While Japanese internees were all released from the camps after the war, the Peruvian government rejected the return of the Takahashi family (like most other Japanese Peruvian internees), and because they were not American citizens and their entry in the United States was not “legal,...
Wheelock’s Latin has become the standard text for many American introductory Latin courses.The Living Latin movement attempts to teach Latin in the same way that living languages are taught, i.e., as a means of both spoken and written communication. It is available at the Vatican, and at ...
Rulfo was such a perfectionist that, in addition to a collection of film scripts, he published only these two books, which secured his place in Latin American literary history. During the second half of the 20th century, the poets Pablo Neruda (Chile) and Octavio Paz (Mexico) and the ...
Latin American literature, the national literatures of the Spanish-speaking countries of the Western Hemisphere. Historically, it also includes the literary expression of the highly developed American Indian civilizations conquered by the Spaniards. Over
Alberto Ginastera was a leading 20th-century Latin-American composer, known for his use of local and national musical idioms in his compositions. Ginastera was musically talented as a child and studied in Buenos Aires at the Conservatorio Williams and th
Gregory Rabassa was an American translator who was largely responsible for bringing the fiction of contemporary Latin America to the English-speaking public. Of his more than 30 translations from the Spanish and the Portuguese, the best known is Gabriel
At the beginning of the 6th century Alcaeus and Sappho, composing in the Aeolic dialect of Lesbos, produced lyric poetry mostly in the metres named after them (the alcaic and the sapphic), which Horace was later to adapt to Latin poetry. No other poets of ancient Greece entered into so ...
These poets reacted against the grandiose—the Ennian tradition of “gravity”—and their complicated allusive poetry consciously emulated the Callimacheans of 3rd-century Alexandria. The Neoteric influence persisted into the next generation through Cornelius Gallus to Virgil. Virgil, born near Mantua ...
The first introduction of the Laozi in Latin America occurred with the fascination toward Oriental culture that emerged at the beginning of the 20th century in different Latin American countries. This fascination contributed to shaping a particular form of Orientalism that can be called Hispanic Orienta...
As the moving spirit behind the program, Bardi worked closely with local poets and musicians—some of whom were involved in the first experimental opera productions a decade later. In fact, the 1589 intermedi had many of the same players and almost all the ingredients of opera—costumes, ...