Essays and Research Papers on Latin-American Literature

This 8 page paper evaluates novels by both Latin and non-Latin authors. Authenticity of each batch of novels is discussed. The paper concludes that the novels written by Latin authors are more authentic. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 5 page discussion of the implications of male gender found in the short story by Sergio Ramirez. Typically when we consider gender we consider how the societal construct of the female gender has impacted women. In Ramirez's short story, however, we see that the societal construct of gender can also impact ...

A paper which looks at the themes of education, learning and the acquisition of wisdom in ‘Columbus in Chains’ and ‘Seeing England for the First Time’ by Jamaica Kincaid. The paper compares and contrasts the ways in which the narrators of the two stories learn to separate ideals from reality, and considers whether this contributes ...

A 7 page essay that discusses 2 books dealing with patriarchal cultures. Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Tayeb Salih in Season of Migration to the North each address societal gender paradigms that differ from those found in Western industrialized societies. Marquez's novel features life in Latin America, specifically in Colombia, ...

A 4 page paper which examines how gender is constructed in the classic “Don Quixote.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain encompassed a time of grandeur and pomposity. This 7 page paper argues that Cervantes used satire to portray the government and people of Spain as being too involved in the world. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page essay that analyzes the theme of the cyclical nature of time in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which is the epic story of the village of Macondo and the family who founded it, the Buendias. The text of the novel covers the century-long history of both the village ...

A 5 page paper which examines the combination of history and fantasy in Juan Rulfo's "Pedro Paramo." No additional sources cited.

In three pages this paper presents a thematic comparative analysis of these works. No additional sources are listed in the bibliography.

This 6 page research paper analyzes the contention that , 'Don Quixote is a failed Prospero.' Specifically discussed are the similarities and differences between Don Quixote and Prospero. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

3 pages in length. Jose Ruben Romero's "Mi Caballo, Mi Perro Y Mi Rifle" delves into the lurid history of Western European conquest over the Mexican Indians. Clearly portrayed throughout the pages of Romero's historical account is the white man's opinion that if one was not a of European descent, one was not ...

A 5 page research paper that explores how the voices of Latin American women are speaking out against the forces of oppression within their societies. The writer looks specifically at the autobiographical account of an Indian female activist, Rigoberta Menchu, that won the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize as well as the role played by the United ...

This is a 5 page paper comparing the poems and the effect of colonization in the works “A Far Cry from Africa” by Derek Walcott and “Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater” by Dionne Brand. Both are writers who feel displaced by their mixed West Indian and European backgrounds combined with their present dual nationalities in ...

5 pages. This essay focuses on the social system in Spanish America and how that social system is reflected in the novel Assault on Paradise by Tatiana Lobo. The protagonist, Pedro, has many conflicting thoughts and actions throughout the novel, from his underground resistance days in Seville, Spain, to his love affair with "The Mute" up to his last ...

5 pages focusing on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, 'Love in the Time of Cholera', and how it is intrinsically South American and whether or not this love is of the type that is worth waiting a lifetime for.

3 pages in length. Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes' 1937 novel El Indio strives to represent many things at once: political mistreatment, ethnic intolerance and cultural ignorance. While on the surface the story appears as yet another narration with regard to Western European overtaking of Indian land, it is significantly much more than that. ...

A 4 page paper which discusses the classic Spanish tale. The writer explains the author's commentary on his society and countrymen. No additional sources cited.

A 6 page paper discussing the nature of illusion and reality in Cervantes' work. The paper concludes that the conflict of reality and illusion is epitomized in the contrast between Sancho Panza and the Don himself, and that Don Quixote's vision, considered by the world to be an illusion, is in the end the truer ...

A complete 10 page overview and summary of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's contemporary novel 'Love in the Time of Cholera.' The writer identifies Marquez's usefulness of language, sharp depiction of characters, and more. No Bibliography.

A 5 page paper detailing points of the novel 'A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Focus is placed on human nature and how Marquez presents that nature. Emphasis is also placed on how fear is involved in the treatment of the angel. It is stated that common beliefs exist despite ...

4 pages in length. There are many important life lessons to be learned in A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The story tells of an angel who comes to a small, South American town masked as a broken-down, old man and describes the way the townspeople mistreat him ...

A 5 page analysis of the book by Sandra Cisneros. The writer stresses Cisneros' use of setting, both physical and cultural, in establishing the meaning and character of this somewhat autobiographical novel of a young Chicana girl's adolescence. No additional sources cited.

A complete 8 page analysis of the famous character in Spanish literature : Lazarillo de Tormes. No Bibliography.

An 8 page paper that provides an overview of Eca de Queiros' work and considers the major themes as they apply to Portuguese society of the late 19th century. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

An 8 page research paper that examines how this novel by Josa Maria Eca de Queiros reflects the life of nineteenth-century Portuguese society. The writer presents various interpretations of the novel including one proposed by New York University Professor Alexander Coleman who argues that this novel is representative of the declining Portuguese aristocracy ...