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The Chilean Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature (1945), produced verse noted for its warmth and emotion. In Mexico the Contemporáneos group, including Jaime Torres Bodet (1902–74), José Gorostiza (1901–73), and Carlos Pellicer (1899–1977), was essentially an introspective group that focused on such themes as love, solitude, and death. Another Mexican, the 1990 Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz, whose metaphysical and erotic verse was influenced by French surrealist poetry, is considered one of the major post–World War II Latin American writers. Early Poems, 1935–55 was published in translation in 1973, followed by Selected Poems (1979). His volume of essays, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950; trans. 1963), exploring the Mexican character, was widely acclaimed.
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This is a survey and literary analysis of American Indian literature. The course includes creation and origin stories, legends, poetry, film, music, drama, and perhaps a performance from American Indian writers and artists.
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Contemporary Voices is Unit 12 in the full-course sequence of American literature. Unit 12 incorporates the works of several modern writers. The unit includes several writing assignments as well as class discussion, charts, and handouts.
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