel Los Detectives Salvajes (The Wild Detectives), “a challenging mixture of thriller, philosophical and literary reflections, pastiche and autobiography, which he baptised infrarealism”. Along his career, Bolaño received several prestigious awards, such as the Herralde and Rómulo Gallegos prizes, and in 2008, his novel 2666 was awarded as the best novel by Time magazine and by The National Book Critics Circle (Banks, 2009; Grossman, 2008). Authors such as Alejandro Zambra, Nona Fernández, and Lina Meruane, among others, have been recognized as outstanding younger
As with other dimensions of Chilean social, economic, and cultural life, literature has also been influenced by the European heritage, primarly Spanish, and by the political, cultural, and economic relevance of the Catholic Church in colonial Chile and later in Church-State debates and the evolution of Church-society relationships.
Indeed, Enlightenment ideals about what defined …show more content…
They are often associated with literature that struggles with the topics of memory and violence. Poet and essayist Marjorie Agosín is exemplary of such writers. Her work is most associated with women’s rights and Jewish-Chilean history. Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras (1987) narrates the story of the Chilean women who used arpilleras, a unique Chilean quilting style, to remember and protest atrocities during the dictatorship. Playright and essayist Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden (1990, film version 1994) places themes of violence and memory at the center of the drama. The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heros do to Our Minds (1983) is a seminal work of cultural criticism that lays bare issues of media literacy, consumerism, cultural imperialism and …show more content…
He was first recognized by his novel Los Detectives Salvajes (The Wild Detectives), “a challenging mixture of thriller, philosophical and literary reflections, pastiche and autobiography, which he baptised infrarealism”. Along his career, Bolaño received several prestigious awards, such as the Herralde and Rómulo Gallegos prizes, and in 2008, his novel 2666 was awarded as the best novel by Time magazine and by The National Book Critics Circle (Banks, 2009; Grossman, 2008). Authors such as Alejandro Zambra, Nona Fernández, and Lina Meruane, among others, have been recognized as outstanding younger