intro to Spanish culture

Spanish American Literature key terms

avant-garde

vanguardia

bildungsroman

novela de aprendizaje (coming of age)

boom

auge

Cold War

la guerra fría

costumbrismo

style focused on customs and manners

criollismo

local expression

empiricism

empiricismpistemologye

epistemology

empistemología

essentialism

esencialismo

existentialism

extencialismo

feminism

feminismo

indigenism

indigenismo

magic realism

realismo mágico

modernism

modernismo

naturalism

naturalismo

new novel/ new narrative

nueva novela/ narrativa

ontology

la ontología

picaresque

picaresco

picaresque

picaresco

positivism

positivismo

postmodernism

postmodernismo

rationalism

racionalismo

realism

realismo

regionalism

regionalismo

romanticism

romanticismo

skepticism

escepticismo

surrealism

surrealismo

telluric novel

Una novel telúrica

testimonio

testimony

totalizing novel

una novela totalizadora