Xelajú house offers courses of critical,
interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis on the study and
literary knowledge of Guatemalan Literature and Latin America
from the influences and movements: Native, Conquista/Colonial,
Modernismo, Vanguard, Boom and Post Boom (Narrative Testimonial).
The Literature students will have a very
ample panorama on the most excellent authors from the Mayans
with the Pop Wuj; the narrations of the conquest by Pedro
de Alvarado, Fray Bartolome of the Houses, Bernald Diaz of
the Castle, Francisco Antonio de Fuentes and Guzmán,
Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz, etc; the modernist ones like
Rubén Dario, Jose Martí, Leopoldo Lugones, Horacio
Quiroa, Gabriela Mistral, Rafael Arevalo Martinez, etc; the
vanguardistas like Borge, Carpentier, Arturias, Neruda, etc;
the writers of the Boom like Garci'a Márquez, Carlos
Sources, Ernesto Cardinal, Monteforte Toledo, etc and the
writers of post boom including those of the testimonial narrative
like Arturo Aryan, Isabel Allende, Julia Esquivel, Ana Maria
Stems, Carmen Smuggling, etc.
Guatemala in spite of being a small country,
has produced excellent writers of international fame including
Rafael Arevalo Martinez, Mario Monteforte the Toledos, Arturo
Aryan *, Mario Payeras *, Otto René Castle, Miguel
Angel Asturias (father of the magico realism), Rigoberta Menchú,
etc. Both last winners of the Nobel prize de Literatura and
Paz respectively.
* winning of the prize, Houses of the Américas.
Academic credit in Literature can be obtained
by means of the University of Hattiesburg in Mississippi.
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